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miki_lou

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Water protector, seeker of justice, and democracy defender living where Treaty 8 and 11 Territories meet in northern Canada. Active in non-government communities while keeping a watchful eye on government.

#Canada #Arctic #Justice #Democracy #WaterisLife #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateEmergency #IndigenousPeoples

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Likewise, to bookstodon
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As a reader, do you prefer when people give you random books as gifts, or do you prefer getting a gift card to a bookstore (so you can pick the book)? Just curious.

Unless I’m asked about a specific book, I prefer the bookstore card 📚
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miki_lou,
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@alexisbushnell @Likewise @bookstodon Appreciate that people put time and thought into buying a book that I might enjoy. Like too that books purchased at my local independent bookstore can be exchanged.

claudiac, to random
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📖 Every book lover has a TBR list a mile long. 📚 What's next on your to-be-read list?

Let's talk about the books that you can't wait to read! 📣

#books #read #tobereadlist #whatarereading

miki_lou,
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@claudiac Thanks to the smart readers on Mastodon, I have a long list BUT several are unavailable to me because they aren't yet published in North America. I am an old fashioned reader who uses paper rather than a screen, and reads rather than listens. So I am really PO'd that Hannah Kent's Devotion is not available to me in Canada nor is the Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter nor is Hanna Pylväine's The End of Drum Time.You'd think that book publishers could , right, @bookstodon ?

miki_lou,
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@penpencilbrush @claudiac @bookstodon Thank you. My independent bookstore mentioned overseas options too but also mentioned the cost. I think I am also a little hung up on the principle of books not being universally available. 🤔

miki_lou,
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@claudiac @bookstodon Thank you for these suggestions.

miki_lou,
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@arratoon @bookstodon @claudiac Brilliant! Thanks for the suggestion!

ferngirl, to bookstodon
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Wow, I just finished Tenth of December, a short story collection by George Saunders, and it's a wild ride. These stories are amazing.

What are you reading?

#amreading #bookstodon #shortfiction #stories @bookstodon

miki_lou,
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@educaremom @ferngirl @bookstodon Just finished The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. It's a great story and celebration of the Black and Jewish diaspora in the US in the '30s. But it is the care and love of others and connections amongst communities and an author who doesn't dwell on the negative that are so uplifting. This smart writer weaves recognition of peoples living on stolen land as a condemnation of white privilege/settler colonialism that is the negative force in this book.

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Just out of curiosity, how close are you to your reading goal for the year? I need to read 12 more books to meet the goal I set for myself. 📚📚📚📚

Not everyone works the same way, of course. We've discussed before that reading goals are counterproductive for many. Having a goal really helps me, but it doesn't work for everyone. Just like reading for pleasure and reading to write a review are very different processes.

miki_lou,
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@darrenmorin @kimlockhartga @bookstodon No reading goals here; no racing through books unless I can't wait to see where things are going! Books are not numbers but pure pleasure and escapism! On average, I read one book a week and always have so I usually allow myself only 2 library books at a time. LOL

miki_lou, to bookstodon
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The Furrows An Elegy. It was shortlisted for the Pulitzer in 2023. A few pages in and I can see why, @bookstodon

miki_lou,
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@bookstodon What a great little book! Lots of stuff going on so the reader needs to pay attention - , guilt, alternate realities, identity loss, cross-cultural relationships, monetizing grief and loss, , and people and feelings that disappear in the furrows. Recommend it.

miki_lou, to bookstodon
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Not a reader of but did like Moon of the Crusted Snow. Now there's Moon of the Turning Leaves, @bookstodon https://www.nnsl.com/opinion/grace-guy-moon-of-the-turning-leaves-is-a-race-against-time/

miki_lou, to bookstodon
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“We realized that this thing we’d been talking about in vague terms, that perhaps this was the moment to try to talk to people inside Penguin Random House about the potential for a line of that really takes a different look at the world,” @bookstodon https://quillandquire.com/omni/with-new-knopf-canada-imprint-dionne-brand-aims-to-capture-the-shiny-and-wondrous-of-alchemy/

likewise, to bookstodon

Friday night lights are soft & booked up.

I started Demon Copperhead at the beginning of July, but put it down b/c several library books came in. I’m back at it & it’s definitely a good one. @bookstodon

miki_lou,
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@likewise @bookstodon Kingsolver deserved the for Demon Copperhead. She hits so many issues related to poverty and inequality and the corporatization of human services such as foster care. Demon is a totally wonderful character who makes the reader cheer for him from the beginning to the end of the book. A compelling read.

fifilamoura, to random
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Just had to unfollow @arstechnica for all their nonstop promotion of Amazon because I'm seeing more advertising than journalism from them in my feed.

miki_lou,
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@fifilamoura @arstechnica I unfollowed @bookstodon for the incessant Amazon promotion and for not moderating abusive texts resulting from my questioning Amazon promotion.

jillrhudy, to bookstodon
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10 out of 10. THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride is my favorite book of 2023 so far. It's a saga, a mystery, & a tale about racism and ableism. From Penguin Random House on August 8. @ewgc @bookstodon

miki_lou,
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@jillrhudy @ewgc @bookstodon Finally got my hands on this wonderful book. Love and community; heaven and earth do indeed sustain us all.

CandaceRobbAuthor, to bookstodon
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If you're looking for a character-driven, immersive, heartbreaking yet heartwarming novel, I highly recommend Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah. Stayed up late finishing it last night/this morning. Brilliant. @bookstodon

miki_lou,
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@CandaceRobbAuthor @bookstodon Thank you for recommending this gem! It is everything you said it was. I will be recommending it to others who appreciate smart, witty writers with important stories to tell.

iwashyna, to bookstodon
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Found on @bookstodon, and now returned to @bookstodon with an additional: OMG THIS WAS SO GOOD recommendation

miki_lou,
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@iwashyna @bookstodon Finally my public library had After Sappho on the shelf! these smart and beautifully written, challenging, and inter-related 'cascading vignettes' of 's lives. 'Tho things have changed on the surface, we all need to pay attention to the genitive. The masculine continues as "the patron and the possessor and the proprietor and the patriarch" in too many women's lives.

sbarolo, to bookstodon
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Wow, I didn’t expect these stories to emotionally wreck me, though I probably should have. Strout is wise and empathetic about hurt people making bad choices, and exceptionally good at making me feel things. The audiobook is excellent

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miki_lou,
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@sbarolo @bookstodon Strout's Anything is Possible. Like her other books, this one's everyday characters are anything but given her insights, great storytelling and very readable and explicit prose.

ahermitforhire, to random
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

  • Carl Sagan

miki_lou,
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@ahermitforhire Truth! Right, @bookstodon ?

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