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To Shape a Dragon's Breath | Moniquill Blackgoose

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I 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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AnnCrystal This was like a journey log from the MC's POV, with plenty of drama mixed into the storyline.

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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AnnCrystal Reading this now, during these dark times that we're all experiencing, I found this to be an unsettling read.

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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AnnCrystal I've read books with lesbian or gay characters. This is the first with a bisexual character (Anequs). I liked how this gave a unique chance with two possible love interests for Anequs...although, I don't believe I cared for the polyamorous. At this point, I'm not sure who I like better for Anequs. I like both Liberty and Theod...but I'd prefer for Anequs to truly fall for one or the other, not both at the same time (that's just me).

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AnnCrystal The magic system was just beginning to be truly explored at the end of the book, so I'm hoping the next book shows more.

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.

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Amiable Excellent! 🎉🥳 2d

AnnCrystal Thank You @Amiable 🥳📚🐉💖. 2d

Chrissyreadit Wow! Stacking!! We need these books in hard times to remind us we will persevere ❤️ 2d

AnnCrystal Well said @Chrissyreadit 👏🏼🥳🐉📚💖...it became difficult at times, yet I liked that Moniquill Blackgoose kept this clean 😉👍🏼🐉📚💝. 2d

BookmarkTavern The sequel is coming out next year! 2d

AnnCrystal @BookmarkTavern 👏🏼🥳👌🏼 Fantastic! I hope this is long going series 📚🐉💖. 2d

julieclair Excellent, thoughtful review. 👍 11h

AnnCrystal Thank You @julieclair 🥳👌🏼📚🐉💖. 11h

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The Giver (Essential Modern Classics) | Lois Lowry

I never heard about this book or movie. Sci-fi, and especially Dystopian stories, rarely interest me.

We had an opportunity to watch the movie this week...and I wasn't surprised to learn that the book has faced bans.

Is this what Little t and his administration aspires to transform Our America into?

This movie is both beautiful and horrifying.

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AnnCrystal It centers on a world without love, empathy, independence, music, color, faith, hope, nor anything that causes feeling or stirs your senses.

Jonas is chosen to become the next Receiver of Memory. Each day he receive the history of humanity from the Giver in an exclusive library at the very edge of the community.

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AnnCrystal Jonas quickly learns that in order to learn history, he must experience empathy. But Jonas was born to be more than just the next Receiver of Memory, and the Giver has been waiting for him.

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AnnCrystal In my opinion, this story is only an issue for those seeking to oppress democracy.

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Chrissyreadit 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 2w

dabbe The book is outstanding; I loved teaching it to my students. 🩶🖤🩶 2w

AnnCrystal @Chrissyreadit ✊🏼🦅💝. 2w

AnnCrystal @dabbe 🆒👏🏼🤩✊🏼📚💝. This story definitely needs to be taught to students, it is a powerful masterpiece. 2w

Amiable A world without love, empathy, independence, hope, compassion or history is exactly where we are headed. 😖 2w

TieDyeDude I highly recommend the book. It has been a constant re-read for me since middle school. The movie was an admirable attempt (Jeff Bridges wanted for years to make it with his dad Lloyd, but it didn't come to pass, and he made it with some concessions during the YA dystopia craze), but the book is on a whole other level, IMO. The graphic novel was also well done. 2w

AnnCrystal Truth 🫂 @Amiable 😢 oh gosh, that's exactly what my mom and I just talking about. We really need to encourage empathy, teach it in any way we can ✊🏼🦅✌🏼💝. 2w

AnnCrystal Thank You @TieDyeDude 👏🏼🤩 there's even a graphic novel! Where have I been...thanks, I will be sure to keep a lookout for these book versions.

It would have been a lovely father and son duo film if Jeff Bridges would have been able to convince this film to be made sooner 🎬💫.

This is a treasure...that feels like a terrifying warning 🤔✊🏼🌞📚🎬💫. 2w

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The Tradition | Jericho Brown

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Stirring poems about
black and queer experience.
Breathtaking language.

#haikuhive #haikureview #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #readingispolitical

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TheBookHippie I love this one! 2w

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie It was so good. I finished it, and immediately started it a second time. I'm in complete and utter awe. 😍 2w

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JenlovesJT47 This is beautiful!! ♥️ 2w

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue I‘ve read it a couple times now. It‘s just stunning. Have you read these two

Black Girl You Are Atlas

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Skin & Bones

dabbe Beautiful haiku tribute! Could we call it a haiku ode? 💙🩵💙 2w

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie Not yet. But I put them on my list. I must read them all! 😘🤌🏻 2w

lil1inblue @dabbe That's a great hashtag idea! I love it! #haikuode 2w

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥲 Beautiful Deep Poetry 👏🏼🐝🌉🐝💝. 2w

dabbe @lil1inblue #loveit! 🩵💙🩵 2w

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Stupidity | Avital Ronell

Dear Canadians,
I'm sorry our U.S. representatives are complete a$$hats. We don't all agree with them. I can't even imagine how bad the smoke is for y'all. But your response to this nonsense is freaking epic.
Love, lil1inblue

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/premier-us-republicans-wildfire-smoke-ti...
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Bookwormjillk This is funny. Sorry about your fires though Canada. 3w

KadaGul So Canada 🇨🇦 is facing its Commercial Exhaust fans towards the USA 🇺🇸 so it doesn't have to deal with WILDFIRE 😤🤬😡😠😤🤬. It's natural wildfire 🔥🚒 when Californian wildfires harm bordering Canadian 🇨🇦 cities, no one raises a concern 🤨.#AnotherDumbIdeaByMango (edited) 3w

lil1inblue @Bookwormjillk My favorite part: "These are attention-seekers who can't come up with a good idea on health care or on making life more affordable," Kinew told The Canadian Press. "So they're playing games with something that's very serious." 3w

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lil1inblue @KadaGul 🎯🎯🎯 In a different article I read, it was pointed out that smoke goes both ways across the border. This administration is so exhausting. 3w

TheBookHippie Oy. 3w

LiseWorks Hey Canada has been blamed for a lot of things over the years. Even snow is blamed on Canada. Do they actually want us to kind of have a glass wall or something to king the smoke on our side? 😆 🤣 3w

Eggbeater It's ironic, republicans being concerned about the environment. I am sorry, Canada. 3w

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie My "rep" can't show up in his district unless it's a fundraiser, but he can harass Canada? To refer back to my three lis thursday honorable mention: "Fuck wank bugger shitting arse head in hole." 3w

lil1inblue @LiseWorks What was that thing the #fluorescentfascist wanted to do to stop the hurricanes? Maybe that will work on the smoke. 🤣🤣🤣 (Also, thanks for the snow. I enjoy it. 😉) 3w

lil1inblue @Eggbeater How do the people who support them not see the inconsistency? I will never understand. 🤔 3w

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue honest to god these people 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 3w

willaful I love Vonnegut's description of the Totalitarian mind as like gears with missing teeth: “The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases.

The willful filing off of gear teeth, the willful doing without certain obvious pieces of information... That is the closest I can come to explaining the legions, the nations of lunatics I‘ve seen in my time.“

Mother Night: A Novel

Suet624 This regime and their republican followers are e.x.h.a.u.s.t.i.n.g. 3w

AnnCrystal 🇨🇦🇺🇲🥺🙏🏼💝. 3w

TheLudicReader Wab Kinew is the BEST! (He‘s an author, too.)

Walking in Two Worlds

lil1inblue @willaful What an excellent quotation. Thank you. It's going in my journal. 🙌 3w

lil1inblue @Suet624 I'm so tired! 3w

lil1inblue @TheLudicReader Thank you! I didn't know he was an author. Immediately adding him to the tbr! 👏 👏 👏 3w

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South Park Guide to Life | Trey Parker, Matt Stone

My mom and I watched the new South Park episode today. 😏 What a fantastic way to start my vacation. 😘🤌🏻 #iykyk #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #fluorescentfascist

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mcctrish South Park for the win 1mo

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Aims42 It was amazing!!! 😁 1mo

Ruthiella It‘s not journalism, so it‘s acceptable! 😂 1mo

lil1inblue @thebookhippie @mcctrish @amiable @aims42 @ruthiella We watched it again. 🤣🤣🤣 It's pure gold on so many levels. I haven't enjoyed something this much since Kendrick's superbowl show. 1mo

Kenyazero That is an accurate meme 😂 1mo

TieDyeDude I got Paramount+ this week just to watch it. 💯🔥 1mo

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To Shape a Dragon's Breath | Moniquill Blackgoose

This book is a horror story! Well, not literally...but as a Native American reader, this is a horror story... especially with the current political climate.

The prejudice that Anequs faces is INFURIATING. This is a reimagined world, yet the prejudice echoes from my ancestral history...and now the reality we are all facing today.

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AnnCrystal Like I recently commented about...I grew up witnessing my mom experience several levels of prejudice. Something she has dealt with all her life.

Personally, I have dealt with racist who are so sly it's scary because the racism is not easily noticable.

Now, my mom and I both are experiencing blunt prejudice every time we step out and about.

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AnnCrystal I knew that the prejudice of the past remained alive, just not at these widespread, intense levels. I can now imagine the unjust prejudice returning to the levels described in this book...

This story does well in highlighting the ignorance of racism...but it is still unsettling.

Aside from the racism, I am truly enjoying the story.

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AnnCrystal On page 245 of 511. This is chronicling the journey of Anequs and Kasaqua as they venture to Dragon school and enter Anglish society. While I'm finding this entertaining, some may find the storyline tedious because the structure is a bit like a diary of events told from Anequs' prospective.

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AnnCrystal There are a nice diversity of characters (brown, black, and white). There is even a disabled professor, and an autistic classmate.

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Amiable Good progress! 👍🏼 1mo

AnnCrystal Thank You @Amiable 🥳👌🏼🐉📚💝💝💝. (edited) 1mo

julieclair Good progress on the chunkster! But I hate to hear that you are experiencing any prejudice, let alone more prejudice than in past years. So so sad. What is wrong with people, that they feel they have to act this way? Sending hugs. 💝 1mo

AnnCrystal Thank You 😘 @julieclair You're so sweet and kind 🫂💝💝💝. Kindness like yours always shines brighter than the hatred ✊🏼☺️💖💖💖. 1mo

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The Enchanted Greenhouse | Sarah Beth Durst

I love that these authors came to our local bookstore!!! AND 100% talked about #overcomingevilempires - I‘m pretty sure would love the #antifabookclub

TheBookHippie Love. 1mo

Catsandbooks Love them both too! 1mo

Gissy 🤩 1mo

AnnCrystal 🤩👍🏼🆒📚💝. 1mo

lil1inblue You had me at talked about #overcomingevilempires. I'm sold. Stacked! 😍 😍 😍 1mo

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Finna | Nino Cipri

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What a fun, wacky, adventurous read! I really enjoyed this, and I am looking forward to reading the sequel.

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Chrissyreadit this sounds like a really fun read! 1mo

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lil1inblue @Chrissyreadit It was an absolute delight to read. I had fun! 😍 1mo

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