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The Round House

Louise Erdrich

Start date: August 1, 2018

Finish date: August 30, 2018

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Jun 01, 2017 Colleen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned-on-the-shelf, burnsville-book-club

I was so intensely into this book.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 1, verse 4 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

Of course the rapist-except I didn't use that word: I used attacker-

Darth Vadar vs. Emperors

He acted crazy to sort his friends from his enemies.

Material evil vs. moral evil

The only thing God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

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Mar 11, 2013 Jeanne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-women, first-nation, read-2016

I read The Round House, shortly after it won a National Book Award. While it is the second in a loose trilogy, it stood well on its own. Earlier this month I read Plague of Doves, the first, in preparation for reading LaRose, the third, which hadn't yet been released (but has now been). I appreciated Plague, but the structure of Round House – a single coherent, although complex story, with one narrator set in a particular time – made it a much more enjoyable read.

"Enjoy" is a funny word to use t ...more

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Nov 27, 2019 Martha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019-yorwoc, read-women-19, mental-health, fiction, read-2019, needs-trigger-warning, unreadshelf2019, big-books-19, reading-women-challenge-19, bipoc-authors-indigenous

This is a coming of age story about Joe, a Native American boy whose mother is brutally attacked (as 1 in 3 Native American women are). The story follows him and his family as they process what has happened and seek justice. Suffice to say it has a content warning for sexual violence, though we don't see the attack itself.

I enjoyed Erdrich's writing, we even had my second case of now speech marks in the same month and I didn't even really notice! It was a skilful case of showing rather than tell ...more

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Jan 01, 2016 Keri rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2016-reading-challenge

I'll give it like 3.75 stars. I liked the concept and the Native American folklore stories, though their deliverance was weird. I didn't like the number of characters (I was confused by who was who the whole time) and the abrupt, copout ending. Also, everyone treated Joe like an actual adult rather than a 13 year old and that was really weird to me. ...more

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