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Runningdawg

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13. There There by Tommy Orange
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 12:46 PM
Oct 2018

I just started so I will give an overview from B&N

As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow—some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent—momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.

I am not a gamer and heard the movie was horrible but the book was great, so I plan to read Ready Player One soon.

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Back to science fiction next year for me exboyfil Oct 2018 #9
Lots of Sci Fi hermetic Oct 2018 #11
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Perfect Halloween book: Curfew by Phil Rickman. He's my guilty pleasure. Squinch Oct 2018 #5
Oh cool hermetic Oct 2018 #12
Rickman has a really fun series about a woman who is a minister Squinch Oct 2018 #15
"The Pagan Lord" by Bernard Cornwell. dameatball Oct 2018 #8
Yeah, hermetic Oct 2018 #14
I had not thoughgt about that but it does. I believe this is about the 7th in the series. dameatball Oct 2018 #17
Queen Sugar, by Natalie Baszile northoftheborder Oct 2018 #10
Sounds good hermetic Oct 2018 #16
There There by Tommy Orange Runningdawg Oct 2018 #13
Recently read that one hermetic Oct 2018 #19
Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce novel area51 Oct 2018 #18
I so love this title! hermetic Oct 2018 #21
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. n/t Stargleamer Oct 2018 #20
That book violetpastille Oct 2018 #22
Another classic hermetic Oct 2018 #24
Hopefully the artwork will compensate fully Stargleamer Oct 2018 #25
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Good stuff! hermetic Oct 2018 #30
Finished up my annual re-read of "Night in the Lonesome October" Lithos Oct 2018 #27
What fun hermetic Oct 2018 #28
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35! hermetic Oct 2018 #31
Dark Horse by Polly Hennessey Oct 2018 #32
That sounds good hermetic Oct 2018 #33
It is. Polly Hennessey Oct 2018 #34
Mycroft and Sherlock!! PennyK Oct 2018 #35
Hey, thanks! hermetic Oct 2018 #39
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I like Jack Reacher stories hermetic Oct 2018 #38
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