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A high school near where I live just changed their mascot, and sadly it was quite a controversial issue. I think I'll put this book in some free little libraries in the area. 😏😏😏

#schoolspirit #mascot

This book is on my Bookspin Bingo board this month! #schoolspirit #mascot

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Illustrated by Michaela Goade & influenced by Tlingit folklore, this book will be a great way to introduce the task of Poet Laureate and celebrate our native neighbors on whose unceded land we learn.

I read this in anticipation of reading the author‘s new book for #CampLitsy. I really loved the surprising and subtle ways the storylines connected in the book. The various stories weighed heavily on me for much of the time, but it was very good.

This is another I picked up at the Ky book fair last year. A story about Kit, part Native-American, who is writing her story after being placed in a school/group home. She writes about events leading up to her placement, the actions of the “Christians” running the school, & what happens there. Very good story if you can deal with reading some sexual abuse (TW).

Not enough “wows” for this one - absolutely brilliant!! Read to familiarize myself with her work because Bear is a #CampLitsy24 choice - and @BarbaraBB loved it so I thought I might too ♥️ Beautifully written, and each story came together seamlessly. Learned a lot about a place I know nothing about. Best part was the ending, just incredible!

This is a heartbreaking and gorgeous book told by Kit, a half Cherokee, half white girl, a wonderful, sometimes naive, sometimes incredibly astute child. Verble has a quiet, masterful way with this story that does not minimize any of the terrible realities chronicled within it. Full review at https://booknaround.blogspot.com/2023/10/review-stealing-by-margaret-verble.html

Finally, after a failed start on this tome back in 2012, I started over eleven years later and finished it. Jensen, if you don‘t know him, is a prolific writer whose work typically concentrates on the rampant destruction which industrial civilization inflicts on us and the planet. This particular book is a little off beat in that he explores dreams and those who may be working and informing us “from other sides.” Not his best, but decent.

Some beautiful and fascinating character studies. Love how each chapter dives into one character's little world, and then ties them all together throughout but especially at the end. Keeping with the theme of seeing into the lives of people who I would never have the chance to know in real life. What an interesting slice of humanity, this secluded russian peninsula.

Such a great book to reread! I forgot this was centered around a mystery of missing girls because what I took away from it was the vibrant portrait of life on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The tension among villages and cities and nomads or between indigenous folks and ethnic Russians. This reads more like a novel-in-stories with each chapter revolving around different people whose lives intersect in the final chapter. So good! #Bookspin Art info ⬇️