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Migizi Will Fly–A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

Migizi Will Fly

A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

  By Barbara Rhine

It was my first flight out into the wider world since Covid geared up, so I was a hot mess on May 22, 2021, when I began a five-day trip to Minnesota with an uphill task: Stop “Line Three”—the pipeline Enbridge Inc. has planned to transport Canadian tar sands, the dirtiest of oils, to Lake Superior for

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The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien
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Honestly, this book drove me a little bit crazy. Our child narrator is stuck with her dad in "The Sea," and she misses her mother and brother terribly. Friendships occur with others mired in this same place, which is one of of transience for most inh ...more
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The Zen of Therapy by Mark Epstein
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I found this book absolutely fascinating. Its body are actual case histories (all published with the consent of Epstein's therapy clients) where Epstein, a Harvard-trained Freudian psychotherapst and a longtime Buddhist practitioner, tried to apply B ...more
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Sacrament by Susan Straight
Sacrament
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You know me--I love books that deal with subject matter so often left out of fiction in the past. So here is an intimate account of nurses in Southern California on the front line of hospital work during Covid. All Latina, none wealthy, staying in a ...more
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Mecca - Susan Straight by Unknown Author
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I'm glad I picked "Sacrament," Straight's book written after this one, for our book group last month. I had already read it, and wanted to see what others thought. My best friend in the group, deeply entrenched in Latino culture, loved it, and togeth ...more
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
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I did not read this entire book, because it became due at the library. But I will some day, inevitably. I bought two copies for friends who are caught in mourning the death of loved ones, as we all are after a certain age, but for these two the losse ...more
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Coyoteland by Vanessa Hua
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Here's another one by a young Asian author who presents at new voice, at least for me. Teenagers from various families ranging from white privilege to that of a nanny who is the victim of domestic violence, who works in that home. There's a new Asian ...more
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They All Fall in Love at the End by Haili Blassingame
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Interest exploration of polyamory desired and achieved by a Cat's black woman in her twenties, in school and living with her parents in DC as Trump ascends for the second time. There's a lot here--unusual sexual issues, deep racial trauma, the seriou ...more
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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
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I've always enjoyed Strout's books, but this one seemed different, and in some ways more compelling. The title is descriptive of the story, and evocative for that exact reason. The main character is bound into a world where he doesn't get to express ...more
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Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
Olga Dies Dreaming
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I liked this book, and finished it gladly. Lots of insight about New York life, personal and political, and also Puerto Rico, personal and political. A bit long, and a bit confusing about who's who at times (at least for me, maybe with less patience ...more
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The Future Is Peace by Aziz Abu Sarah
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I simply cannot recommend this book highly enough! An Israeli and a Palestinian, both of whom have lost immediate family members in the Wars, team up to visit various sites filled with meaning to both, throughout Palestine/Israel. They have both deci ...more
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