Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#NativeReads
review
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
post image
Pickpick

Still laughing at "bargoon". This was weird and funny and poetic, also very queer! Recommended in audiobook format! #QueerBooks #IndigenousBooks #NativeReads #LGBTQBooks

43 likes3 stack adds
review
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
A Minor Chorus | Billy-Ray Belcourt
post image
Pickpick

This is an experimental novel / not really a novel by western conventional standards, as it is just as much academic theorizing as a narrative. On the sentence level I found a lot to love here, BRB is such an amazing wordsmith/poet. As a piece of fiction this is a meandering collection of conversations and throughts that ask questions and broach topics w/ no answers or resolutions. If you like that kind of thing + smart poetic writing, read this.

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian FYI Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation 🎉 2y
29 likes2 comments
review
Julsmarshall
The Thanksgiving Play | Larissa Fasthorse
post image
Pickpick

The Thanksgiving Play is the best kind of satire-funny, smart, and biting. Taking shots at all-white school Thanksgiving plays, “woke” Americans, and the entertainment industry, this will become one I read every year. The second play, What Would Crazy Horse Do, was strange, surprising, and a bit upsetting. This is my first read of Fasthorse and ail quite bowled over by her skill and voice. #NativeReads #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

sarahbellum Thank you so much for posting about this play! I had never heard of it, but it sounded right up my alley, so I listened to it today on Hoopla and found it delightful. I hope you and your family had a great holiday! 2y
51 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones
post image

What a beginning! Also great audiobook narration so far. I thought I recognized the actor's voice and looked him up to realize he also performed in Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. #IndigenousBooks #NativeReads #Horror

Suet624 Oh boy, SGJ.
3y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Suet624 it's my first book by him! 3y
sprainedbrain Love this book so much! 3y
38 likes1 stack add3 comments
review
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
post image
Pickpick

I'm not sure how to talk about this book except to say it's a phenomenal collection of poetry. Reading Billy-Ray Belcourt feels like an enormous privilege. It's a collection where I had to stop myself from collecting every other line in my phone notes because it's all just so good. I love his play with language, his seamless shifts between tones, his irreverent humour, his powerful interrogation of colonialism, and, of course, the queerness.

33 likes2 stack adds2 comments
quote
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
post image

"A white boyfriend of mine wanted me to be less beholden to the clouds. / I told him we are all at the mercy of the sky, for better or worse. / Part of me thinks he doesn't deserve to know / about this mode of attention, this art of description. / But I can't keep secrets. I am addicted / to the high of letting my own words forsake me."

"I make out with my imaginary NDN lover / on the ashes of every Canadian pastoral poem ever written."

Soubhiville Oh wow that‘s a lot. I love it. 3y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Soubhiville honestly the whole book is quotable like this. It's so good 3y
Soubhiville Well now I have to look for it. Thank you! 3y
31 likes4 comments
review
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Trickster Drift | Eden Robinson
post image
Pickpick

!!!!! Love Jared, love this world

Prairiegirl_reading I need to get on this series!! 🤦🏻‍♀️ the third book is the may pick for the new storykeepers podcast. It would be great to get them all done and listen in on that. Getting overwhelmed with everything I‘m not reading. 4y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Prairiegirl_reading I know the feeling! This was a quick read, though, if that helps. 4y
36 likes1 stack add2 comments
review
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse
post image
Pickpick

What a masterpiece! I've never read anything like this Indigenous epic fantasy. It's a remarkable achievement in storytelling, world-building, and character. There's so much richness of cultures, character motivations, politics, religions, genders, sexualities, and more, alongside an intricately woven plot with threads unfurling in different places at the same time. I loved the naturally integrated queer, nonbinary, and trans representation too!

35 likes3 stack adds1 comment
blurb
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse
post image

Ahhhhhh this book is so good!! #QueerBooks #IndigenousBooks #NativeReads

blurb
MargaretPinardAuthor
post image

A little disappointed in this book after so much anticipatory hype. It a fascinating story of injustice nonetheless...I hope there‘s some comeuppance in the end...
A neighborhood decoration to go with the title.
#scaryneighbors #orangevale #nativereads #indigathon

30 likes1 stack add