Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

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

11 reviews

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.

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Genocide, and Death

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

---

Content Warnings

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

Minor: Vomit and Cannibalism

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

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

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

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, Animal death, Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Genocide

Minor: Child death, Cannibalism, Car accident, Hate crime, Suicide, and War

aguattery's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

Honestly I struggled through this one. I understand why the author narrated so slowly but it made it hard to focus. Honestly some of the essays I could have done without. I was going to rate it 3 stars but the ending was so chilling and has inspired me to read it again as I feel like I didn't glean all of the lessons. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Colonisation, and Genocide

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Racism

Minor: Cannibalism

readandfindout's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Perspective: 5 stars

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Racism, Grief, Genocide, Death, Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

cammiem8's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.75

The content of this book was so fascinating and I agree strongly with the author’s philosophy, but I felt this collection of essays suffered from a lack of editing. Many of the essays were too long and repetitive, and others could have been combined. I’d say it’s worth reading to learn from, but it does not feel like a finished piece. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Cannibalism

Many of the injustices against Native Americans are described in this book. It does have a hopeful tone despite some dark subject matter. One essay depicts the legend of the Wendigo, which involves non-graphic depictions of cannibalism.

erica_palmisano's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

So rich, so beautifully written, so full of challenging but graciously articulated ideas. The audiobook is narrated by the author, whose warm tone and style is delightful, and I'm so glad I heard it. I think I'll get the physical book for future reference since I used my library card for this. There's just too much to think about to hear it only once. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Genocide

Moderate: Animal death and Cannibalism

Minor: Cultural appropriation

littlelarry's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Each chapter held so much good information that I read it slowly and let it all sink in. Loved the combination of science and indigious knowledge. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism

manarnia's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I thought this book was beautiful, important, and informative. I gained a lot from reading it. That being said, I didn't agree with 100% of the arguments put forward, and I also felt that the book could have been shorter.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, and Racism