Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

20 reviews

orangepeaches's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is really informative in the native ways of thought and theory. I'm reading it for a native American Literature class and it really is a decolonized lens through the whole book. Everything is cyclical and the timeline is jumbled but in a way the story makes sense and shows growth, place, and time as cyclical. Most of the book I would say is also dedicated to the place, the setting, in that there is strong connections to the land and the place the story occupies. It is a story of resistance healing and love at the end of it all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, War, Grief, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abandonment, Colonisation, Death, Racism, Medical content, Torture, and Medical trauma

juliloops's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: War, Medical trauma, Racism, and Genocide

laindarko2's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Grief, Violence, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal death, War, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Adult/minor relationship

coolfijiwater's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Colonisation

Minor: Gun violence, Vomit, and Sexual content

wellreadandhalfdead's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, War, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Rape

dxlltopia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Cursing, Death, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, War, Alcoholism, and Torture

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Classism, Rape, Trafficking, Racism, Physical abuse, Animal death, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Minor: Genocide, Drug abuse, Colonisation, Vomit, Dementia, Medical content, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, and Animal death

cmbohn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Mental illness, Colonisation, and Alcoholism

katharina90's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

I just couldn't connect with this one. I found the nonlinear storytelling hard to follow which definitely wasn't helping.

The audiobook narration was very oldschool. Announcements like "this is the end of disc 1" were a real throwback.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual content

margaretahall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Torture, War, Addiction, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Gun violence, Grief, Sexual harassment, Murder, Excrement, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

pallasreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Weaves different threads of stories together beautifully 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

Moderate: Blood, Sexual content, War, and Racism