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Finished this morning for #SundayBuddyRead this is not a book that I normally would choose or even knew anything about but I found myself caught up in it. The writing is bleak & beautiful & a lot unfolds in 160 pages. I found myself both frustrated with & rooting for our unnamed narrator, a young Native American man, living on the res in Montana. Of course the usual careful research & discussions led by Christine made it come to life.

#sundaybuddyread I had never heard of this author and I‘m quite grateful for being pointed in his direction by our fearless and tireless buddy read leader @TheBookHippie this story is heartbreaking and in the last chapter/section I really thought it was going to fully break my heart but thank goodness it ended with a smidge of hope

It was beautifully written but it was hard for me to stay focused on the story. Also, the ending had me scratching my head.

After listening to the last sectioning and not absorbing anything and realizing after this weeks discussion that I‘m completely missing things, I‘m gonna bail. It seems my group is really “enjoying” it so I would feel bad giving this a bad rating when the problem may be either myself or the means in which I‘ve decided to read this. Maybe next time #sundaybuddyread

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I hear ya, Yellow Calf! Just wait until 2020 and 2025, buddy! #SundayBuddyRead

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Reading the tagged book for #SundayBuddyRead and the J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) for #AuthorAMonth this chilly weekend.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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Definitely a bleak start to this book for #SundayBuddyRead

I‘m getting Bukowski vibes 😅

#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD DECEMBER
WINTER IN THE BLOOD
A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance - “Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work.“ —Tommy Orange, The Washington Post
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works.

Via @thebookhippie

#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD DECEMBER❄️❄️❄️❄️
All welcome🩵🩵🩵🩵
This is a short book, but possibly heavy- so I split it into the parts it already lends to us. The entire book is 130 pages. I think it's an important read. I got this penguin due to the forward by Joy Harjo and the Intro by Louise Erdrich.🖤

repost for @TheBookHippie

December #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD

All welcome

https://app.mt.gov/Shop/mhsstore/winter-in-the-blood

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659556/winter-in-the-blood-by-james-wel....

In this novel a Blackfeet&Gros Ventre man travels to Malta in Montana to track down his girlfriend.He meets a sketchy character & some women, in the end finds Agnes but her brother beats him up.He returns home to find the house empty,his grandmother died&he learns more about his heritage&her life.Themes are loss of identity&trauma.The writing is exceptional,original,concise prose poetry.

The Sentence was my #1 read of 2022. One of my goals for this year is to read all of rookies list of short perfect novels that I had not already read. I read wide Sargasso Sea Pat year and Sula before. This is also the first book I finished in the new year. Another litsy reviewer said it best. Everything that happens to the mc also happens internally. Fascinating and emotional book.

Perhaps it was the suggestion of death, but I smelled it, dark and musty, as surely as one smells the mother‘s milk in the breath of a baby.

But the distance I felt came not from country or people; it came from within me. I was as distant from myself as a hawk from the moon. And that was why I had no particular feelings toward my mother and grandmother. Or the girl who had come to live with me.

#7days7books Day 6

Seven books that left a deep impression on me and changed me.