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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Books read in October 2018
New:
1. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
2. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga 3. Kuessipan by Naomi Fontaine
I read Medicine Walk in the immediate aftermath of my head injury (i.e. I was trying to read it in the hospital waiting room but kept zoning out) so I didn't retain much of it!
But one thing I did notice is these books didn't irritate me like male coming of age stories usually do.
I can't really articulate how, but nearly every coming of age story I've read with a male protagonist, I had an almost-constant feeling of "Ugh, blah blah blah, why do you think this is meaningful or relevant?" But I didn't have that feeling with these books.
Actually, now that I think about it, I didn't have that feeling with any of the #IndigenousReads books I've read that could be considered coming of age stories with male protagonists. Interesting!
Maybe the Indigenous coming of age is so different from our own experiences, and different from the men's lives that we've interacted with, that it's more interesting? Because I also find most male coming of age stories boring.
4 comments:
I loved Indian Horse. I thought his book Medicine Walk was also really good. Such a huge loss that he died so young, a few years back.
I read Medicine Walk in the immediate aftermath of my head injury (i.e. I was trying to read it in the hospital waiting room but kept zoning out) so I didn't retain much of it!
But one thing I did notice is these books didn't irritate me like male coming of age stories usually do.
I can't really articulate how, but nearly every coming of age story I've read with a male protagonist, I had an almost-constant feeling of "Ugh, blah blah blah, why do you think this is meaningful or relevant?" But I didn't have that feeling with these books.
Actually, now that I think about it, I didn't have that feeling with any of the #IndigenousReads books I've read that could be considered coming of age stories with male protagonists. Interesting!
Maybe the Indigenous coming of age is so different from our own experiences, and different from the men's lives that we've interacted with, that it's more interesting? Because I also find most male coming of age stories boring.
That's true. I didn't even (knowingly) know any Indigenous people until I was nearly 30, so I'm decades behind.
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