Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

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

13 reviews

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

vereisnthere's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, and Deportation

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

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

biobeetle's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Colonisation

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Pregnancy

betag1013's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism

madzie's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

A very insightful and significant book. Kimmerer offers a lot of insights into plants, cultures, and our modern world, helping readers to examine the world they live in every day. Kimmerer has such a profound voice in her writing that is wonderful to read. She has wonderful, emotion-provoking descriptions throughout the novel that makes you truly feel these lessons. Toward the middle of the book, I felt like there was a lag in the flow of information where parts seemed not to fit together as well as in the beginning and end. Fundamentally, this is a well-written and important book that I would highly suggest to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Racism, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Genocide, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Cannibalism

This book goes into graphic depth about climate change and the death of nature and our planet.

karcitis's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Vomit and Cannibalism

kshertz's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.75

I’m glad I switched to audiobook! It is sooo much information! I did learn a lot but it’s hard to stay engaged the whole time. It’s a completely different way of looking at the world from what I’m used to so that makes sense. I was most interested in her personal story. I think if you’re interested in native knowledge of nature and all that it can be used for, you’d love this book. I took away from this book that native people know everything about the world and if we would just listen, we could too. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.