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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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There There
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Tommy Orange
Ray Pierotti
, June 11, 2019
This is the type of book that white people think contains a lot of insight about what the lives of Native Americans are like. In other words, it deals in cliche and stereotype and offers numerous opportunities for both pity and condescension on the part of the reader. Sherman Alexie managed to become rich doing this and it looks like Tommy Orange is very much in the Alexie Tradition. The major difference is that Orange writes about urban Indians, whereas Alexie bounces back and forth between the Rez and the City. Basically this book provides a nonlinear narrative that introduces us to a bunch of urban Indians in Oakland, California, a city that is becoming the cliche location for nonwhite writers and filmmakers. I could not warm up to these characters, with their endless self pity and screw-ups, usually enhanced by substance abuse. They all seem headed to bad ending, oddly enough set at a big local powwow. As an urban mixed-blood I have spent my life trying to avoid people like these.
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Elizabeth Kolbert
Ray Pierotti
, March 23, 2018
The standards seem to have fallen for the Pulitzer Prize. This book is on a very important topic, but it is written in a style that does not provide a lot of useful information. In addition, there are a number of mistakes in the text, which in my case as a scientist detracted from my reading experience. Please realize that i do not disagree with the author's conclusions, but I simply don't think she reveals the depth of understanding I would like to see in such a work. It is more politics than science, and even on that level it comes across as naive.
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H Is For Hawk
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Helen Macdonald
Ray Pierotti
, March 23, 2018
For some reason this book is being marketed to bird lovers. I have studied birds for decades and found little useful information. This book is more effective as a memoir about grief and I found MacDonald surprisingly fragile for a grown woman. It is always sad to lose a loved one, but this should not render you nonfunctional. People reading this book to obtain insight into avian behavior will be somewhat disappointed.
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Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide
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Robert Michael Pyle
Ray Pierotti
, September 20, 2017
I am a person who used to be involved in research into Sasquatch. Pyle's book is the best one written to date on the subject and is much better than competing titles produced by Bruce BluBuhs and the truly Abominable book Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero. Pyle is one of the few authors on this topic who actually spent considerable time conducting field work in the areas that might be important. In addition, it provides useful insights into the ecology of the Pacific Northwest.
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