Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

12 reviews

daniellelikesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

orangepeaches's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is really informative in the native ways of thought and theory. I'm reading it for a native American Literature class and it really is a decolonized lens through the whole book. Everything is cyclical and the timeline is jumbled but in a way the story makes sense and shows growth, place, and time as cyclical. Most of the book I would say is also dedicated to the place, the setting, in that there is strong connections to the land and the place the story occupies. It is a story of resistance healing and love at the end of it all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Grief, and War

Minor: Death, Racism, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Colonisation

laindarko2's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, and War

coolfijiwater's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Vomit

dxlltopia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Car accident, and Colonisation

cmbohn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Racism, and Colonisation

katharina90's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

I just couldn't connect with this one. I found the nonlinear storytelling hard to follow which definitely wasn't helping.

The audiobook narration was very oldschool. Announcements like "this is the end of disc 1" were a real throwback.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual content

c_lizziebeth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Genocide, Racism, Torture, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Minor: Gun violence

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, War, and Classism

helenasiuzmu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, and Colonisation