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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Amazing, uplifting
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Tomson Highway's "Kiss of the Fur Queen" has stayed with me decades after it was written, outlining the horrors of adolescence and early adulthood for Tomson and his younger brother René after they come to Winnipeg for their high school education as survivors of residential school abuse.
Permanent Astonishment strikes me as whitewashing of this earlier account, portraying a wondrous and wonderful childhood in residential school and during summers, working hard to help their parents with their fishing camps. The priests in the area are portrayed as kind and the parents and their family members are ardent Catholics.
Life can be both wonderful and horrible but this change in focus seems extreme at a time when the remains of indigenous children are being exhumed every week at residential schools across the country. Still, Highway writes well and he portrays a pre-technological era that will never return.
Permanent Astonishment strikes me as whitewashing of this earlier account, portraying a wondrous and wonderful childhood in residential school and during summers, working hard to help their parents with their fishing camps. The priests in the area are portrayed as kind and the parents and their family members are ardent Catholics.
Life can be both wonderful and horrible but this change in focus seems extreme at a time when the remains of indigenous children are being exhumed every week at residential schools across the country. Still, Highway writes well and he portrays a pre-technological era that will never return.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Oh, I wanted to give this more stars. There's so much in here that's better than 3 stars. But many of these stories, are told the way my dad tells stories... "do you remember that girl you played soccer with? She lived around the corner from us for 3 and a half months. Her dad was a good golfer and made beer in his basement and we went over for dinner once and their kitchen was blue and she had 4 siblings and their names were...... and their mom was, and she...."
I understand this may be the way stories are told in the north. Names are important. Nicknames are important. Places are important, and specific directions are important. I just can't read a thousand of them and stay interested in the text.
This may have been a better audiobook. And the first 50 pages were amazing. Also, I wanted more about Rene as an adult! Are there going to be follow-up books? If there are, I don't know that I'll read them, even if I want to...
That said, I'll never think of macaroni the same way again.
I understand this may be the way stories are told in the north. Names are important. Nicknames are important. Places are important, and specific directions are important. I just can't read a thousand of them and stay interested in the text.
This may have been a better audiobook. And the first 50 pages were amazing. Also, I wanted more about Rene as an adult! Are there going to be follow-up books? If there are, I don't know that I'll read them, even if I want to...
That said, I'll never think of macaroni the same way again.
Did not enjoy the writing style, it was not for me. The author is interesting though!
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced