#Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

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"I no longer wish to be called resilient. Call me reckless, impatient, and emotional. Even Indigenous. Call me anything other than survivor. I am so many more things than brave."

- Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

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The Worst Books I read in 2024 in No Praticular Order

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I FIGURED IT OUT GUYS

The Splendid City by Karen Heuler

Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland

The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

A Fate Inked In Blood by Danielle L Jensen

First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn

And an honorable mention to 'A Diary Of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton' that..... I mean I enjoyed it and parts of it were really good HOWEVER.... I dont know how comfortable I am with this being written by a white author.

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The wonderful @batmanisagatewaydrug has put together a Book Bingo for next year and I'm really excited to give it a go. I finished 14 books this year, despite doing uni for half the year, so I think 25 next year without uni is plausible. A lot of these books are outside my current literary diet (which consists mostly of queer romance novels) but they all sound really interesting.

Full list of books and prompts below the cut. Thanks to @batmanisagatewaydrug to putting this together. Also, I am doing this over on Storygraph and I have like NO friends there so if YOU are on Storygraph come be friends with me there!

Literary Fiction: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

Short Story Collection: Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders

Sequel: Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde

Reread a Childhood Favourite: White Boots by Noel Streatfield

20th Century Speculative Fiction: The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

Fantasy: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

Published Before 1950: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Indie Publisher: Variations by Juliet Jacques

Graphic Novel, Comic Book, or Manga: Women, Life Freedom by Marjane Satrapi

Animal on the Cover: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

Set in a Country You Have Never Visited: A Murder at Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

Science Fiction: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

2025 Debut Author: Shoot Your Shot by Lexi LaFleur Brown

Memoir: No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani

Read a Zine & Make a Zine

Essay Collection: Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

2024 Award Winner: Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel

Nonfiction: Learn Something New: Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta

Social Justice & Activism: Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego

Romance Novel: The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott

Read & Make a Recipe: Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly

Horror: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Published in the Aughts (2000-2009): Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Historical Fiction: In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Bookseller or Librarian Recommendation: Enchantment by Birds by Russel McGregor

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From another amazing book released by Milkweed today, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe's Rose Quartz.

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November reads

* = reread

Savory and Supernatural by Karen Healey

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shannon K. Garrity and Christopher J. Baldwin

Tar Hollow Trans by Stacy Jane Grover

A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark*

The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore

The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin

Like Happiness by Ursula Villareal-Moura

The Girl Who Kept the Castle by Ryan Graudin

The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

This World is Not Your by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

The Gathering Dark: A Folk Horror Anthology edited by Tori Bovalino

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

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I was reminded that I had this post sitting in my drafts!! I read a *lot* of books over the summer (a combination of getting a kindle, quitting my job, and going on vacation). So here's another 9 books I really liked (From July-Sept 2024)

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard

Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Reader and Raelynx by Sharon Shinn

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Completed: "Thunder Song: Essays" by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe (Counterpoint Press, 2024) *audiobook version*

I checked out this book via Libby, and the audiobook was about 6 hours long. It took me two loans to finish since I don't usually listen to audiobooks unless I'm driving, using public transit, or doing chores.

Thoughts: I'm genuinely surprised and delighted that I finished this collection despite not having a physical or text e-book! I've never been great at listening to audiobooks since my mind tend to wander, but the topics and storytelling of this collection kept me curious.

My favorite essays:

Swan Creek: explores the aftermath of a miscarriage and rethinking motherhood

First Salmon Ceremony: explores forgoing one's cultural food for a vegan diet and reconciling the two

An Indigenous Queer Love Story: explores love after being told by her ex-husband that she "learned to love the wrong way" by looking at relationships the women in her family have had and her own history with different partners

All the essays reckon with colonialism in one way or another, which is an important theme to me, but these essays especially resonated with me as I'm currently contemplating motherhood, a vegetarian diet for my health and for the environment, and my curiosity about queerness and, really, about how we as humans love.

I look forward to Sasha's future works as I really appreciate her perspective, experiences, and words.

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Book Review: "Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk" by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe (@lapointe_sasha @CounterpointLLC @seacityoflit @EasternRegional)

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk (Counterpoint, March 2023) by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, by author, poet and musician Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, is recommended to our readers by Seattle UNESCO City of Literature. Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award, Red Paint tells the heart-wrenching story of…