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constantlymaya's review
4.0
This book is essentially a collection of short essays about the author’s experience of growing up in a Mennonite family in Vanderhoof, BC. It is very beautifully and tenderly written, a lovely ode to the bittersweetness of childhood and all the curiosity, wonder, and painful learning that accompanies it. I kept expecting something either tragic or groundbreaking to happen, or for it to be an expose of small town religious communities. None of that happened, and I’m glad: instead I found a nuanced and poignant chronicling of a normal life, with all its little thrills and pleasures and disappointments, stories and vignettes from Funk’s childhood which are very relatable while being personal to her. This is a lovely read, and pays reverential tribute to childhood in all its mundane and magical glory.
hannaheiserman's review
funny
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
An entire chapter on animal slaughtering and butchering; chapter on the burial of a family horse. There is also a chapter where the narrator goes into a lake with leeches, which may not trigger anyone else but certainly did for me.bookalong's review
4.0
"Even now, I sleep beneath a patchwork crazy quilt stitched from the denim of my dad's grease-stained, worn-out jeans, the corduroy of my brother school pants, my mother's closet full of skirts and slacks and blouses-- all those flowers, all those greys and greens and blues-- and my childhood Sunday dresses, salvaged cut and finally made to fit."
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Thoughts~
An illuminating memoir!
Funk grew up not far from where I did but her life was much different from mine. In Every Little Scrap And Wonder she reflects on her childhood, growing up in a Mennonite community in a small logging town in British Columbia. Telling stories of her girlhood and family.
I wasn't sure if this book would be for me seeing as I did not grow up with any religious inclinations but I found myself curious from the first page and ended up really enjoyed it! The way she pulled together all these different stories of her childhood to paint the picture for the reader of her at times odd and more traditional upbringing was wonderfully done. Funk is a poet, and this really showed in her prose. Her writing is tender, vivid and beautiful.
Thank You @greystonebooks for sending me this book and for all the wonderful #canlit they are publishing but also for getting British Columbia stories like this one out there too. It's so refreshing!
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Thoughts~
An illuminating memoir!
Funk grew up not far from where I did but her life was much different from mine. In Every Little Scrap And Wonder she reflects on her childhood, growing up in a Mennonite community in a small logging town in British Columbia. Telling stories of her girlhood and family.
I wasn't sure if this book would be for me seeing as I did not grow up with any religious inclinations but I found myself curious from the first page and ended up really enjoyed it! The way she pulled together all these different stories of her childhood to paint the picture for the reader of her at times odd and more traditional upbringing was wonderfully done. Funk is a poet, and this really showed in her prose. Her writing is tender, vivid and beautiful.
Thank You @greystonebooks for sending me this book and for all the wonderful #canlit they are publishing but also for getting British Columbia stories like this one out there too. It's so refreshing!
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For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
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