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#12BooksOf2025 Book 3: Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

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I don‘t care that it‘s only Monday😂 I cannot recommend this book enough. It tore my 💔 out and made me wanna burn🔥 the 🌎 down out of sheer pain, disgust & shame simply for being human.

It‘s earned a place on my permanent 📚shelf.

I finally started the patterned part of my aunt‘s lefthand mitten while I finished Richard Wagamese‘s memoir. It doesn‘t look like much of anything yet, but I feel like it‘s coming along faster than the righthand one did. We‘ll see if I still feel that way now I‘m past the first ten rows. #audioknitting

Throwback to earlier in the week, when I found NISHGA impossible to put down. Jordan Abel‘s research-creation is personal, academic, poetic, and intense. Absolutely going on my must-read nonfiction recs list.

I meant to return four library books and borrow three, but I found the tagged memoir on the New Stuff display, and a short fiction collection, and then a couple plays jumped out at me (one of which, DRAGONFLY by Laura Rae, I accidentally put behind the other for this pic), and here I am with a STACK.

This book had a slow start for me. The first 1/3 of the book was fine, but I could take it or leave it. However, just wait because then it starts to get really funny. Laugh out loud funny. It‘s written like a bunch of short stories about Dawn‘s life. She gives you a clear idea of her character throughout the book so the traumatic events that happen end up making you laugh. She just has a hilarious way of looking at her life. I‘d recommend!

I would love to see this performed live! (because I'm not really a fan of reading plays...)

3/5
It's quite a hard book to define. The narrator is from Montreal, and every summer she goes to the Inuit in the North to take care of kids. Through vignettes, we discover the roughness of life there: the violence of nature, but also the violence of men.
Why so-so? The first part is all over the place, the second part has actually a plot. Perhaps too many subjects into one book?
Pic: wildlife in San Antonio while walking

A very hard-hitting and honest memoir, about the author's struggles with addiction and sexual abuse. Her resilience, leading to her recovery and ability to share her stories through her writing, is truly admirable.

#OhCanada @Jess861

I'm a little late for the #OhCanada discussion, but I didn't want to miss out on this book. It's hard to review a memoir, especially one with this much trauma, but I think Knott faced her trauma head on and framed her story well. I'm interested to see what her newer book is like.