pickAgain, she does such a beautiful job of telling stories about ordinary people in places familiar to her and her readers. Deftly told multigenerational community stories - not all is revealed, but the ending is satisfying.
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pickAgain, she does such a beautiful job of telling stories about ordinary people in places familiar to her and her readers. Deftly told multigenerational community stories - not all is revealed, but the ending is satisfying.
#readingbracket2023. Decided to give this a try this year and hoping I keep up with it. Choosing my January pick harder than I thought it would be but I am glad I had a month with a few strong contenders. Thank you @chasjjlee for creating such a a great bracket.
pickEnding my month of Erdrich on a high note. This book is comprised of interconnected stories centered around the unsolved murder of a family with a baby the only survivor. The ramifications start swiftly with misplaced vigilante violence and don‘t stop impacting lives for decades. The superbly drawn characters, intricate plotting, and breadth of emotions I felt while reading make this a new favorite of her books.
pickNew to me author. I looked up Erdrich as part of #AAM and it was really difficult to select a couple from her vest catalogue. It was pretty difficult getting back into reading reality after so long in fantasy land but I really enjoyed the tagged book.
Told from the POV of several people, the author explores the bonds between strangers and family in a small community in North Dakota over several generations. There‘s a LOT packed in here!
pickI have a love/hate relationship with novels in stories, but Erdrich once again proves what skill she has to unite stories that tell about the lives of two families across more than 100 years. #AuthorAMonth
A family is shot dead, all but the baby. Erdrich follows the families of the victims, killer, the Native Americans wrongly lynched for the crime, and those doing the lynching. It‘s a symphony of stories that bring out greater truths about life.
pickHappiness is having a bunch of Louise Erdrich‘s backlist on your TBR! Minus this one now, which was fantastic - such complex and interesting characters/relationships (and now I want to reread The Round House to remember which characters from this reappear in it). I just love the way she writes. Hoping to be motivated by #AuthorAMonth to fit in a few more of her titles this month.
Back to #audiocrafting
Things are getting serious now - using the five- needle punch!
#litsycrafters
And Lo, the foliage appears
I love Erdrich. I don't know why I haven't read this one before.
#audiocrafting #litsycrafters
My first Louise Erdrich. I get why she‘s renowned. I had a little too much sun today. Still enjoying it…just from a distance.
What are your thoughts on the new HP Olive Editions? Overall I'm pleased with them. I own Beasts of No Nation already, but am interested in 4 of these. On sale 9-7, aka Rooney Tuesday:
https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/oliveeditions
@dariazeoli has inspired me to comb through the books I own, as yet unread.
I'm posting one book per day from the ever growing unread stacks in my personal library. No description or explanation, just books I own and plan to read. #tbr
Starting Day 1 off with a double.
pickI have read and loved 8 of Erdrich‘s books, and this was definitely one of my favorites. I love the incredibly interesting stories and family lines that she interweaves.
Louise Erdrich is my favorite author and I think that beautiful Native American literature is best read in nature. As Erdrich painted a breathtaking scene of doves with her words, I looked up just as a gaggle of geese flew from the pond in this picture. If I remember right, the last Erdrich book I read was last winter camping in the mountains of Texas.
“I saw that the loss of their land was lodged inside of them forever. This loss would enter me, too.”
#favs
Thanks for the tag @Liz_M I'm enjoying everyone's responses to this. The best part of this question is the phrasing "3 of your" rather than "your 3 all-time".
?The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich
?Orlando - Virginia Woolf
?If on a Winter's Night a Traveler- Italo Calvino
Want to play @LeahBergen @Cinfhen ?
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Anyone read this one? It sounds good!
Yay for second hand books! 6,80€ for these beauties.
I got this book for free at a work event today. Anyone read it? What did you think?
Enjoying a cup of this tea, which is supposed to have a calming effect, while working on my March planner page.
I've not been on here for aaages! New Year's resolution no.379 - manage social media better & keep in touch with people.
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I'm struggling to get going with this book, I'm 50 pages in without much trace of a plot. Anyone read it? Is it worth sticking with?
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#underwhelming #mightdnf
One of my favorites of my 2017, I'm going to use this #septembowie challenge to post about another favorite character, grandfather of one of the protagonists. Mooshum knows how to spend his #goldenyears - telling stories of his life (sometimes of questionable validity) and getting into mischief. @Marchpane @Cinfhen
I'm going to use #IKissedagirl #junetunz as a chance to gush a little more about this recent read. Evelina was my favorite character- we follow her from high school through college and really get to know her through her passion, curiosity and quirkiness. She struggles with her sexual identity, while growing more curious about the strange history of her town and the generations of Ojibwe and German families who seem to harbor secrets like she does.
pickImagine my surprise to find myself sitting in my kitchen at 11:40 at night after furiously rereading different passages from this masterpiece I just finished. Erdrich deftly weaves together stories from three generations of a few families in Pluto, North Dakota, stories that are haunted by the mystery of a horrific crime in the town's history, and an equally appalling vigilante response. Read it immediately!
This is a gorgeous literary mystery that stayed with me for days after I finished. #indigenousauthors #junebookbugs @RealLifeReading
"The air was filled with falling down and the ditch grass and gutters were plump with a snow of light" I just started this yesterday so I feel like the #Indigenousauthors prompt is very timely. Would feel a little guilty adding to the chorus of Erdrich posts just because I haven't read widely enough to add a new author, but with prose like this, I hope you'll forgive me. #junebookbugs @RealLifeReading
#junebookbugs #indigenousauthors Love Alexie and Erdrich , have not read everything by them but working on it!
#LyricalApril #WhenDovesCry
I had to go to my tbr list for today's photo prompt. 😃
AAUW book fair haul, part 2. They probably won't let me back in if I went a third time.
Started this on the plane. Now half way through and am intrigue.
pickCloser to a pick then a so so. The first half of the book was a bit too disjointed for me. But, after it flowed really well. I liked Round House and LaRose significantly more. I probably would have felt differently if I had read this book before the next two in this restorative justice trilogy. But I did enjoy reading the backstory to some of the characters who appear in Erdich's books.
One of the places I work has a free books table and I snatched this one up! Haven't read any Louise Erdrich yet but that is something I shall remedy.
Sorry about your TBRs. I have no chill when it comes to #BooksbyWomen. 🙋🏻🙆🏼💁🏽🙆🏾🙋🏿
#SeptPhotoChallenge #SomethingforSept #WomenWriters #ReadWomen #wndb
Louise Erdrich! #womenwriters #somethingforsept #bookphotochallenge
pickLoved her writing even though I don't like multiple narrators. Felt more like a short story collection than a novel. Not a fan of short stories. But because her writing is beautiful I'm giving it 3.5/5 stars
⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
#bookolympics #4
"I still loved Mooshum, of course, but with this tale something in my regard of him was disturbed, as if I'd stepped into a clear stream and silt had billowed up around my feet."
Such imagery! It's been years since I've read Erdrich but now I remember why I was so obsessed with her writing.
#bookolympics
Found some more of her books! I'm excited to read them! My TBR piles are getting a bit out of control but I'll get to them all eventually. Right? 😬
pickA study of a murder in another culture and the ramifications through the generations. The story takes place in North Dakota among the Native American people. By moving back and forth between generations we are introduced to many memorable characters.
