The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | 
pickGave me a craving for more short stories - any recommendations? (Especially by native folk?)
Books - making bus rides better since forever.
"Thomas Builds-the-Fire knew about sickness. He'd caught some disease in the womb that forced him to tell stories. The weight of those stories bowed his legs and bent his spine a bit." - Sherman Alexie
"...Witnesses. They were all witnesses and nothing more. For hundreds of years, Indians were witnesses to crimes of an epic scale...one Indian killing another did not creates special kind of storm. This little kind of hurricane was generic. It didn't even deserve a name." -Sherman Alexie
For #riotgrams, I only had two choices for “Native and Indigenous Reads”: Sherman Alexie or Louise Erdrich. This is one area that I need to be better at actually reading authors from these cultures and populations. I really only have to open my Nook app for this one. @bookriot
Some of these stories I've read elsewhere, but Alexis is always worth re-reading. #Sancho agrees! #dogsoflitsy
Signal boost to Sherman Alexie. If you haven't already read anything by him: get to it! #currentlyreading #lgbtqa
I did a thing...spent the afternoon working on this, and think it turned out pretty good!
It will probably take me forever to get through this, but hopefully it will motivate me to make progress on a small portion of the unread books I already own.
#tbrbingo
"At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future."
This book is gonna sucker punch me isn't it?
pickInterconnected short stories of life and love on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Every bit the style, humor, and heartbreak you expect from Alexie. His prose reads like poetry.
I highly recommend this one.
I've had this book on my shelf for probably 12 years, I was supposed to read it for a class that I don't even remember the name of. WHY DID I NOT READ IT! It's so good. I am forcing myself to go to sleep, but I want to keep reading.
pickDark, funny, painful, beautiful. 4.5 ⭐️
"SA: Describing my book as 'magical realism' does make me feel like a witch doctor in blue jeans... Isn't all fiction (and nonfiction) magical realism? Aren't we all making shit up, and if we do it well enough, it can feel surreal...
JW: What feels surreal to me are those stories of kids growing up on the Upper East Side, going to summer camp, then prep school, then choosing between Harvard and Yale . . . sci-fi."
#junebookbugs Day 7 I found this on my husband's shelves and added it my TBR. #indigenousauthors
From the prologue: "My mullet said to the literary world, 'Hello, you privileged prep school assholes, I'm here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales.'"
I absolutely adore Sherman Alexie! When I saw today's #JuneBookBugs prompt was #IndigenousAuthors, this was the first book that came to mind!
@RealLifeReading
Been meaning to read Sherman Alexie for a long time now. Today is the day🙂📚🐈
#catsoflitsy
pick"Although it was winter, the nearest ocean four hundred miles away, and the Tribal Weatherman asleep because of boredom, a hurricane dropped from the sky in 1976 and fell so hard on the Spokane Indian Reservation that it knocked Victor from bed and his latest nightmare." #firstlines
AP Lit is in analysis mode: reading "Witnesses, Secret and Not" and discussing this passage about diabetes. Beautifully written, disturbing, true.
Right on, Sherman Alexie.
pickAnother autographed copy and Indigenous Book Club Month Pick. Wonderfully, painfully realistic tales of Native life. The story of Thomas and Victor in this inspired the classic Native movie Smoke Signals.
Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
Arnold did not wear braids. He could not sit long enough for his mother. "be still, be still", she would say between her teeth. But Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.
