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Bit different than the usual, but while we were getting hit with the remains of that tropical storm I had to turn all the electronics off and so I had the time to read a physical book so I did.
This one has been sitting on my shelf since 2014 and I only just got around to reading it RIP.
It is The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles De Lint and illustrated by Charles Vess.
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TLDR:
Rating the artwork as its own thing- 4/5
Rating the text- 2/5
Average- 3/5
I wont be reading it again, thats for sure, but im glad I finally got around to it.
Its glaring issues overshadow the lovely prose and the little morsels of good storytelling to the point were a potentially amazing tale has been reduced to 'meh its native appropriating and doesn't have enough cats, read something else'.
If anyone has recs for books by Native Americans/First Nation people about NDN-flavored fantasy/folktale stuff I will gladly put it on my to-read list.
This one has been sitting on my shelf since 2014 and I only just got around to reading it RIP.
It is The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles De Lint and illustrated by Charles Vess.
( Read more... )
TLDR:
Rating the artwork as its own thing- 4/5
Rating the text- 2/5
Average- 3/5
I wont be reading it again, thats for sure, but im glad I finally got around to it.
Its glaring issues overshadow the lovely prose and the little morsels of good storytelling to the point were a potentially amazing tale has been reduced to 'meh its native appropriating and doesn't have enough cats, read something else'.
If anyone has recs for books by Native Americans/First Nation people about NDN-flavored fantasy/folktale stuff I will gladly put it on my to-read list.
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