Welcome to Litsy!

• 336 pages • first pub 2018 • historical fiction • Native American • reflective • 3.5 Stars

In Amanda Skenandore's provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging. ⬇️

This is a historical fiction piece based in the late 1800s of a white girl Alma who grew up at the boarding school for Native Americans her father opened. Alma finds herself torn between the two cultures, and finding herself questioning everything. Very well written.

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A fascinating book diving into the history of assimilation schools for Native Americans around the turn of the century. Alternately entertaining and challenging, romantic and practical. I enjoyed the level of detail and immersion into the native culture. The writing isn‘t fantastic but is good enough. I‘m thankful for the reminder that no culture needs to rescue another culture and society‘s “progress” is not wholly positive.

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Since it‘s the last day of June, I‘m pretty sure I‘m not going to be finishing anymore books this month so here is my June Read list. I couldn‘t choose a favorite so the tagged book is the first one I finished.

This book follows Alma going from her past as a white child in an assimilation boarding school to the present (1906) where one of her childhood friends, Henry (or Asku), is charged w/the murder of a fed agent.

The story is really about Alma coming to terms with what happened during her time at the boarding house and the treatment of Native Americans.

It wasn't always a comfortable read but it was enlightening and heartfelt.

#historicalfiction

“His fingers trailed across the silk-wrapped cover, as if it were the soft skin of a liver. He opened the book, brought the pages to his nose, and inhaled.”

This is the proper way to receive a book! #imabooksnifferandnotafraidwhoknowsit

Last night I hit the elliptical and shower before bed. Tonight I‘m reading with some herbal tea.

Tonight I‘m being proactive in the fight against insomnia. Did a little bit of a work out, took a shower and used my lavender lotion, and now I‘m going to finish winding down with my book.

Finished Midnight Crossroad in a fit on insomnia last night so I can now start my Once Upon a Book Club box May book Between Earth and Sky.

I have paused my series because my first Book Club box came in! Thank you @Rae2

Not always easy to read but I really enjoyed this moving & compelling historical novel set in the 1890s & 1906. Abyoung woman gets her lawyer husband to try & help her childhood friend, a Native American man on trial for murder. Told in past & present, around a boarding school created to assimilate NA children into white culture--tragic history I knew little about. With 3 Sisters Succotash & wild rice for my book tour review & GIVEAWAY. Link👇🏻

I actually finished this one yesterday and I'm reviewing it tomorrow on the blog, but who can resist a cute Max 🐱pic? Plus he pointed out that he hasn't made a Litsy appearance in s few days.😼
#catsoflitsy 😽❤️

#ReadingResolutions #FictionFriday

Ending my Friday evening with some historical fiction based around the effects of the attempted assimilation of Native American children into white American culture in the late 1800s. I'm starting it tonight as I'm on a blog book tour for it next week. I have a feeling this will be a tough, sad read so I'm fortifying my soul with Tim Tams & Honeybush Caramel Tea. 😥 #wildfridaynight

A remarkably poignant, slow paced novel about the tragic attempts to assimilate Native American children from the 1880s through the beginning of the 20th century. Highly recommend to any American Historical Fiction fans out there. This one will stick with me for a while. 😪

https://velvetspadebooks.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/between-earth-and-sky-amanda-s...

✨ A big thanks to #TLCBookTours for providing a copy of #betweenearthandsky by #amandaskenandore in exchange for an honest review. I absolutely adored this #historicalfiction novel. Link to full review: http://angelerin.blogspot.com/2018/05/between-earth-and-sky-by-amanda.html?m=0 ✨

Starting this book tonight! This one counts toward my April reading Challenge word Nature!

While slow in places, this book ultimately surprised me with its poignance. This is the story of Alma, a white girl, told in alternating chapters of her life from ages 7 to 32. She spent 7-17 (1881-91) growing up in her missionary father‘s off-reservation boarding school for Indian children. It‘s a story of friendships and first love, of heartache/heartbreak, and of damage and loss caused by “assimilation.” There will be tears. Highly recommend.

What a way to begin...

Up next, this ARC from #NetGalley and #KensingtonBooks that is described as a “provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging.” I‘m in! 👍😊 #CoverLove ❤️

#ReadingResolutions #bookmarks 📚📬Mondays are always made better by #bookmail. Today was bountiful with two novels for book tour reviews, plus a bookmark from the lovely @BarbaraTheBibliophage for subscribing to her blog. (Mahalo Barbara!) 😘 I love how everything is in warm earth tones today.