Comments on: Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King (plus a giveaway)

By: jewel

jewel — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:39:10 +0000

I am in my third year of my teaching degree and have this book as novel for a English class. Will be doing an essay and I chose water as my topic in the book. Still reading it. Found it a hard to get into for the first hundred pages but now I am really getting into it. For those of you that have not read it I insist on you reading it and don’t give up on the beginning because it does get interesting:).

By: Review: The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King; or, a simple desultory philippic | Reading the End

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:01:31 +0000

[…] is evident from his book Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King is interested in the mythologizing around (American) Indians. If there can be said to […]

By: Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness)

Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:43:03 +0000

I read this one in high school, and I’m actually glad that’s where I first experienced it because I don’t think I would have “gotten” it another way. But maybe I’m smarter than I think 🙂

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:54:55 +0000

In reply to lethe.

Hahaha, your story reminds me of this movie The Fall — have you ever seen it? The frame is that there’s a young man telling a story to a little girl who’s in the same hospital with him. And he’s telling her a story that has Indians in it, and he means American Indians so they do sort of stereotypical American Indian things, but the little girl has only encountered Indians from India, so that’s what she pictures. It’s a charming little piece of business.

I will enter you!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:53:28 +0000

In reply to Care. It was, it was! Such beautiful writing.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:53:13 +0000

In reply to Vasilly. I will enter you! It's wonderful and I bet you would really enjoy it.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:52:36 +0000

In reply to aartichapati. I did, I thought it was really good. Thanks for raving about it! I would never have encountered this book at all if not for bloggers talking about it.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:51:55 +0000

In reply to Eva. Seconded.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:49:25 +0000

In reply to leavesandpages. Huh. Well, they are nowhere to be found in America, although I would like to try his others. Wouldn't you think more copies would have made their way south of the border?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:48:54 +0000

In reply to Word Lily. Me too! Literally for years. I'm glad I finally got to it.