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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
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last updated Oct 04, 2023 11:14AM
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This is definitely among the top five of the most pointless books I've read in the past 12 months, top ten most pointless I've ever read. We just get involved with the introductory character, then hear about her broken childhood, then suddenly we are thrust into another character's story that for a long while seems to have virtually nothing in common with the story line, then a long, drawn-out description of the making of the drum in which I zoned out so many times that I frankly did not care an
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May 25, 2024
Aldon Hynes
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it was amazing
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I read this book for 52 Book Club 2024: #46 Featuring Indigenous Culture. I had started The Sentence by Louise Erdrich but ended up using it for a different prompt. Louise Erdrich is one of my favorite authors and I’ve read a couple other books by her.
I loved the centrality of the drum in the story. It made me think of the tree from which the drum was made and from there to think about The Overstory by Richard Powers. From there, my mind wandered to other novels where the main character is an in ...more
I loved the centrality of the drum in the story. It made me think of the tree from which the drum was made and from there to think about The Overstory by Richard Powers. From there, my mind wandered to other novels where the main character is an in ...more
This is one of those books were you think you are going to read about one thing but it takes a life of its own...
I enjoyed this read very much but I found that I really liked when the author started talking about the history of the drum. The story of the main character did not interest me at all.
I was glad I finished it because it was a good read.
Good read. Interesting bit of Native history. Interesting writing style.
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I enjoyed this read very much but I found that I really liked when the author started talking about the history of the drum. The story of the main character did not interest me at all.
I was glad I finished it because it was a good read.
Good read. Interesting bit of Native history. Interesting writing style.
My Ops.
Takes the reader into a (to me) relatively unfamiliar culture and makes a place for me to be there. I felt not just like an observer but like I was there, finding out what it could be like to be someone else!
Absolutely lovely.
Begins slowly and pretentiously, ends beautifully.
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