pickI wish this kind of read was available when I was a teenager!
As a book about a girl and her dragon, this book was splendid fun. As a book about an indigenous island girl and her endangered species dragon, this is the kind of book I've been waiting for...as an indigenous reader, this fantasy is a treasure 📚🐉💖.
I prefer books without battles, but some may find this a bit slow paced.
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“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
#Legend
#CharacterCharm
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Beautiful day for some outside reading in the backyard. It is almost sweater weather today and probably will be this evening. Starting the reread of the #OhCanada book. Will post a discussion post on August 31st.
pick#OffMyShelf - memoir
#OhCanada
“Healing isn‘t a freeing experience when you‘re in the middle of it. It feels like land mines are exploding and ripping your flesh apart. Everywhere you step is dangerous.”
Powerful and raw. Knott writes about her struggles with addiction and abuse as an indigenous Canadian. Reminded me also of “Tattoos on the Heart” with its appeal to withhold judgment.
Trigger warnings for drug use, sexual assault and abuse.
Helen Knott‘s father was sent to a residential school,so he had no role models as to how to parent.But he did learn that parents read to their children before bed. Although he was incredibly uncomfortable in this role as a bedtime reader, he persevered. #OhCanada
These I the books, etc. I bought at Possible Futures Bookstore. “Remember” is the poem that was on the final wall of the art exhibit we saw Sunday: (Un) Settled The Landscape in American Art. It‘s such a beautiful poem that I had to buy the children‘s book -the illustrations are gorgeous. #Resistance
#WhereAreYouMonday
My current book puts me back in Canada this Monday. A difficult memoir to read because the author has suffered so much pain and violence.
pick#roll100 plus book club read for this month. Really enjoyed this - although some pretty harrowing sections about Covid/Floyd George which made for difficult (but important) reading. I‘m looking forward to discussing this one!
Plus, first time I‘ve come across a dog in a book with the same name as mine!
I was trying to keep away from books that capture some of the darkness that is now our crazy, chaotic reality.
If this book would have been available before these dark times, I wouldn't have been as disturbed by the unjust society that Anequs and her dragon Kasaqua must journey through.
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Unsettling, yet beautiful.
This world was well developed and incredibly detailed. All the characters were crafted with care and respect.
I would have liked more time on the island and learning more about the traditions there. Perhaps in the second book.
The MC Anequs held the resilience and dignity from real life Native Nations.
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I am also hoping that we readers get to travel to the unconquered lands, meet the tribal people there, and learn more about the indigenous methods of working with Dragons.
This storyline is incredible.
There are 511 pages divided into 87 unmarked chapters.
#nampeshiweisitreviewedbyanncrystal
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