𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵

Ever since 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦, every time I hear of a new title by Erdrich I remember how much I miss her prose!

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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

It's Native American Heritage Month! What are you learning?

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Summer— a different type of whirlwind…

hope all is well with everyone!

Reading #TheSentence by Louse Erdrich & it’s mesmerizing. It’s a ghost story— and more. #bookstodon #books

My favourite book this year was The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

The book starts with a ridiculous 60 year prison sentence, injustice and chaos, then becomes completely calm, and then back to real life including the pandemic, George Floyd and the uprisings that followed, injustice and chaos.

There is also a ghost. Louise says we need to be a bit scared.

There is humour. And the book moves seamlessly between life death and something in between, maybe.

One of the first things I did was watch a video on the Ojibwe language, because I had no idea what it might sound like.

75% of the words are verbs and 25% of the nouns are classified either animate or inanimate. So animate, something that either moves on it’s own or has a heartbeat, includes trees, clouds, rivers, weather, and surprisingly a car ‘daabaan’ since it moves on its own.

The book was gripping with many universal themes reaching far beyond this one community. So much Native American wisdom.

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