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Cargando... Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling through the Land of My Ancestors (2003)por Louise Erdrich
   Books Read in 2023 (1,985) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |    ) quondame | Jul 28, 2023 | I was expecting more about books and reading, based on the title, but instead Erdrich's book is a meandering and thoughtful pondering of her indigenous culture, the islands and their history and, yes, a little about books and why she finds reading so important. There are a lot of observations about her daughter, taking a boat out on the lake, and exploring. The journey is the tie along which she strings shorter topics, showing her thought process from one to another. (  ) bell7 | Jul 19, 2023 | I particularly enjoyed Erdrich’s descriptions of wildlife encounters, appreciating the joy and wonder that can arise from seemingly mundane sightings. I have recently read Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen, so this book might have been more accessible to me than someone with no previous knowledge of Native American traditions (I’m British), but this was an enlightening read if you are open minded about those traditions. It would be interesting to know Erdrich’s opinions about these traditions now twenty years later, although my edition includes a positive afterword from 2013. In the final chapter, Erdrich talks about returning to her Birchbark bookstore in Minneapolis, noting the old Catholic confessional over against one wall, which also appears in the fictionalised version of the bookstore in The Sentence, of course! (  ) CarltonC | Apr 21, 2023 | )1  laytonwoman3rd | Mar 10, 2022 |
"This book is a treasure and a delight." "We know we are in the hands of an exceptionally skilled, sensitive, observant writer." "Fans of Erdrich's earlier fiction...will glimpse the very foundation of her literary vision." "The dilemma of being caught between two cultures are at the heart of [Erdrich's] work as a novelist. ...She as shown that she is just as capable of using this material to work magic i nonfiction, as well."
Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: For more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love Medicine, to the National Book Award-winning The Round House, Erdrich's lyrical skill and emotional assurance have earned her a place alongside William Faulkner and Willa Cather as an author deeply rooted in the American landscape. In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour through the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario. Summoning to life the Ojibwe's sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, she considers the many ways in which her tribeâ??whose name derives from the word ozhibii'ige, "to write"â??have influenced her. Her journey links ancient stone paintings with a magical island where a bookish recluse built an extraordinary library, and she reveals how both have transformed her. A blend of history, mythology, and memoir, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is an enchanting meditation on modern life, natural splendor, and the ancient spirituality and creativity of Erdrich's native homelandâ??a long, elemental tradition of storytelling that is in her bl No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Reading #2: Makes for soothing pre-bed reading and slippery dreams.
Reading #3: I listened to the Kitchen Sisters' "Fugitive Wave" podcast about wild rice and the Ojibwe tribes, and it sparked an urgent craving in me for this book; I had to read it while the sound of the water and the sound of the voices were still in my ears. (