Evan and Nicole live on the rez all the way north in Ontario, ever so close to the Inuit lands surrounding Hudson Bay. Author Waubgeshig Rice is a First Nations native from a less-northerly band than Evan and Nicole’s, so I was ready to believe him when he told me the details of his novel’sContinue reading “Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice”
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Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
After the Romans had conquered the city of Carthage, they killed the men, sold the women and children into slavery, pulled down the great buildings, broke up the stones, burned the rubble, and salted the earth so that nothing would ever grow there again. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book in my lifeContinue reading “Song of Kali by Dan Simmons”
A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison Book Review
When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for the convent where they attend school. They are abducted almost immediately and sold toContinue reading “A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison Book Review”
Alvin Maker * The Red Profet * Orson Scott Card
Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card is the second in the Alvin Maker series (after The Seventh Son) and is a dramatic look at what early America could have been. This work of fiction involves characters pulled from reality that include Ta-Kumsaw (Tecumseh) and his brother Tenskwa-Tawa (Tenskwatawa); taken from the time of Napoleon BonaparteContinue reading “Alvin Maker * The Red Profet * Orson Scott Card”
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