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one praise from the back of the book described it as a “political detective story” and i’m really seeing the seeds of that being sown in these last four chapters

thoroughly engrossing and, as i mature, i realize this nonfiction writing style of diverse and seemingly disparate connections is directly up my alley. i should really branch into more nonfiction. klein’s writing legitimately feels like synapses forming and firing off for the first time

The way Grann weaves together Osage history, Osage tradition and culture, elements of noir and murder mystery fiction, and sympathetic laments for the Osage people is freaking enthralling

“And of course this acquired originality in the lily and the bird is in turn simplicity, for whether instruction is simple does not depend so much on the use of simple, everyday expressions or high-flown, learned language- no, simplicity is that the teacher himself is what he teaches.”

beautiful.

phenomenal.