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I‘m turning into a real Cherie Dimaline fan girl. After really enjoying VenCo, I picked this up. It had the same sense of urgency that I really liked from VenCo and the storyline here was intriguing. I really liked how Dimaline mixed traditional Indigenous beliefs with Christian rhetoric. And the ending really worked for me, though I hear a lot of people didn‘t enjoy it.

1/5 #Roll100 catch up books for #MarchMadness (a sub for Roll 42 in March)

#scarathlon Week 4 = 9926 for #teamslaughter
What a fun month-o-reading! Hope y‘all had as good a time as did I!
As you can see, I did a bunch of bingo boards 😅 (and got tired of fighting with the collage app.. but nm)
Otherwise… I read 5/10 for #trappedonanisland, 2 #aam novels, got stuck in the maze, 22/31 for #31by31, 5 books about witches… & I still have to figure out how I did for the #autumnatoz. Stay tuned!
Tagged is favorite from week 4!

Scarathlon2022 #ScarathlonDailyPrompts

I‘m glad I finally got this one finished since I had an #ARC for a couple of years. I loved learning of the folklore of the Métis people & the Rougarou, werewolf-like creature. Joan this her missing husband is caught up with the beast & a revival show. Is her husband Reverend Wolf & can she get him back or is it all some kind of trick?

232 #ScarathlonWordSearch words so 2320 points for #TeamMonsterMash ⬇️

#Scarathlon2022 #ScarathlonDailyPrompts

In this book, a Métis woman‘s husband has been #missing for over a year when she hears his voice at a revival show.
I have had this book on my Kindle since it was an #ARC & I‘m hoping to finally get to it. With a Rougarou (like a werewolf) it‘s a good pick for #TeamMonsterMash ?

Now this book is a top notch thriller (unlike some others I‘ve read in the recent past that purport to be- naming no names). The indigenous mythology heightens to a whole other level what I thought at first was just going to be a simple werewolf story! Read it at night then look out a window into the dark and see if you don‘t feel a shiver… I dare you.

Werewolves have always been my favorite.
This Tale of a rougarou, reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood, is allegory for problems facing First Nation people. The characters are good. A little bit slow to start, but I ended up enjoying it a lot.

#scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter #31by31 #spookoween

I was hoping to get to finish this book today. Probably won‘t get to. BUT- I did check something off my bucket list (cook something in the cast iron pumpkin- it was butternut squash Mac and cheese) and watching this classic 🎥🍿 with a couple of pumpkin beers 🍻#scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter 🔪

This is a werewolf thriller with a Métis cast of characters. It‘s also a bit of a love story. I enjoyed the folklore aspects and main characters, who are tough women who have what it takes to get the job done.

He‘s only three days old, but I can tell he‘s already plotting the best way to sit on my book.
#fosterkitten

Starting this with no idea of what it‘s about aside from the mention of the rogarou, which seems to be a werewolf-type creature.

The book marketing says it best: inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou - a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up, grown-up, Little Red Riding Hood.

#alphabetgame #LetterE @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Hop in if you're not already playing along 🤗

Had the worst time figuring out a book for the letter D, so I‘ll pick two for E 😊 I loved the tagged and also, Every Last Fear (Alex Finlay) was an awesome mystery/thriller 😊
#TheAlphabetGame #LetterE
Thanks for multiple tags, @Allylu and @Andrew65 ♥️♥️

A #blameitonlitsy read for sure. I‘ve read more Indigenous authors than ever in the past year or so and am so grateful to Litsy for broadening my horizons ♥️♥️
Great book about family, culture, tradition, magic. The rogarou is a creature I‘d never heard of before - terrifying! Highly recommend this one!

I really loved the main character Joan. She is a hardworking woman who‘s husband (Viktor) goes missing. Something I think the book does very well is show how grief is handled through out the story with herself and other characters within the book. It is a blend of Native American legend but also a great thriller.

Great thriller summer read so far 💬

#booksbyauthoreofcolor

I really loved the way the author intertwined and used indigenous stories with Eastern European lore and Christianity as a colonialist tool to further marginalize and take advantage of native peoples. It's really quite an incredibly smart and modern commentary and interpretation of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, for where better a Wolf to hide than amongst the sheeple of organized religion in White America?

#scarathlon #photochallenge #horror @Linsy
A genre I didn't realize I needed until I found it - Indigenous Horror
It makes total sense but I had not thought to look for it until the last year or so.

#FallTreasures

Three from my #TBR for #NativeAmericanDay from Native American authors although the tagged book is really from a Native North American author of the Métis people of Canada. It & My Heart is a Chainsaw are #ARCs loaded on my Kindle while I have been on the hold list at my library for ages for Elatsoe.

Book haul!

#julyjourneys #canadaday
Today's prompt and today is Canada Day, and I do not think we can pass this day without talking about how Canada and the Catholic church stole and murdered thousands of Indigenous people (mostly children), a practice that continued unabated until the 1990's
Here are some First Nation authors I think everyone should read:
Cherie Dimaline; Eden Robinson; Richard Wagamese
Today I wear orange in solidarity.

Audiowalk with Empire of Wild 💜

The rogarou, a creature from traditional Métis culture is much more than wolf-like. He/it represents so much more in this story.

I LOVED this book. It's so rare that I start reading a book by an author I've never read and within a few chapters start researching other books they've written because of how much I'm already enjoying it. Dimaline is an indigenous voice in a genre that is intensely white and male and her deft weaving of myth, folklore, and current struggles and oppression demand attention. I'll be reading her entire oeuvre I think ♥️♥️♥️

I LOVED this book. It's so rare that I start reading a book by an author I've never read and within a few chapters start researching other books they've written because of how much I'm already enjoying it. Dimaline is an indigenous voice in a genre that is intensely white and male and her deft weaving of myth, folklore, and current struggles and oppression demand attention. I'll be reading her entire oeuvre I think ♥️♥️♥️

Finally, blanket weather. 😍

"soaked it in Cashness" ?
Loved this exchange between Joan and Zeus about such a great song!

Took me a little longer than I would have liked to get through this one because my audiobook concentration hasn‘t been great but I very much enjoyed it.

We spent our Sunday evening having a family photo session and walking the boardwalk; a very low-key 12th wedding anniversary! Now it's time to curl up on the couch for an episode of Veronica Mars followed by reading the tagged book in bed until I fall asleep.

Started this in car line today after seeing @ReadingEnvy 's review!

I‘m not really sure how to categorize this novel. It doesn‘t really fit neatly into any one genre. There are elements of the thriller, fantasy, and literary fiction genres here. Nevertheless, I had no issue with the story. It was well-written, entertaining, and full of colorful characters. I loved how the narrative revolves around the Métis legend of the Rogarou. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#ReadCanada Ontario ✅

#OutstandingOctober
? Finish Empire of Wild ✅

It is a blustery, rainy, but warmish fall day here in the nation‘s capital 🍂🍁🍂. Ellie doesn‘t like wind so she is firmly ensconced on my lap. We are reading in the spare room cause why not? It has a super comfy chair and full bookshelves 😊

I‘m doing things a little backwards by reading my #doublespin book ahead of my #bookspin selection. I had started both, but this one is calling to me today.

#OutstandingOctober
📚 Read TBD book

Eep! All my books came in at once so I've been reading without postings. Must make a point to play catchup this week! How is the month half over?! #screamathon2020

The writing style of this one is deliciously octoberific: “a man in a black suit and grey fedora in this improbably heat, his red bow tie the colour of shock and murder.“

A Rogarou comes from Métis legend and is close to part werewolf, part body-snatcher. But this story is about Joan and the husband that has been missing almost a year, and how she tries to get him back. A perfect read for #spooktober

Read the Silver in the Wood novella duology yesterday and now picking up this one

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel about a woman‘s search for her missing husband. (A very general description!).

A freaking awesome horror novel! This felt like a really fun monster movie at points, and I loved this badass heroine. Joan's husband Victor has been missing for nearly a year when she stumbles on him in a revival tent in the Walmart parking lot - but he says he's a different person, Reverend Eugene Wolff. Childhood stories about a creature called the rogarou suddenly start to feel very real. #integrateyourshelf

Empire of Wild is a unique read. I‘ve no regrets about the time I spent with it, even though I wasn‘t in love with the story, as it did introduce me to a world I was completely unfamiliar with and some of the folklore within it.

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3503374629

I ate a meringue while I finished EMPIRE OF WILD, which was excellent and thinky.

One of the non-story-related things it‘s got me thinking about is how often stuff like this, which I consider explicitly contemporary fantasy, gets tagged magical realism. I think genre sobbery‘s a huge part of that. Certain readers decide fantasy Isn‘t Their Thing, so anything they like CAN‘T be fantasy. It‘s gotta be magical realism, which is Prestigious. ⬇️

Somebody helped me read outside earlier.

I was kinda on the fence about EMPIRE OF WILD because I appreciated THE MARROW THIEVES but I didn‘t love it the way everybody else does. The library‘s free, though, so I took a chance—and the book‘s excellent.

This decapitation (and canibalization) case freaked my friend out so much that she refused to even go into the Greyhound station. We had to skirt around it for a couple weeks, which added like ten minutes to our walk from the university to the city bus stop.

Also, I‘ve switched from TRUTH OR BEARD to EMPIRE OF WILD. This was an excellent life choice on my part.

I promised myself that if I was very good about book accumulation for three weeks, I could reward myself with a book. Because what else am I going to reward myself with? 😂 I only made it two weeks before caving and seeking out the reward. It‘s been a rough two weeks so I feel like chopping off another seven days of waiting was totally a fair thing to do. 🤷‍♀️

Wow, I really enjoyed this. So heartbreaking and beautiful, and I think it‘s left open enough for a potential sequel?