#Richard Wagamese

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Richard Wagamese﹒

Six Books Written By this Author:

Indian Horse 

Ragged Company

Medicine Walk

Starlight

Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations

Keeper’n Me

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From Canadian History Ehx:

Richard was born on Oct. 14, 1955 in Minaki, Ontario to parents who were forced into Residential Schools, causing lifelong trauma for them. Richard was eventually raised in foster homes, where he suffered abuse. He was then adopted by a family in St. Catharines who refused to allow him to have contact with his Indigenous heritage or identity. He left home at 16 to reconnect with his Indigenous culture. For a time he lived on the street, did drugs & was imprisoned several times. Before long, he started going to the library for shelter, then to read. In 1979, he began writing for New Breed, and then for the Calgary Herald. In 1991, he won a National Newspaper Award. He also wrote some episodes of North of 60. In 1994, his first novel, Keeper 'n Me was released. After his first novel, he published five more novels, a book of poetry, two memoirs, two children's books and five non-fiction books.bHis most famous book was Indian Horse, which won several awards including the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature. It was turned into a movie in 2017, directed by Clint Eastwood. He died in 2017 & his final novel, Starlight, was released in 2018.

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The Themes of Medicine Walk

While Medicine walk covers a wide range of topics and themes such as childhood trauma, alcoholism and war, the theme of death and grief are consistent throughout the novel.

The main plot of the book is Frank assisting his dying father in being buried in a special way, in the warrior position facing the west. Throughout the stories and backstories of the characters we learn about many other deaths, Eldon's friend Jimmy, Eldon's dad, His mother's abuse and the list goes on. The topic of death takes many forms in the novel, we see the consequences of death and even murder and we see death from many different perspectives including indigenous ones. 

Indignity and mention of indigenous cultures and tradition are consistent thought out the entire story, they give us new perspectives and allows us to think deeper about the topic of death. We can see in characters like Jimmy and Angie who are more connected to their Indigeneity handle death differently compared to Eldon who knows very little of his native heritage. 

These different ideas make the book very interesting to me. Death is something that can not be avoided, it's something every person will go through and experience. Seeing how different interpretations of the afterlife and different healing processes affect each character adds dimension to their personalities. Overall, the theme of death is very fascinating and makes for a real attention-grabbing book. Richard Wagamese has used it to add depth to his characters and make them more interesting and unique. 

Eldon in particular is interesting to examine when it comes to the topic of death. When he was little his father died in the war, and then years later he killed his best friend on a similar battlefield. These two very different experiences make up a lot of who Eldon is. This trauma has made him very closed off, we see examples of this countless times throughout the story.

““You could talk to me, you know.” She stood up beside him. She was almost his height and she didn’t have to raise her head to look at him. He could feel the strength of her. He wanted to touch her and his hand trembled at his side a little. He trailed the toe of a boot in the grass.

 “Not a real good thing,” he said.

 “Why?”

 “Work. That’s what I’m here for.” 

“Everybody needs to talk.” 

“Everybody needs to work. Seems to me ya can talk yer way outta work real easy. I can’t afford it.”

 “You can’t afford a friend?””

This is a quote from Eldon's past but his attitude towards vulnerability stays consistent until his last few days spent with his son. The combination of his father dying and having to kill his best friend to stop his own death are two very scaring experiences that caused him to drink the way he does. His alcoholism shapes his character throughout the entire book and affects the way others see him, especially frank. 

In the same section, we see someone act the opposite way. Angie was able to be vulnerable and took her parent's death in a completely different way than Eldon 

““My dad was a working man,” she said.

 “Kind?”

 “Everything. He always said he liked the feel of the earth on his hands. So he did outside work mostly.” 

“Sounds like a good man.”

 “He died when I was twelve. Heart attack. Pretty much worked himself to death.” 

“He was Cree?”

 “White. My mom was Cree.” “She’s gone too.””

From what I know so far, Angie has handled these deaths in a much more healthy way than Eldon. I like that the author provided so many different perspectives on death, it adds depth to the story as a whole. 

Generational trauma also plays a big role in this story. The trauma felt by Eldon and his terrible coping mechanisms have also shaped Franks's personality. Now that Frank knows his father's reactions to death, I wonder how it will affect him when Eldon dies. I still haven't reached Eldon's death but the curiosity of knowing what Frank's reaction will be have not faded only grown. 

Overall, this book is dark, but with such an interesting theme I'm able to stay focused while reading, always wondering what will happen next. I've felt my stomach drop multiple times during the reading of this book and I can't wait for the end. 

Richard Wagamese has done a great job on this story and I can't wait to read more of his work.

#Richard Wagamese #darkbooks #book review #themes

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If you guys want some actual rez horror made by ndns (bc White ppl are terrible at it) here's some recs:

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson & the following books

Trickster TV series, based on the book

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

A Perfect Likeness by Richard Wagamese

Slash/Back 2022 film

#ndn #not a comprehensive list these are just some ive heard of

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content warning: residential schools //

as Orange Shirt Day / The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation nears [September 30] I want to give a bit of context to those internationally who might not know that this day is.

Orange Shirt Day was started by Phyllis Webstad and others in 2013. This is a day to reflect and promote reconciliation, as well as uplift and support the victims and communities impacted by the Canadian residential school system. This is also the origin of the Every Child Matters movement.

The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, as it's known by the Canadian government, was only formed as an official national day in 2021 after 200 unmarked graves were discovered on the property of the former Kamloops indian residential school that same year. Currently there are estimated thousands of graves on residential school properties; many of which have not been properly addressed.

Kivalliq Hall was the last residential school in Canada and closed in 1997. This is not some far-off distant history thing, many people alive today were sent to residential schools as children.

If you want to give support, consider donating to the Indian Residential Schools Survivor Society, or Orange Shirt Day. The IRSSS does fantastic work, offering counselling and numerous support lines - including one for 24/7 crisis support. I'd also like to mention Reconciliation Canada, as they also do good work.

This is a small personal anecdote here, but I'd like to recommend checking out Indian Horse; a novel by the late Richard Wagamese that follows the life of a boy going through the residential school system. There is also a film adaptation by the same name. This book [and its film] offers valuable education on the dark history that is residential schools.

I'm always happy to have additional links and educational material added to my posts, so please do not hesitate to add onto this. thank you.

#residential schools #orange shirt day #national day of truth and reconciliation #long post

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reading wrap up 2022 GO

ok so my goal this year was to read 100 books and then i went ahead and read 109. and if i read the locked tomb series three times through that's no one's business but mine <3

italics are queer, bold are amazing, bold italics are queer and amazing

jan:

middlesex - jeffrey eugenides

the mountains sing - nguyên phan qué mai

the vegetarian - han kang

the galaxy and the ground within - becky chambers

to be taught, if fortunate - becky chambers

when we were orphans - kazuo ishiguro

americanah - chimamanda ngozi adichie

h of h playbook - anne carson

klara and the sun - kazuo ishiguro

the space between worlds - micaiah johnson

feb:

normal people - sally rooney

circe - madeline miller

blood of elves - andrzej sapkowski

gideon the ninth - tamsyn muir

time of contempt - andrzej sapkowski

baptism of fire - andrzej sapkowski

march:

the tower of the swallow - andrzej sapkowski

lady of the lake - andrzej sapkowski

harrow the ninth - tamsyn muir

the last wish - andrzej sapkowski

we should all be feminists - chimamanda ngozi adichie

a memory called empire - arkady martine

burnt sugar - avni doshi

a psalm for the wild built - becky chambers

april:

the alchemist - paul coelho

sword of destiny - andrzej sapkowski

oranges are not the only fruit - jeanette winterson

the colour purple - alice walker

the midnight library - matt haig

where the crawdads sing - delia owens

10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world - elif shafak

the discomfort of evening - marieke lucas rijneveld

crying in h mart - michelle zauner

my year of rest and relaxation - ottessa moshfegh

the shadow king - maaza mengiste

the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides

sapiens - yuval noah harari

the manningtree witches - a. k. blakemore

may:

parable of the sower - octavia butler

hot milk - deborah levy

an unkindness of ghosts - rivers solomon

the water dancer - ta-nehisi coates

pure colour - sheila heti

this is how you lose the time war - amal el-mohtar & max gladstone

five little indians - michelle good

june:

indian horse - richard wagamese

ducks, newburyport - lucy ellmann

the vanishing half - brit bennett

medicine walk - richard wagamese

crier's war - nina varela

a quality of light - richard wagamese

after the quake - haruki murakami

death in her hands - ottessa moshfegh

the school for good mothers - jessamine chan

bluets - maggie nelson

of women and salt - gabriela garcia

lapvona - ottessa moshfegh

mcglue - ottessa moshfegh

songbirds - christy lefteri

july:

to paradise - hanya yanagihara

sankofa - chibundu onuzo

the argonauts - maggie nelson

jane: a murder - maggie nelson

eileen - ottessa moshfegh

iron widow - xiran jay zhao

homesick for another world - ottessa moshfegh

a desolation called peace - arkady martine

the art of cruelty: a reckoning - maggie nelson

the witch's heart - genevieve gornichec

dune - frank herbert

aug:

never let me go - kazuo ishiguro

the island of missing trees - elif shafak

the marriage plot - jeffrey eugenides

almond - won-pyung sohn

all over creation - ruth ozeki

the water cure - sophie mackintosh

drive your plow over the bones of the dead - olga tokarczuk

sep:

the remains of the day - kazuo ishiguro

the blind assassin - margaret atwood

go set a watchman - harper lee

a pale view of hills - kazuo ishiguro

seven fallen feathers - tanya talaga

an artist of the floating world - kazuo ishiguro

the atlas six - olivie blake

the inconvenient indian - thomas king

a tale for the time being - ruth ozeki

ru - kim thuy

split tooth - tanya tagaq

wintering - katherine may

nomad century - gaia vince

dune messiah - frank herbert

the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera

oct:

nona the ninth - tamsyn muir

indians on vacation - thomas king

severance - ling ma

nocturnes - kazuo ishiguro

nona the ninth - tamsyn muir

a prayer for the crown-shy - becky chambers

nov:

gideon the ninth - tamsyn muir

harrow the ninth - tamsyn muir

nona the ninth - tamsyn muir

embers - richard wagamese

dec:

starlight - richard wagamese

the buried giant - kazuo ishiguro

autobiography of red - anne carson

notes on grief - chimamanda ngozi adichie

cloud cuckoo land - anthony doerr

on fire: the burning case for a green new deal - naomi klein

sufferance - thomas king

#thanks for asking bro!! #read some bangers this year that's for sure #read some stinkers too but hey #gotta cast your net wide right #hope you had a great reading year too!! #yes tamsyn muir owned my entire ass this year and what about it #if anyone has great recs that align with the greats i've read this year i am all ears!!! #happy holidays my bro #book recs

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2023 Books Read

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield (Dec 31-Jan 2)

See You Yesterday - Rachel Lynn Solomon (Jan 2-Jan 3)

All Dressed Up - Jilly Gagnon (Jan 4)

She Gets the Girl - Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick (Jan 5-Jan 6)

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (Jan 6-Jan 10)

Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier (Jan 10-Jan 13)

Greywaren - Maggie Stiefvater (Jan 14-Jan 16)

The Ballad of Never After - Stephanie Garber (Jan 17-Jan 22)

By the Book - Jasmine Guillory (Jan 22-Jan 24)

Portrait of a Thief - Grace D Li (Jan 25-Feb 4)

Pride and Prejudice (reread, audiobook) - Jane Austen (Jan 31-Feb 6)

Macbeth (reread) - William Shakespeare (Feb 6-Feb 10)

Normal People - Sally Rooney (Feb 18-Feb 22)

All the Dangerous Things - Stacy Willingham (Feb 23-Feb 25)

The Diary of Mary Berg - Mary Berg (Feb 17-Feb 27)

The Witch Haven - Sasha Peyton Smith (Mar 4-Mar 11)

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Feb 26-Mar 12)

The Witch Hunt - Sasha Peyton Smith (Mar 19-Mar 22)

Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead (Mar 19-Mar 28)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie (Mar 25-Mar 29)

Last Violent Call - Chloe Gong (Mar 30-Apr 1)

Beartown - Fredrik Backman (Apr 1-Apr 4)

People We Meet on Vacation (reread) - Emily Henry (Apr 5-Apr 7)

Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka (Apr 8)

Kiss Her Once For Me - Alison Cochran (Apr 8-Apr 10)

If You Could See the Sun - Ann Liang (Apr 11-Apr 15)

Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie (Apr 15-Apr 19)

The Appeal - Janice Hallett (Apr 19-Apr 20)

The Black Spider - Jeremias Gotthelf (Apr 20)

Molly of the Mall - Heidi L.M. Jacobs (Apr 21-Apr 22)

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - Kiersten White (April 23-Apr 25)

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (April 26-Apr 28)

Happy Place - Emily Henry (Apr 29)

Us Against You - Fredrik Backman (Apr 30-May 3)

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (May 3-May 5)

Juniper and Thorn - Ava Reid (May 6-May 10)

Meet Me at the Lake - Carley Fortune (May 11-May 12)

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (May 12-May 19)

Anne of Green Gables (reread) - L.M. Montgomery (May 19-May 22)

Anne of Avonlea (reread) - L.M. Montgomery (May 24-May 26)

Anne of the Island (reread) - L.M. Montgomery (May 26-May 30)

The Winners - Fredrik Backman (June 2-June 6)

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (June 7-June 8)

Peril at End House - Agatha Christie (June 9)

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B (reread) - Sandra Gulland (June 11-June 12)

Tales of Passion Tales of Woe - Sandra Gulland (June 13-June 14)

The Last Great Dance on Earth - Sandra Gulland (June 14-June 15)

Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi (June 15-June 18)

Crooked House - Agatha Christie (June 22-June 24)

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (June 20-June 30)

I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys (June 30-July 1)

Pageboy - Elliot Page (July 2-July 4)

This Time It’s Real - Ann Liang (July 6)

The Last Word - Taylor Adams (July 6-July 7)

The Fiancée Farce - Alexandria Bellefleur (July 7-July 8) 

The Guilt Trip - Sandie Jones (July 8)

Camp Zero - Michelle Min Sterling (July 8)

The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters (July 8-July 9)

Family of Liars - E. Lockhart (July 9-July 11)

The Last House Guest - Megan Miranda (July 11-July 12)

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Chokshi (July 14-July 21)

Rolling in the Deep (audiobook) - Mira Grant (July 20-July 21)

Wunderland - Jennifer Cody Epstein (July 21-July 23)

The Stationary Shop of Tehran (July 24-27)

Yellowface - R.F. Kuang (July 27-July 29)

These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever (July 29-Aug 3)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (Aug 3-Aug 5)

Begin Again - Emma Lord (Aug 6-Aug 8)

Medicine Walk - Richard Wagamese (Aug 8-Aug 12)

419 - Will Ferguson (Aug 16-Aug 19)

Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead (Aug 21-Aug 24)

Ballet Shoes (reread) - Noel Streatfeild (Aug 25-Aug 26)

Songs for the Missing - Stewart O’Nan (Aug 28-Aug 31)

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight - Kalynn Bayron (Sept 1-Sept 2)

I’ve Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella (Sept 2)

The Adult - Bronwyn Fischer (Sept 3)

Nine Liars - Maureen Johnson (Sept 4-Sept 6)

Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (Sept 6)

The Honeys - Ryan La Sala (Sept 15-Sept 19)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (Sept 12-Sept 20)

Beowulf - Unknown (Sept 8-Sept 21)

The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side - Agatha Christie (Sept 21-Sept 25)

Better Than the Movies - Lynn Painter (Sept 26-Sept 30)

Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer (Oct 4-Oct 7)

And Don’t Look Back - Rebecca Barrow (Oct 7)

Hallowe’en Party - Agatha Christie (Oct 8-Oct 9)

Cannibal Island - Nichlolas Werth (Oct 9-Oct 22)

The Final Gambit - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Oct 17-Oct 22)

Stalin’s Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan - Robert Kindler (Oct 16-Oct 24)

Six of Crows (reread) - Leigh Bardugo (Oct 25-Oct 30)

Crooked Kingdom (reread) - Leigh Bardugo (Nov 3-Nov 7)

Sadie (reread) - Courtney Summers (Nov 9-Nov 10)

The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells (Nov 6-Nov 13)

Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Nov 6-Nov 13)

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (reread) - Holly Jackson (Nov 11-Nov 15)

Good Girl, Bad Blood (reread) - Holly Jackson (Nov 15-Nov 18)

As Good as Dead (reread) - Holly Jackson (Nov 20-Nov 23)

Red White and Royal Blue (reread) - Casey McQuiston (Nov 25-Dec 5)

The Secret History - Donna Tartt (Dec 18-Dec 22)

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth (Dec 24-Dec 25)

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett (Dec 25-Dec 27)

Murder in the Family - Cara Hunter (Dec 28)

Three Holidays and a Wedding - Uzma Jalaluddin, Marissa Stapley (Dec 29)

The Book of Cold Cases - Simone St James (Dec 30-Dec 31)

#2023 books

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Hi! ❤

11. favourite native writer/poet?

For Canadian indigenous authors, Cherie Dimaline and Richard Wagamese are two of my favourites. I'd also love some recs for Canadian Indigenous authors & poets!!!

If were talking just general canadian lit I also love Margaret Atwood and Lucy Maud Montgomery!

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J'entre dans la paix des créatures sauvages qui n'imposent pas à leurs vies l'anticipation du malheur. J'entre dans la présence de l'eau calme. Et je sens au-dessus de moi les astres aveugles au jour attendant d'émettre leur lumière. Un moment je m'abandonne à la grâce du monde, et je suis libre.

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Wendell Berry - La paix des créatures sauvages

cité par Richard Wagamese - Jeu blanc

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Hii, can you answer 11 and 22 for the non-American ask game?

11. favourite native writer/poet?

I loved Richard Wagamese when I was a teenager. He was a phenomenal story teller and complicated person and the raw emotions in his books, mixed with the horrors of institutionalized cultural genocide shocked me into making my brain work in a way that I fear would have taken much, much longer if I hadn't read any of his work.

I also have found Alice Munro's writing to be piercing and uncomfortable and so close to home that I have a hard time reading it.

22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?

I like that we have a stereotype of being polite and kind. I love when I talk to people who aren't from here who can confirm it. I think that attempting to make the lives of other people easier is a fantastic national culture for us to have when we can swing it.

But we are a country that sits in a settler-colonial framework. There's a horrifying realization that I had a while ago, while listening to an ancient episode of No Such Thing as a Fish. They were talking about a specific theatre in London that they enjoyed because there was so much history that you could touch, and interact with. And that was one of the wonders of England, to be so close to all that history.

I dropped the sponge I was using to clean a sink and had to pause the episode. We could have had that here! There have been people living here for time immemorial, and then a few hundred years ago we (speaking as a settler) tried to bury it! So we call north america "young" and talk about how "new" everything is. But it's a false, reinforced dichotomy that doesn't interrogate why everything that most of us who live here touch is so new. And if that didn't fill me with shame I think it would speak poorly on me.

Asks for People Not From the US

#anonymous #ask game

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Franks Old Man and My Old man.

Medicine Walk Cover.

As I continue to read Medicine Walk I begin to love the “old man” more and more. The old man is wise and thoughtful, he's very intelligent and is an incredibly hard worker. The more I think about him the more similarities I see between him and my grandfather. 

“The old man had taught him the value of work early and he was content to labour, finding his satisfaction in farm work and his joy in horses and the untrammelled open of the high country.”  

The old man's role as a teacher in Franks's life reminds me of the relationship between my granddad and my father. He also grew up on a farm and was taught to value hard work and farm and hunting skills. Frank reminds me a little bit of my dad as well. He was also quite knowledgeable in hunting at a young age, but I believe that their life experiences make them hard to compare. Frank is much more “tough” and closed off than my dad, while they have similarities in skills, their personalities are too different. 

“The hens were roosting and he was tacking up an extra skein of wire at the base of the hutch. There’d been a fox or a weasel taking hens. They’d lost three already and the old man was angered by it. So the kid had asked how they could fix it. It was a small task and the old man wasn’t prone to babying.”

This quote specifically reminded me of my grandfather. He loves to teach people new skills, rather it was me or my dad he is always willing to share his knowledge but, whatever it was he was teaching you, you had to do it yourself. The old man's gentle sternness is very similar to my grandfather, he's willing to kindly explain something to you and teach you well, but after that, you were on your own. 

“The old man taught him the word “guardian.” It meant protector. It meant that as long as the old man was around there was nothing for him to be afraid of.”

This quote reminds me of the relationship I have with my grandfather. He's not my legal guardian but I've always been so close to him that he might as well be. When I was little, I always felt safe and protected in his presence. I knew his knowledge could get us out of any situation. I think my grandfather is the smartest person I've ever met and think frank feels similarly about the old man

Overall, the old man's personality and “vibe” for lack of a better word and very similar to my grandfather's. I find them both to be very peaceful and calm but at the same time very hardworking and tough. The stereotype of the old man and his farm will always remind me of my grandparent's farm and how their land was when I was younger.

#richard wagamese #student #writers #character commission

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#audiobook #Indian horse #june hopefuls #june tbr #kindle #Monthly TBR #net galley #paradise girls #Richard Wagamese #safe from the pain #Taylor jenkins Reid #the fabled chronicles #the kimono tattoo #the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo #through titans trail #to be read #under fortunate stars

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🗣️!!

🗣️Talk about your favourite WIP

One of my favorites I got going on right now is a short story i'm working on (maybe even publish!! But it's coming along VERY slowly lol): takes place in the 70s, rez horror, main character is a fat gnc Cree residential school survivor, & there's supernatural shit going on with witches, ghosts, and bad spirits & some colonizer fuckery. There's revenge, trauma, anger, hippies, and murder, and more

Some of the events and places are inspired by real life (like especially the rez horror aspect & reservation life & trauma & shit) but aren't necessarily directly lifted: i kinda wanted the setting to feel authentic in the way that ndns will be able to instantly recognize & relate to, like it feels like it could have happened where you live or to someone you know. Cree will also be included.

Book/author & film influences/inspirations for my writing this I'd say are Silent Hill, Dance Me Outside, Annihilation, "Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn, "Monkey Beach" by Eden Robinson, "Indian Horse" by Richard Wagamese, "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, & Métis Maria Campbell.

I think it's my favorite because it came directly from my own brain & it's one I'm actually more confident in! Like I feel like despite my struggles with writing a coherent plot, this one I've actually managed to think up a pretty solid outline for, at least as a jumping off point. I don't want to reveal TOO much bc I'm scared of story theft (not that I'm super duper popular enough to steal from lol but still) & just in case of the event i make some drastic changes. Some of the slowness is due to me getting the details just right & doing more research on things i need to know more about (like Christianity. My family shielded me from it so successfully that I can barely tell apart the various denominations fvshfydh. Im straight up thinking of attenting a Bible study club specifically to do research).

#one song i use as inspo for tone setting is 'down the line' by Jose Gonzales #even if i never publish it I'll probably submit the story to a zine or post it online for people to read for free! ^^ #my attempts to write it have been rather halted however since ive got no laptop #my friend bubblepunk99 has also been helping me for which i am extremely grateful! #gitli #thank u friend <3

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BOOK REVIEW: The Painter by Peter Heller

I’m a sucker for books about art and books that somehow capture the splendor of nature. Peter Heller’s The Painter wins on both counts, with the added attraction of a stark, precise prose that deftly renders complex emotions, the joy and grief of the human condition. In many ways, I am reminded of the works by Richard Wagamese I’ve read recently, blended with A River Runs Through It by Norman…

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