Hello! I have a copy of The Sentence and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. I've never read Louise Erdrich before. What should I start with?
For reference I just came off of reading the following in the past 6 weeks. Includes my thoughts. Would love to hear your suggestions on which of her books I should read first. Thank you!!!!!
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid – entertaining pageturner but underwhelming and not nearly as uhMaZiNG as people say. I think the people that LOVED this books aren't typical readers.
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely – the message isn't new to me, but I enjoyed how hard the authors went to explain to their YA audience about police brutality and the racist nuances within that. I see why it's a banned book.
- There There by Tommy Orange – it was a little hard for me to follow because there were so so many characters and they were all intertwined as I was listening on audio and wasn't able to flip back and forth to check names and such but that's on me not the author. But for the most part, I really enjoyed the insight of the various challenges of being an urban native and because of this book I started watching Reservation Dogs (also enjoying).
- The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur – read a compilation of his poems. And realizing truly how young he was when he died. He was able to relate deep meaning without a lot of text. We truly lost a great one.
- One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon – I didn't entirely like her writing style/prose, and her hammering home certain points; almost belaboring it. However, I appreciate her attempt to educate her audience on systemic racist USA. However I'm not new here. Hindsight and comparing the two books- Jason Reynolds/Brendan Kiely did it better. Yoon's book seemed to also have a very abrupt ending.
by tekia412