Reading Wednesday
Jul. 19th, 2023 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch
This novella in the Rivers of London series follows Kimberley Reynolds on an adventure to the greatwhite Native north. A retired FBI agent calls in something that's her kind of hinky, so off she goes to northern Wisconsin to investigate - only to discover that things are much, much worse than anyone expected. There's a few mentions of Peter Grant (and the Nightengale), but this is Kim's show. (Signs point to Peter not being the only one looking to settle down. Not sure who got the worse situation - Peter with Bev's family not entirely thrilled about him, or Kim with her person of interest getting advice from what appears to be a new genius loci who seems to view matchmaking as fitting right in with his mission to make his bit of the world better...)
In Progress:
Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen.
4 chapters in, and just getting to the Eastern Woodlands vs the English... (The Spanish vs Pretty Much Everyone, including occasionally the Spanish was quite interesting.) Though I'm going to be looking for books with similar scope from the Native perspective* after this, as I hear there have been critiques. If nothing else, Hämäläinen does know how to frame things to get attention.
*Thinking The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History by Ned Blackhawk might be a place to start.
Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch
This novella in the Rivers of London series follows Kimberley Reynolds on an adventure to the great
In Progress:
Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen.
4 chapters in, and just getting to the Eastern Woodlands vs the English... (The Spanish vs Pretty Much Everyone, including occasionally the Spanish was quite interesting.) Though I'm going to be looking for books with similar scope from the Native perspective* after this, as I hear there have been critiques. If nothing else, Hämäläinen does know how to frame things to get attention.
*Thinking The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History by Ned Blackhawk might be a place to start.
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Date: 2023-07-20 12:09 pm (UTC)*Do you understand French? Indigenous literature is blooming in Québec (namely, Innu literature). I don't think there are many translations done in English, however (An Antane Kapesh is a proeminent author and there doesn't seem to be translations of her works, sadly). If not, there still are many works in English I could recommend you.