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Strange, cool, little book from a Native American writer visiting her new daughter's father's ancestral home in Canada. As much about being a single mother and writer as what it means to be an American Indian among the territories and lakes of central Canada, Minnesota, or the Dakotas.
I really enjoyed this book. Elias's sincerity and curiosity is refreshing compared to the hipster or overly intellectual narration that frequents much of the travel writing I read, and despite its lack of edge or flowery language, he never loses the reader. Now I must read more Canetti.
A gorgeous art book that's a must-own. Beautiful graphics illustrate lists of the most random, weird, and fascinating trivia about everything from famous survivors to cool things you can see on Google Earth.
This was both the most challenging and rewarding book I read in 2012, a Jacob's ladder of stories in masterfully different styles and time periods that colorfully clicked together to create one breathtakingly unbreakable chain.
Should be required reading for any high school English teacher on up, any writer, any serious book lover. Agreement with Wood on all points is not necessary (and impossible for anyone who is not quite so in love with Flaubert), but he opens up so many ways of thinking about what makes great fiction great, even, occasionally, how achieving such a thing might be accomplished, and fights so cleverly against such spectacle poopers as Barthes, that one cannot help but be enlightened and encouraged to take another pass at one's own mouldering manuscripts.
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (National Geographic Directions) by Louise Erdrich
Katherine Stevens, May 19, 2012
Strange, cool, little book from a Native American writer visiting her new daughter's father's ancestral home in Canada. As much about being a single mother and writer as what it means to be an American Indian among the territories and lakes of central Canada, Minnesota, or the Dakotas.The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti
Katherine Stevens, April 13, 2012
I really enjoyed this book. Elias's sincerity and curiosity is refreshing compared to the hipster or overly intellectual narration that frequents much of the travel writing I read, and despite its lack of edge or flowery language, he never loses the reader. Now I must read more Canetti.Listomania: A World of Fascinating Facts in Graphic Detail by The Show Me How Team
Katherine Stevens, April 5, 2012
A gorgeous art book that's a must-own. Beautiful graphics illustrate lists of the most random, weird, and fascinating trivia about everything from famous survivors to cool things you can see on Google Earth.Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
Katherine Stevens, January 5, 2012
This was both the most challenging and rewarding book I read in 2012, a Jacob's ladder of stories in masterfully different styles and time periods that colorfully clicked together to create one breathtakingly unbreakable chain.How Fiction Works by James Wood
Katherine Stevens, December 12, 2011
Should be required reading for any high school English teacher on up, any writer, any serious book lover. Agreement with Wood on all points is not necessary (and impossible for anyone who is not quite so in love with Flaubert), but he opens up so many ways of thinking about what makes great fiction great, even, occasionally, how achieving such a thing might be accomplished, and fights so cleverly against such spectacle poopers as Barthes, that one cannot help but be enlightened and encouraged to take another pass at one's own mouldering manuscripts.1-5 of 19next