Reviews tagging 'Death'

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

34 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Cannibalism, and War

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Genocide

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide and War

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed the combination of memoir style writing infused with nature writing providing lots of interesting info. The writing is beautifully descriptive and moving. As someone who grew up in the area (outside Syracuse) she writes about a lot, there was a nostalgic factor for me as well.

My one qualm (and this could be indicative of this being published a decade ago) is I think Wall Kimmerer shies away a bit from giving any real solutions besides to become "closer to nature" which reads a bit naive considering where we are as a world right now. Unfortunately we are just so far past the way indigenous people used to live that I struggle to see a path that leads anywhere near back there.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, and War

Minor: Cannibalism

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

residential schools, trail of death, carlisle, pollution.

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.25

The way the author talks about their connection to nature is truly evocative and beautiful.  There’s a familial component to it that, at first, was comforting in that you can find a community all around you if you would but care to look.  But then it began to center motherhood and the assumption that if female, you too will be a mother and experience these things, which was unfortunate.  It became a repetitive narrative that dragged itself to the finish line.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

An informative and thought-provoking read. It got a little long for my taste, but overall very enjoyable and stimulating. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, and Colonisation

Minor: Death, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, and War

booknerd_therapist's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

eden_autumn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Minor: Ableism and Violence

the_reading_wren's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Genuinely a life-changing book. Inspires me and shows me new way for me to return to studying and practicing ecology. 

I highly recommend the audiobook because it is read wonderfully by the author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

this really is one of those books someone like me cant really add anything to; all i can say is that its an INCREDIBLE book that i think almost everyone should read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Grief, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation