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4⭐️/5⭐️

Really good. I loved the authenticity of the characters - no one was all good or bad, but deeply developed

Bailed on the audio, but read the ebook really fast 🤷‍♀️

I enjoyed it overall. Marketed as interconnected short stories, I actually felt it was close to a novel. Somewhere between the two, since I'm not sure how well any of the stories would stand on its own. Really appreciate that it was chosen for One eRead Canada for Indigenous History month.

I RARELY bail on a book but honestly my loan on this is expiring in less than a day and I'm just over half way through and I honestly don't care how the story turns out. I really thought I'd like this book so this is a shame. I don't mind the quilt-like quality of the chapters, I think the characters bother me- I just find them too flat. Maybe it's the structure & the turning point will come but I think I've given this all the attention I can.

My big plan to sit on a bench and read got rained out, so I contented myself with an #audiowalk under sublime skies.

This interconnected short story collection is great so far. It‘s probably wrong to say I‘m enjoying it, since it follows your standard CanLit trajectory, but I‘m definitely getting a lot out of it.

I don‘t want to jinx it, but I think I‘ve finally solved my ankle cramp problem and cracked Week Four of C25k. I noticed my ankle sorts itself out eventually on my regular old walks, so for the last two workouts, I‘ve added an extra 5-minute warmup walk at a faster pace than my usual walking intervals, then zeroed out my treadmill‘s counter. That‘s let me do the full program without ankle cramps OR shin pain. WHEW. #audiorun

From my #audiowalk with Casey and his pal Duffy, who‘s here for a sleepover because his mom‘s got a lot going on tomorrow.

Enjoying my #audiobook and the rare summer like weather on a little secluded courtyard at work 😄

A bit of piece on a day when I'm feeling annoyingly low and anxious is very much welcomed.

...Her hair went from sexy murderer to electrocuted hedgehog.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh gurl, I feel ya!!!!

Interconnected stories follow a pair of multifaceted Saskatchewan Cree women—and their on-again-off-again romantic partners—from childhood into middle age. Dawn Dumont‘s earlier fiction is swaddled in humour. This time around, she takes her gloves off & gets really real, with issues like foster kids, family violence, police brutality, addictions, suicide, and racism. A good choice for OverDrive‘s One eRead Canada program. #Canadian #Indigenous

He talked fast, leaping over multiple ideas in a single bound. He had a dozen voices as he acted out characters. He was a one-man conversation band.

This book was not at all what I expected. I loved her first two books, both of which are very funny. Glass Beads, however, is not funny at all (except maybe a handful of times)-- it's sad and dark. Beautiful character development of two Cree women from the same reserve in Saskatchewan. Lovely turns of phrase, too. The structure is odd: the cover declares it's a book of stories, but they don't stand alone. It feels more like a disjointed novel.

"How was the date other than that?"
"He's really nice."
"And?"
"I don't know."
"Can you imagine sucking his dick?"
Nellie choked on her coffee and looked around before answering. "Jesus Christ no."
"There's your answer," Julie said.
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Two Indigenous women struggling with life and love.

A book of short stories by an indigenous Saskatchewan writer, on my mom's TBR. Guess who's first in line to borrow it once she's finished? (I blurbed about—and still have yet to read—Dumont's first novel, Nobody Cries At Bingo, a while back.)