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“It’s good for what ails you.”

rez dogs by Joseph Bruchac

January 23, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

“All the old stories are so alive that even when you hear one of them again, that story may decide to show you something new. ” – Grandpa Roy. This is a short novel, told in verse, about Malian, a Native American girl whose visit to her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation becomes extended. Although exact dates are not mentioned, we all know this must take place in March of 2020. Malian’s parents are in Boston, but since the reservation closes itself off to visitors […]

Who IS Maud Dixon? The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Gone Girl

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

January 19, 2022 by booktrovert 3 Comments

Looking for an engaging, quick but literary, character-driven mystery? Spend a cozy Saturday curled up with Alexandra Andrews’ debut novel. First, you’ll have to get past the unlikability of almost all the characters in the novel – it’s a testament to Andrews’ writing that despite really disliking nearly every character I still devoured this book. I may not have been any more interested in spending time with Florence Darrow than her colleagues, but I was interested in what would happen to her in this book. […]

So Glad I Didn’t Die Before I Met You

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

January 17, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

As I was finishing this novel, my husband was playing the album I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning by Bright Eyes – and I completely endorse the pairing, if it’s available to you, when you read this book. Which you should, because it was a lovely novel about five lives. It’s not too much of a spoiler to tell you that in the first chapter, everyone dies. The author describes, in painful detail, the impact of a bomb in a Woolworths in Bexford (a fictional London […]

It Me

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

January 15, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

Like anyone interested in books and not living under a rock, I heard many great things about this book last year. And so it was with great excitement that I picked this book up from the library as it finally became available. It rose to the top of my TBR pile just as school was resuming, so this book was my constant companion as we endured the first week back after break and the “will we? won’t we?” as we endure year 3 of teaching […]

What We Talk About When We Don’t

Things That I Have Withheld by Kei Miller

January 15, 2022 by booktrovert 1 Comment

I cannot remember how this book made it to my TBR pile – chances are good it was in reviewing recommendations from NPRs book concierge. This book is full of beautifully written essays about the things that we do not say to each other that are complicated and possibly the place where life resides. The essays are about race and gender and sexuality, and the way that they are all so complicated – they are ways of seeing and then NOT seeing each other. Miller […]

The Seed Keeper

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

January 14, 2022 by booktrovert 2 Comments

This book was recommended to me by many friends who enjoy reading diverse books. It was a great book to start the year. The main character is a woman about my own age (40, as my children will tell you with horror) who was raised by her father with only vague recollections of her mother. Her father works hard to instill in her the values of their Native culture – he teaches her the importance of praying with every movement, every moment, how to interact […]

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