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MatchlessMarie
February | Lisa Moore
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Getting my February #BookSpin list out early for once. 💐💝

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4d
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MysticFaerie
The Orenda: A novel | Joseph Boyden
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Pickpick

5🌟/5🌟

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Tamra
Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese
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Pickpick

5⭐️ Wagamese so effectively captures the heart wrenching destructive trauma of the Indian boarding school policy.

I knew I was going to like this because I enjoyed Medicine Walk. Deft writer! Lyrical and sensitive despite the subject matter.

#OhCanada
@Jess861

Ruthiella Nice review. A little too much hockey for me personally, but yes, excellent writing. 5d
Tamra @Ruthiella the hockey section is a bit too long and seemed an odd tangent for that reason, but I can forgive in this case. (edited) 5d
Jess861 So glad you enjoyed it - such an important topic in Canada! I love the cover on the copy you have! 4d
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Tamra @Jess861 I‘m happy the opportunity gave me the incentive to finally get to it. I now realize I also have Ragged Company still on my shelves! (edited) 4d
Jess861 @Tamra He really is a phenomenal author - and he had such a hard life! We are so lucky he found his way to writing. 4d
Tamra @Jess861 😔 4d
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melissajayne
Brother | David Chariandy
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Pickpick

3.5⭐️

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Nebklvr
And the Birds Rained Down | Jocelyne Saucier
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Pickpick

A great fire, a man who wandered for years haunted by the fire and his lost loves, and a photographer trying to find s ghost but, instead, finding society‘s refugees. This was a plotless novel with a great deal of philosophizing on aging and death.

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LiseWorks
Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese
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January 16th #25Alive FaveBook'24 This one sticks to mind @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 2w
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Tamra
Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese
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What splendid evocative writing! The excerpt pictured is from page 1. I‘m only on chapter 6 and I am going to savor each and every one.

#OhCanada
@Jess861

Suet624 Beautiful! 2w
Cathythoughts ❤️ 2w
Jess861 I'm so glad you are enjoying the book! 2w
DogMomIrene I‘m looking forward to this one! 2w
Tamra @DogMomIrene it‘s really just outstanding writing so far. 2w
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Ruthiella
Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese
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#WhereAreYouMonday

I find myself in Canada today. I‘ve just started the inaugural #OhCanada read. New author for me and the first couple chapters are promising, though I know it‘s also going to make me sad.

Prairiegirl_reading Richard Wagamese is one of my favourite authors! I have not read this one but I‘ve read a number of his others and I think I‘ve rated them all 5 stars. I hope you enjoy it. And yes have the tissues ready. 2w
Ruthiella @Prairiegirl_reading Thanks for the heads up on the tissues! I will try to prepare myself. 2w
BiblioLitten I‘m starting this too! I was in Kamchatka Peninsula and am just about to start Wagamese! 2w
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BiblioLitten @Prairiegirl_reading I‘m starting Indian Horse too, but I really loved Keeper n Me by the same author. 2w
Tamra Sooooo good! I have a special fondness for indigenous writers & writing. 2w
Ruthiella @Tamra Good to hear! 2w
Prairiegirl_reading @BiblioLitten I loved keeper ‘n me too! Ragged company, Dream Wheels, Medicine Walk all excellent. Richard Wagamese is just great with character and place. 2w
CarolynM I‘m looking forward to getting started on this one 2w
Ruthiella @CarolynM I have a very good feeling about it based on the first few chapters. 2w
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Kitta
Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Finished this for #ohcanada a few days ago and forgot to update.

Amazing book looking into the effects and horrors of residential schools and treatment of #indigenous Canadians. Told as the story of a young boy, Saul Indian Horse, as he grows up.

Really interesting insight. Be prepared if you don‘t understand hockey to read a lot about it. I think it would be fine if you don‘t know a lot but as a fan this was a bonus for me.

#canada

Jess861 I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! Definitely an important but dark part of Canadian history. 3w
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Kitta
Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese
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« I couldn‘t run the risk of someone knowing me, because I couldn‘t take the risk of knowing myself »

#ohcanada #canada #indigenous #ojibwe