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zellm's review against another edition
3.0
This was an interesting read. It doesn't feel YA, and I think it would do better with an older audience (adults). I felt like most of the book was really effective, although I wouldn't call it poetry - more stylistic prose. But I do feel like the actual rhyming poems side by side with prose recounting of the same events was the weakest part of this book. It felt repetitive and unnecessary. I get that it was a Beatles reference but it didn't work for me.
miss_molly's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
ellsbeth's review against another edition
4.0
This book provides a helpful perspective on modern Native American life.
raechsreads's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
A family of survivors still surviving in a world that sees them as other, even in their own community. There is always time to hear another person's life story and learn more about a history we all should know. I found this story one that allowed me to step into the life of Indigenous/Native American family and the complexity of how they interact.
briellejune's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 ⭐️
Interesting, but memoirs aren’t my things and I found the bounce between past and present confusing.
Interesting, but memoirs aren’t my things and I found the bounce between past and present confusing.
thenextgenlib's review against another edition
4.0
“We are still here, despite everything that has been taken away any moment we aren't looking.”
amyjmcmillan's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of those books to read and reread and reread. Beautiful, sad, inspiring, and funny. So much to talk about.
tx2its's review against another edition
3.0
Reading 2020
Book 189: Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
Another of the Time Top 10 Children's/YA Books of 2020, also a National Book Award finalist. The book is a memoir, written in verse.
From Amazon: "Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.""
You know sometimes you click with a book? Not this time
Book 189: Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
Another of the Time Top 10 Children's/YA Books of 2020, also a National Book Award finalist. The book is a memoir, written in verse.
From Amazon: "Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.""
You know sometimes you click with a book? Not this time