#waubgeshigrice

[tracyreads]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️for my first read of 2023. I love me some apocalyptic fiction and Moon of the Crusted Snow by @waub now has a place in my reader heart. Sequel out this fall! I wish I had it now. #moonofthecrustedsnow #waubgeshigrice #apocalyptic #horrorbooks #beautifulhorror #horrorspotlight #readdiversebooks #indigenousbooks #horrorbookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQMGzLL6pL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[houl]

#2 Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. 4.5 stars . A chilling slow-burn of a story, where the inhabitants of a First Nations town slowly learn of the crumbling of the outside world at the hands of some unnamed apocalypse. Eerie and unsettling, like all good stories should be. The subtle hints towards something darker are in incredible, with the feeling of menace settling down over the whole novel like a dusting of snow. . I’m trying to read more stories by indigenous peoples and POC this year, with this being the first, so please send through any suggestions. Genre fiction where possible. . #moonofthecrustedsnow #waubgeshigrice #firstnations #minimonotonebookclub #booksivereadin2021 #booksivedrawnin2021 #booksreillustrated #bookstagram #houlart #houl https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxEN6TBrFo/?igshid=1i4cfymo17ywl

[greeniezona]

THIS BOOK THOUGH. Early in July there was one of those twitter threads that blows up where the OP asked people to pick a country and list three current-ish books (available in English) that more people should read. The outpouring of recommendations was tremendous and I was frantically adding books to my to-read list. I looked up this book from Canada mostly because it was in the same list with JONNY APPLESEED, which I am always yelling about, so I had faith in the poster’s taste. When I looked it up on goodreads, I found rave reviews from two friends whose taste I also trust, so off to the library I went. (I know that was a lot of info, but I am always fascinated by HOW people find the books that they love.) . . I could not put this book down. I devoured it, and it kept leaking out into conversations with my husband about the slow-build sense of impending doom this book creates as well as psychology and survival strategies during a collapse of civilization in a winter climate. As I read, it was actually unbearably hot in my house, which you might think would undermine the everyone might freeze to death mood but actually for two days my brain was stuck on: EVERYTHING IS UNBEARABLE, HOW DO WE BEST MANAGE OUR RESOURCES SO WE DON’T DIE? . . In many ways this is an unusual apocalypse/post-apocalypse novel that evades a lot of tropes. The focus is actually more on Anishinaabe culture and history — at one point making explicit the way they have survived multiple apocalypses — the waves of death following the arrival of white settlers, the removal from their land, the removal of their children and the attempts to erase their cultural history. The legacy of all that is woven seamlessly into the book, infusing every page with a sense of reclaiming what has been lost, even before the power goes out. . Someday I will catch up with my book reviews and post a full write-up on goodreads, but in the meantime, I just had to rave over this book here. . Have you read this book? Was it on your radar before today? . . #moonofthecrustedsnow #waubgeshigrice #indigenouslit https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZBLDRAefH/?igshid=1ca7ibvehlkpa

[greeniezona]

#julywrapup — minus Ariel Gore’s We Were Witches, which I had to return to the library, and which I have scoured every bookstore that I’ve been in since. I’m pretty happy with this stack! Which was made larger over the course of my birthday weekend, and also the #24in48 readathon. Still not any poetry, though! I psyched myself out by deciding to create my own poetry annual — a notebook into which I would hand write my favorite poems of the year (an idea I discovered on twitter). I made a stack of all the poetry I’d already read this year, intending to go through them to find my favorites, when it finally occurred to me — I don’t have to order the books chronologically! Anyway, there will be lots more poetry in my August TBR. . . I’ve written about most of these books already so I won’t go into much detail here. So let’s say that my favorite book this month we We Were Witches, my favorite character was Rabeya from The Taqwacores, my favorite ending from Desdemona and the Deep. I was pleasantly surprised by NevermorEarth and How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, and experienced The Moon of the Crusted Snow most viscerally. . . I love seeing all of your monthly wrap ups! Have you read any of these books? . . #bookstack #booknerd #nevermorearth #thetaqwacores #michaelmuhammadknight #howthetwoivansquarrelled #nikolaigogal #definitelymaybe #arkadyandborisstrugatsky #thesinofwhitesupremacy #jeanninehillfletcher #politicalaction #michaelwalzer #desdemonaandthedeep #csecooney #sexographies #gabrielawiener #thekissquotient #helenhoang #moonofthecrustedsnow #waubgeshigrice #goodtalk #mirajacob https://www.instagram.com/p/B0o7tVXgstL/?igshid=1nzpkecbu8pnh