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Bad Cree.    From listening to  NPR   Weekend Edition Sunday  January 15   Ayesha Rascoe segment with author Jessica Johns. 

Alyssia and i talk a lot about books.  We are readers.   We also talk about writing,   Writers.   a lot.  we are not writers,  but we love writers.   a lot.   i thought to read Bad Cree because of the interview,  because it is her First Book…and here she was…an interview on NPR.   How fortuitous is that?!   and it,  its  "genre" being….Horror,  Native American/Indigenous  Supernatural.  Horror,  i thought….ok.   Alyssia loves fiction.   I do not.   and i thought…this is good.  A first book,  a young author,  a sensitive interview about the topic of….Horror.  Hmmm.   When i uploaded these two pics today i had 50 pages left to go.   What i thought i might say about it is not at all what i might say now that i have done what i always do with fiction…be IMMERSED in its world start to finish,  even tho i strictly intend NOT to do that and with this one,  thinking Horror would help me read incrementally.  It did not.  it took all of 24 waking hours.  Start to finish i did not live here on this Hill but in the plains of Alberta Canada with a family of women and a bad spirit.   it's finished.   i don't know what i think.  that will take some time. 

waiting for me is Crazy Wisdom.   more "me".   and that will take some time.   i read it long long ago when i was a different person in many ways.   i look very forward to what i read now.   Book is the same.   person  different.    

Books.  i love.   books.

It's Raining right now.    Heavy.   beginning in the morning,  the next 6 day forecast changes.  Instead of 90 something or 100% chance of Rain,   the percentages are   13,  2,  4,  5,  3,  1  %   I am Ready for this.   NEEEEED this.  Am grateful for this.  

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  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    I have never, well hardly ever been immersed in a book, but often a poem or a page.
    And I do find cpmpelling story in a good storm.
    I looked and saw the space opening between raindrops there. I am grateful too.

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  2. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I read that way too…all in. I need to read.

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  3. Angie Avatar
    Angie

    I read like you—-totally immersed. And I read A LOT. Always have. Have to have stacks of books around me, lots that I haven’t read yet (for the anticipation) and lots that I have read. Will have to order these two. Inquiring minds and all of that. :D. So glad the rain is letting up for you. I think about you every single day, Grace.

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  4. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    if ever I put a fiction book on my nightstand I am bound to get very little sleep … like you, I totally inhabit the book until it is done, for better or worse
    non-fiction is usually easier to put down, although there are some non-fiction books that read like fiction and do pull me in
    I dare to say you are a writer … this blog is witness to that … memoir is among my favorite genres and many of the best write much as you do, in short episodic form with a through-line that becomes apparent over time … a thread, if you will
    and Alyssia … how wonderful it would be if you two would share some of her writing someday …

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Reading to me is like breathing. I am never without a book, keep one in the car and always in my purse. I do read a lot of fiction, myth, and memoir, less non-fiction unless I feel a pull toward the subject AND I do fully immerse myself when the books are compelling and well written.
    I am waiting for one of the Sharon Blackie’s books to arrive, (IF Women Were Rooted). I have received Foxfire and Hagitude but have decided to wait a bit before delving into them. Want to finish reading what I have on hand
    Right now I am reading Bono of U2’s memoir titled Surrender. It was a gift from one of my daughters there is a story here: When my twins were 15, U2 came to play at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1985. The girls begged to go so we agreed taking them and a few of their friends as well. Rich and I stayed in the parking lot but I wanted to see if I could sneak in so I walked up to the entrance and told the guards that I had children at the concert and could I take a peek to see if the place was ok; told them that this was our girls first concert and I wanted to make sure that it was not too wild…but HA, I really wanted to be a part of it…! I was told I could for a few minutes, got in and stayed for about half of the show..dancing and singing and just mesmerized by the band and of course, an Irish band…
    Bono’s writing is intelligent, witty, bombastic as the man himself, touching and sweetly endearing in places. I am at the part where U2 has gotten their first recording contract. It is a big book, over 500 pages with photos and his drawings and the 40 chapters contain lyrics from U2’s songs, a brilliant way to structure a book. It is fascinating to me to read of Ireland in the 70’s since Ireland is my heart’s landscape. An added dimension to this is that Bono’s mother was Protestant, his father Catholic so there is a somewhat underlying tension…

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  6. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I read Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa a few years ago. I could read it again. I don’t read as much as I used to, and I don’t write as much as I used to.

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  7. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I was just talking to my sister about Sharon Blackie. She was so inspired by some of her writing that she wanted to start a book group! I have never read her, but curious about what you will think of her book.

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  8. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    I love to read, too, but I don’t read as much as I’d like or as much as I used to read. I am, at the moment, restraining myself from ordering these books since I already have a huge pile of books I hope to read this year. I’m always immersed in a well written book, but I also can close it and be fine until I pick it up again. I can even have more than one book going at at time, stepping from one to another like walking into a different room. It’s easier with a mix of non-fiction and fiction, but I can do it with all fiction, too, if the genre and/or style are different.(Too similar and I can confuse what happened in what book.) The most immersed I’ve ever been is the year I read Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time. Fourteen books, the shortest of which is over 600 pages and most over 1000. It took the whole year to read ’cause Jordan’s a densely detailed writer, and I definitely was in that world that whole year. I don’t think I’ve ever read 24 hours straight, although there have been times I would have liked to. I probably came closest with Wheel of Time, with a few 10-12 hour reads.

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  9. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Both books look interesting! So glad you and Alyssia have books in common.. great to talk of them between yourselves!

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    so curious to me, your No Read.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love that people WRITE. what that must be like…the
    commitment…the day into day….to Tell something

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am not “recommending” Bad Cree. It’s what she says it is. Frightening and Strange. But what i am taken by is her
    desire to write it. What it means to her.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Liz…thank you for saying that about this blog…i don’t see it that way at all, but your words are gentle on me.
    i don’t know…Alyssia…she has such strong boundries.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    more and more i am taken in by the writers…their heartfelt urge to Tell Story…is so BeautyFull

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    we Tell. her and on Gemtactics….and it is maybe enough??

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i looked at that… Wheel of Time….eeeeeeeee…that’s
    a Lot

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    in common. yes. in common.
    again…am not recommending Bad Cree. It’s strange and if i’d not listended to the NPR interview with her, i think i would have trouble with it. Trungpa is Trungpa. a Brilliant mind and an oh so loving Heart

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  18. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Gosh you and Alyssia together…reading books & discussing, mending, taking care, sharing…
    Really touches my heart. How lucky you both are.
    xo

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it never really occured to me. all the years…
    how it might BE
    i’d never imagined.
    i came into all this because of the MAYBE of Emrie being so challenged…Emrie having such little time to live
    wanting to HELP with that
    and what it’s turned out to be is someThing beyond any imagination of any of us. i don’t really know what to say about it all. How it is. Why it is. i really don’t know what to say

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  20. maria Avatar
    maria

    so i’m , i read sharon blackie ” the enchanted life ” het betoverrende leven . i was taken by the tought to know wath she will mean by “her” enchanted ” i know only mine .
    it is the only translated book of Blackie

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  21. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    writing for self versus writing for others … two very different things … sharing is a very intentional act and I didn’t trust my writing voice until well into my 40s

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  22. jude Avatar
    jude

    well me too, but maybe there are many ways to “read” things. The man is the same. At least I am not alone.

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