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Tea and a good book are just what the doctor ordered. Last night was the first night I got a full night's sleep since surgery on Monday. This afternoon's nap was everything. I'm currently reading Mocassin Thunder: American Indian Short Stories for Today for @_indigathon. Be sure to check out their page for more great content and recommendations for Indigenous Heritage Month. QOTD: What are your reading today? ❤🧡💛SYNOPSIS💚💙💜 The ten stories that make up this collection are raw, original, and fresh. Although they are all about American Indians, they are as different from one another as they are from anything you've read before. A supermarket checkout line, a rowboat on a freezing lake at dawn, a drunken dance in the gym, an ice hockey game on public-access TV. These are some of the backgrounds against which ten outstanding authors have created their memorable characters. Their work -- both poignant and funny, sarcastic and serious -- reminds us that the American Indian story is far from over -- it's being written every day. #indigathon #booksandsocks #shortstories #Indigenousbooks #IndigenousHeritageMonth #bookstagram #cozysocks #mug #bookaddict #bookworm #tea #readingishealing #bookphotos #recoverymode #booksinbed #moccasinthunder #harpercollins #bookdragon #booksbooksbooks #booksandpajamas #bedtimereads (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH4T0LcgbS8/?igshid=13s1n1bk9ll9w

I picked up these two Indigenous reads by Richard Wagamese to add to my ever growing collection. If you haven't read his work, you absolutely must. 📕📘📗📙SYNOPSIS📙📗📘📕 INDIAN HORSE: Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he’s led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows. It traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he’s sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. MEDICINE WALK: Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner.     What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. From a poverty-stricken childhood, to the Korean War, and later the derelict houses of mill towns, Eldon relates both the desolate moments of his life and a time of redemption and love and in doing so offers Frank a history he has never known, the father he has never had, and a connection to himself he never expected.    #IndigenousHeritageMonth #IndigAThon #books (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHmFsm4gq0E/?igshid=1p1xwsgj00own

"We don't have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse. We shiver. We struggle for release, and then it pecks out our eye and intestines for sustenance and we die the death of field mice." QOTD: What book sucked you in because of great writing? I'm making my way through There There by Tommy Orange today. It is captivating, eye opening and gutwrenching. Not only am I getting a great story filled with beautiful prose but I'm also getting some truths about the U.S. and Indigenous history. If you haven't picked up some Indigenous literature to read this month it is not to late to head over to @_indigathon for some great recommendations and participate in elevating indigenous works. Reading Indigenous books should be a lifelong habit and it very important so that you will learn the truth, history and culture of the original inhabitants of this continent. Indigenous people have been erased from the history books and society but we cannot allow them to disappear. We are living on their land and I implore you to amplify their voices and advocate for reparations and fair treatment. In case you didn't know, they were crucial to the outcome of this year's presidential election. The road to reparation and reconciliation is a long one, so let's not forget whose land was stolen when we are holding our legislators accountable. Follow and support Indigenous creators. Get involved in your community and find a way to help indigenous causes. #IndigAThon #Indigenousbooks #IndigenousHeritageMonth #reading #bookstagram #bookdragon #books #bookworm #bookclubselections #supportIndigenouspeople #bookish #Thisisstolenland #readingispolitical #ThereThere #TommyOrange #fiction #Cheyenne #Arapaho #Oakland #bibliophile #booklover #bookaddict (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjLl8Qg-f2/?igshid=m2uo24x77q34

It's Self Care Sunday. For me self care looks like a book haul from one of my favorite indie bookstores @thelitbar. It was hard to only pick up a few books. One of these is actually for my husband. He enjoyed browsing shelves and making a mental TBR. Reading choices are intentional. The more diversely you read, the better perspective you gain on humanity as a whole. 📘Postcolonial Love Poem: Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness 📕Carry: A Memoir of Surviving on Stolen Land: A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence. 📙 Sex Money Murder: Chronicling the rise and fall of Sex Money Murder, one of the era’s most notorious gangs, reporter Jonathan Green creates a visceral and devastating portrait of a New York City borough and the dedicated detectives and prosecutors struggling to stem the tide of violence. Drawing on years of research and extraordinary access to gang leaders, law enforcement, and federal prosecutors, Green delivers an engrossing work of gritty urban reportage. Sex Money Murder offers a unique perspective on the violence raging in modern-day America and the battle to end it. 📗 Sweat the Technique: The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk--reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity of a master artist. QOTD: Are you reading any Indigenous or Nonfiction books this month? #IndigAThon #nonfictionnovember #IndigenousHeritageMonth #memoir #tonijensen #investigativejournalism #decolonizeyourfeed #diversespines #hiphop #rakim #poetry #nataliediaz #blacklivesmatter #readIndigenous #bookstagram #bookworm #books #bookhaul #thelitbar #supportindies #bookdragon #read (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHWXPyIgSyW/?igshid=17jzmtoc75ez1

The first challenge for #IndigAThon is chow wow: current read and a snack, meal or drink. November is Indigenous Heritage Month and I am currently listening to an ALC of Apple: Skin to the Core on @librofm. If you're looking for some new audiobooks, check out my link in the bio and help support local books shops. Please take this opportunity to learn about the various indigenous cultures and let it be the first step to lifelong learning and advocacy. QOTD: What are some indigenous reads I need to add to my library? 📕SYNOPSIS: Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of an Onondaga family living among Tuscaroras, and of Native people in America, including the damaging legacy of government boarding schools—and in doing so grapples with the slur common in Native communities, for someone “red on the outside, white on the inside,” and reclaims it. #IndigAThon #IndigAThonChowWow #IndigenousHeritageMonth #reading #weneeddiversebooks #bookstagram #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #candycorn #booksandsnacks #audiobooks #decolonizeyourfeed #decolonizeyourshelves #bibliophile #diversereads #readingisresistance #readindigenousforever #readtolearn #readingisresistance #booksinverse (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHHFOokgI0a/?igshid=19c3nzm4tdlam