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Blasphemy
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories | Sherman Alexie
13 posts | 15 read | 1 reading | 9 to read
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.
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JenniferSpiegel
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Heartbreaking

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Alurayne

"But all the years have changed more than the shape of our blood and eyes. We wear fear now like a turquoise choker, like a familiar shawl." -Sherman Alexie

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Alurayne

"And then the guy realizes he can tell me anything precisely - because- he doesn't know me. He realizes that any stranger can be your priest." - Sherman Alexie

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Suet624
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Who wouldn't want to win a big pile of books?? Thanks for the opportunity, Liberty. Here's what I'm reading this weekend. 💕(Please don't hold it against me that the photo is so bland.). #stackedup

Cinfhen I covet both your current reads! ❤️ 7y
Suet624 @Cinfhen 😂😂😂 Truly, they are both so good. 💕 7y
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Suet624
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"I was conceived during one of those drunken nights, half of me formed by my father's whiskey sperm, the other half formed by my mother's vodka egg. I was born a goofy reservation mixed drink, and my father needed me just as much as he needed every other kind of drink."

vivastory Are you enjoying this book? 7y
Suet624 @vivastory Oh yes. I love his writing and while I've read some of these stories already I have reread them with the same interest. I have a big crush on him. 7y
vivastory @Suet624 He's the most charismatic writer I've ever seen in person. I was supposed to see him in a few weeks, unfortunately it was cancelled. I haven't read Blasphemy, but I love his stories in Lone Ranger etc. 7y
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Suet624 @vivastory I'm envious that you've seen him in person and was very sorry to read that he had to cancel his recent tour. My heart goes out to him. 7y
vivastory @Suet624 Have you read his memoir? 7y
Suet624 @vivastory no, not yet. Waiting for the library to order it. I've heard him speak about it on Terry Gross. I assume you have? Did it rip your heart out? 7y
vivastory @Suet624 Not yet. I'm picking up a copy next week. It sounds really difficult. 7y
Suet624 @vivastory maybe I'll put a rush on finding it. We can commiserate together. 7y
vivastory @Suet624 I'll tag you when I start it 7y
Suet624 @vivastory perfect. 7y
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Suet624
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Three thousand fingers fondling anything on my body sounds nice, but okay, maybe not my brain.

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Suet624
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Sherman Alexie, Colm Toibin, Sam Shepard, Howard Norman, Jon Katz, Parker Palmer. I didn't stand a chance at the library. Had to grab them all. Loigman is new to me.

vivastory Great stack! 7y
saresmoore Yay! We suffer from the same affliction! 😆 7y
Suet624 @saresmoore oh yes we do. 🤓🤗😇😳👏🏼 7y
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Suet624 @vivastory Thanks! Now which book should I read first? 7y
vivastory I'd go with the Alexie 7y
Suet624 @vivastory Alrighty then. Alexie it is. 7y
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charl08
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This isn't a library, it's an orphanage...

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charl08
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Alexie makes me laugh.

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aryman
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"Stand up, woman, I thought, stand up and kick out your demons". - Sherman Alexie

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SuperPunkNinja
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This is just one of my To Be Read stacks. Yes, it goes all the way to the ceiling. I can't even get a shot of the whole thing. I've probably got 200 to 300 books waiting to be read and it keeps growing every day!