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1/18/2023: I first read The Sentence six months ago, then reread it with my mother's book club. I loved it the first time and was still enraptured. The Sentence feels authentic and generous-hearted. It is a love letter to books and an angry one about injustice of many forms.
6/30/2022: 2020 was an “interesting” year, perhaps especially in Minneapolis (e.g., COVID, George Floyd), but trauma always occurs in a context. In The Sentence, that context includes the death of Tookie’s “most annoying cust ...more
6/30/2022: 2020 was an “interesting” year, perhaps especially in Minneapolis (e.g., COVID, George Floyd), but trauma always occurs in a context. In The Sentence, that context includes the death of Tookie’s “most annoying cust ...more
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I've waited too long to do a proper review of The Sentence but suffice it to say it pleasantly surprised me in many ways. I wasn't paying attention to what it was about - I only knew it was a story about a ghost inhabiting Erdrich's real life bookstore, Birchbark Books in Minneapolis.
May 18, 2023: I finally got a picture of the Birchbark Books confessional today that features in this book! I love the admonition for keeping out of it: "our insurance doesn't cover damnation". :)))
So ye ...more
I've waited too long to do a proper review of The Sentence but suffice it to say it pleasantly surprised me in many ways. I wasn't paying attention to what it was about - I only knew it was a story about a ghost inhabiting Erdrich's real life bookstore, Birchbark Books in Minneapolis.
May 18, 2023: I finally got a picture of the Birchbark Books confessional today that features in this book! I love the admonition for keeping out of it: "our insurance doesn't cover damnation". :)))
So ye ...more
The call of the void. To leap. The urge to do something wrong. Cacoethes scribendi. An unbearable need to write.
We could walk off a Saturday night drink if we had a Saturday night drink.
When you don't order booze here it means you're an alcoholic.
Nag Champa = unaccountable
Shouldn't wear read to a funeral. Red is the fire, the doorway to the spirit world.
Haunted? The whole damn city's haunted.
Dogs are so close with people that sometimes, when death shows up, the dog will step in and take the hi ...more
We could walk off a Saturday night drink if we had a Saturday night drink.
When you don't order booze here it means you're an alcoholic.
Nag Champa = unaccountable
Shouldn't wear read to a funeral. Red is the fire, the doorway to the spirit world.
Haunted? The whole damn city's haunted.
Dogs are so close with people that sometimes, when death shows up, the dog will step in and take the hi ...more
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