Reviews

The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier

islandbrendareads's review

2.0

I wanted to like this book. It started out well, with the author taking about her early childhood in an Arctic village. Unfortunately it went downhill from there. It was a very tedious read and I admittedly skipped through many sections of this book, something which I never do. Overall a very disappointing book.

dinahmight's review

4.0

Pretty good read. Well written, informative.

larabreanne's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

liznew's review

3.0

A fascinating story about the Inuit, the damage that has been done to their environment, how it has affected their lives, and how the damage will affect us as well. I found the first half of the book hard to follow as it jumped around a lot, but the second half I really enjoyed. I would recommend it though!

hammock_and_read's review

4.0

Super interesting book- a Native look at Climate Change impacts, Inuit daily life/life in general.

wanderinghappygal's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, and Colonisation

gray_birch's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

amiascah's review against another edition

slow-paced

1.0

I love this subject matter, I loved the back story and where the message was coming from, I just did not connect with the delivery. I felt like a lot of name dropping, a lot of repetition of names, places, acronyms. I was very tedious, dry, nothing really compelling to draw me and engage me. I shouldn't say nothing, every couple pages there would a paragraph that would draw me in, not always in a positive way though. I wanted to like and enjoy this book, unfortunately I just didn't.

lsparrow's review

4.0

I always feel a good book is one that makes you want to read another one- this definitely fits the bill. I love her couragous and non shaming yet clear voice. it made me realize again how little I know about the inuit people of canada and want to learn more. it was also great to get an insider look into international human rights and environmental politics.

trid1977's review

I really wanted to finish this book. The topic of how climate change is affecting the Arctic (and the entire planet) is important one.
This book details meeting after meeting of multiple groups. I lost track of each group's acronyms and who they were.
The irony of my frustration with these details mirroring the frustration of these groups to get the Southern peoples to listen, is not lost on me.

One section that I'm certain will stick with me explained how the snow and ice are different now.

This book also directed me to a couple of documentaries. "Qimmit: a clash of two truths" in particular, which I highly recommend. I found it at my local Library.