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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
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I couldn't get into it and I am not in the right headspace.
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
i really liked this book. i listened to it as an audiobook and i hope to read it physically one day to catch all the details, spellings of names, and be able to reference earlier parts of the book. i also hope to read it again just to experience the story again and understand it better.
even though this is book is non-fiction, i constantly wanted to learn more and figure out the mystery because of how well the story was told! love a western and love a mystery. i did begin to lose track of some of the names and significance of people, although that’s likely a result of listening to the book vs. reading it. i also forgot the layout of the book halfway through so that contributed to it lol.
i cannot believe i haven’t heard about the osage murders or the osage people until the movie came out a few years ago. it’s SUCH an important case study on the way indigenous people in america have been treated. i appreciate in this book how the effects of the murders on the osage is not understated.
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some quotes that stood out:
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been saved and is dearer to our hearts because it survived. What is gone is treasured because it was what we once were. We gather our past and present into the depths of our being and face tomorrow. We are still Osage. We live and we reach old age for our forefathers.”
“Though, I knew in my own way, I was as lost in the mist as Tom White or Mollie Burkhart had been.”
“White found himself wandering through a wilderness of mirrors.”
holy yap fest but i have a lot of thoughts on this book!
even though this is book is non-fiction, i constantly wanted to learn more and figure out the mystery because of how well the story was told! love a western and love a mystery. i did begin to lose track of some of the names and significance of people, although that’s likely a result of listening to the book vs. reading it. i also forgot the layout of the book halfway through so that contributed to it lol.
i cannot believe i haven’t heard about the osage murders or the osage people until the movie came out a few years ago. it’s SUCH an important case study on the way indigenous people in america have been treated. i appreciate in this book how the effects of the murders on the osage is not understated.
~~~
some quotes that stood out:
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been saved and is dearer to our hearts because it survived. What is gone is treasured because it was what we once were. We gather our past and present into the depths of our being and face tomorrow. We are still Osage. We live and we reach old age for our forefathers.”
“Though, I knew in my own way, I was as lost in the mist as Tom White or Mollie Burkhart had been.”
“White found himself wandering through a wilderness of mirrors.”
holy yap fest but i have a lot of thoughts on this book!
dark
emotional
slow-paced
The facts behind this story are fascinating in the most terrible and devastating way. Really glad the research was done and the massacre, practically attempt at genocide, isn't lost to history. I just didn't enjoy the way it was written. Maybe a symptom of the scale of the events but I couldn't keep track of all the people and how they tied together.
Nonetheless I'm glad I read it and think people should read it.
Nonetheless I'm glad I read it and think people should read it.
slow-paced
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism