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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
16 reviews
vereisnthere's review against another edition
4.0
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
danajoy's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Colonisation
Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War
Minor: Murder
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
4.0
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.novella42's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Colonisation
Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism
bashsbooks's review against another edition
4.25
All-in-all, Braiding Sweetgrass is a fantastic personal essay collection about nature, culture, and our interpersonal (person here including nonhumans!) connections. I can understand perfectly why it is so popular and widely recommended. My friend and I listened the audiobook, so we not only appreciated the descriptions as written, but also, Kimmerer's steady and soothing voice as she read through the text she so lovingly crafted. My favorite takeaways from Braiding Sweetgrass were: the obvious and unabashed love Kimmerer has for the natural world, her willingness to combine traditional wisdom and hard science, her gentle encouragement to consider the world from a different perspective (especially that of a plant or an animal), and her fierce love and appreciate for her Potawatomi culture and heritage. I was also deeply compelled by her rumination on how to become indigenous to place and what obligations we have to others (both human and not). What I liked less was relatively minor by comparison; I thought she was a little uncomfortably committed to gender roles as 'natural' from time to time, and I wished that she came out and actually expanded on her issues with 'technology' rather than taking vague pot-shots at it here and there. Adjacently, my friend pointed out that the anecdote about an ex's attempted suicide in his car to make a point about human disconnectedness with nature was... messy, at best. But those were small moments, and with a book as long and expansive as this one, there were bound to be hangups here and there. Overall, fantastic book, and I highly recommend listening to the audiobook.
Graphic: Grief and Colonisation
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Cultural appropriation
Graphic descriptions of environmental disasters, pollution, and other eco-destructive activities.eden_autumn's review against another edition
4.75
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
5.0
I highly recommend the audiobook because it is read wonderfully by the author.
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
achingallover's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
betag1013's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism
karcitis's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
Minor: Vomit and Cannibalism