This was an interesting and informative book about a piece of history I didn't know much about. Off to watch the movie! 🍿
This was an interesting and informative book about a piece of history I didn't know much about. Off to watch the movie! 🍿
Gladstone will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts 👏🤩👍.
Nine nominations...zero take homes, yet there was still a wonderful win (as in a winning performance) for this film at the 2024 Oscars: the Scott George and the Osage Singers Perform 'Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)'
Wow, Beautiful 👏🤩👍.
As usual, it's difficult for me to pick just 3, but here are 3 of my favorite non-fiction books:
1. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
2. The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
3. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
#ItTakesAllKinds Day 6: #TrueCrime that I hope to get into soonest especially after watching the movie on Apple TV.
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Lily Gladstone.
This book was remarkably fascinating. I love picking up a book with no preamble… to find that I‘m hooked early on.
It‘s nonfiction
Multiple mysteries, coverups, murder.
I‘d read more.
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3.75⭐️ I really liked the book. I really liked the first two parts of the book, but am kinda ho-hum about the final part. I did a combo read with the audiobook and it very likely coloured how I felt about the book. Found it very interesting. #2024 #nonfiction #indigenious #truestory #truecrime
I am embarrassed to say that I bought this book when it first came out and never got around to reading it until now, having viewed the film adaptation of this a week ago. What an incredible story! I actually preferred the way the book was set up, as it allowed me to better understand all the characters and the conspiracy itself. David Grann is a master storyteller, and has the ability to discuss history in a way that keeps the pages turning.
True crime. Interesting, sad story of Osage history. Beginning of FBI. Hard to keep my attention though as it went into a lot of details into side stories, such as investigators' lives.
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My #jolabokaflod package from @TheKidUpstairs. Sorry for the late post.
Thanks for Maleficent Book Dragon for hosting.
@WildAlaskaBibliophile and I do our own #jolabokaflod exchange each year. Her gifts are on the left, mine on the right. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate 📯🎄🎀
A few years ago my book club picked this and I thought the first few pages were boring and didn‘t read it. Then last month my new book club picked it and i decided to try again. It‘s fine.
First time watched the movie first and the read the movie because feeling that some stories were untold and some details were not clear in the movie. Then, indeed the book makes the story full but is heavier than the movie.
Grateful to know the history although it saddened me.
Shocking to know that this happened and I don't remember ever hearing about it. Informative and heartbreaking.
Incredible, the movie did a disservice to Anna
Phew!!! What a brilliantly researched, tragic tale of abuse of power, murder and deceit. I watched the movie and also read the book, and each has done such a fantastic job. The movie picks the central story and doesn‘t deviate from the script but the book gives so much more context, the before and after, delving into all other lives. Phenomenal research and writing. This is a story that is devastating & will stay with me for a long long time.
This is the heartbreaking true crime account of the widespread, brutal murder of wealthy Osage tribe members for their head rights.
An incredible, and sad account of how the Osage Native Americans were systematically murdered for their oil money in Oklahoma- after being evicted from their homes in Kansas, Nebraska, & Arkansas.
#AmericanIndianHeritageMonth
I listened to the book and then saw the movie. The movie was extremely well done, but a slow long three hours.
#TheBookWasBetterThanTheMovie
I‘d been meaning to finish this by the time the movie came out but unfortunately couldn‘t line up my reading just right! Nevertheless, reading this now & finding it so interesting! Plus, peep the amazing bookmark that‘s *just* right for this book!
Very well written book. The first section is a little slow but it provides the background for the rest of this story. Hard to stomach this story and it really left me with a lot of questions.
This is a really well done true crime story. I‘m curious about the movie. Has anyone gone to see it yet? #scarathlonphotochallenge #kill #blackcatcrew
Even if the style and writing of this nonfiction book is so-so, the story behind it is gripping. Grann investigates the Osage Indian Murders at their height in 1920s northern Oklahoma, where the Osage have become the rich owners of mineral rights in a land that has just struck an oil boom. Human vultures soon come to prey upon this new wealth, introducing an onslaught of corruption and killing gone unpunished due to their victims being non-white.
Watches for today for #Scarathlon Team #HHC
Enjoyed Killers of the Flower Moon in the theater, and watched 2 more episodes of Bodies-not sure I‘m going to finish, it became dull.
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This was good and historically educational. I did not know about these murders in the Osage tribe. Glad I had a chance to listen to the audiobook before watching the movie. Crazy the audiobook already has movie images on the cover in my library app.
We are watching this movie today 🎥 Has anyone seen it yet??
https://youtu.be/1oZUCkJEuvo
The normalized, widespread, and systematic murder of the Osage for their oil rights by a significant proportion of the white community of Osage County, Oklahoma is yet another awful chapter in American history. This book is chilling and well-written. I hope the movie captures the dread.
Maybe reading this just now wasn‘t the best idea as I am feeling overwhelmed at how evil people can be. I plan to see the movie, but am wondering how 2 hours can do justice to this complicated story. By-the-way, the book is very good!
🛢️🦬Prepping for the Scorsese picture.
Didn‘t have expectations going in, just that my Oma recommended it because I liked another Native American book. This non-fiction book was powerful and stunning in devious ways. Forget the fbi start, but that we erased another horrible thing from US history. Slow read because of material, yet rapt attention. My heart aches to hear what happened again to Natives. This indicted passionate anger. Worth the hype.
Devastating, infuriating, & kind of mind-blowing because of the vast machinery in place that makes so many of these deaths open-ended cases. I thought Grann does a great job of trying to put the pieces together to forge a narrative, but it does also feel like there a huge gaps—that he alludes to—because of missing sources. It just made me so mad that it's open knowledge but there's no justice. I'm really looking forward to the movie.
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This whole book was 🤯🤯🤯🤯 - I‘m really glad Sharon McMahon chose it for this semester‘s book club because there is so much to discuss!
I knew absolutely nothing about the Osage people & the Reign of Terror they lived through in the early 1900s.
Very well researched & the writing style kept me engaged the whole time - overall just really impressive.
I would have called this book “The Osage Genocide,” because so many more were killed than justice addressed at the time. When oil was discovered under the reservation & the Osage became extraordinarily wealthy, laws were passed that treated the Native Americans as incapable of handling their own affairs. White men became their guardians, pocketing their overpriced fees & committing untold corruption. But that wasn‘t enough—the white men wanted ⬇️
My next audiobook. #letterK #litsyatoz
The level of criminality and conspiracy to defraud and acquire wealth through dubious and malicious means from Native Americans is quite astounding. This is a vital piece of American history that needs to be told. This work from David Grann has the potential to become one of the central texts of US History. Well written and very educational book
Parts of this book were very interesting. I learned a lot about the Osage Indians, and about the birth of the FBI. I found other parts of this book very mundane, as I do with much non-fiction. I feel for these people and can‘t believe the atrocities that they endured, all for the quest for oil and money. Things were very bad for them during the time that this book portrayed. Unfortunately, I don‘t think much has improved for them since then.
An interesting and sad part of our history. I knew nothing about this tragic story and so glad I read this. It angers you and it‘s upsetting of what happened. Well researched and written by the author.
The history of the West collides with organized crime and conspiracy in this non-fiction account that reads like a crime novel. An unsettling read that exposes more examples of crookery and corruption in 20th Century American History.
Backlist books have been working for me recently, and this flippin gem 💎 is no exception. This is *exactly* how I like my nonfiction: propulsive, smart, jaw dropping, complete with pictures, and so incredibly well written. Grann has a new book about some topic I have no interest in, but I‘ll be reading it because he. is. that. good! 👏
🎧📖 When I saw that Scorsese has a movie coming out soon, I just had to read it first. A sad part of history.
Re-read for book club. Still good the second time around, but also a tragic story.
This was a very interesting and horrifying true crime history of one of the biggest crimes in US History, which many of us never learned about in history class. I was a very entertaining read, and I definitely recommend this on audiobook as it moved very quickly. There are a few small qualms, like the jumping around the timeline. However, it is an important story and I‘m glad I read it.⬇️
More hard decisions deciding my top book of July between Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann and Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood. And an even harder decision between How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis and Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki which are definitely my top 2 reads of the year.
@chasjjlee
An incredible, important, horrifying account of the serial murders of the Osage during the 1920s. It's both difficult and not to believe white people would kill their own Indigenous family members for money, but that's exactly what happened when oil made members of the Osage incredibly wealthy at the turn of the twentieth century. The story follows Mollie who lost multiple family members under suspicious circumstances and the FBI investigation.
"In April, millions of tiny flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma."
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
I used my day off to rearrange books on bookshelves. I moved all my #botm books that are not on my TBR carts to this bookshelf. And then I thought I might as well show off the pretty sprayed edges on some of those FairyLoot books.
Also listening to Killers of the Flower Moon while I rearrange. It's fascinating!
I borrowed this audiobook to prepare for the upcoming Scorsese flick. I‘m sad I didn‘t know anything about this chapter in US history. This seems to have conveniently been forgotten about by the broader society. This was a very informative book, and if I have any complaint, it‘s tone should have been harsher regarding how the nation‘s treatment and laws regarding native Americans resulted the Osage being cheated of their rights and murdered.