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Reading Wednesday
Jul. 14th, 2021 08:36 amJust finished: The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker. I loved this one, obviously. She's just doing so many things I like (including, as I said last week, things that make the book riskier and less marketable) and I am here for it.
My one criticism is ( spoiler ) But beyond that, it was gorgeous, expansive, and engrossing.
Toronto At Dreamer's Rock / Education Is Our Right by Drew Hayden Taylor. Two one-act plays from the late 90s—one is a meeting between three teenage boys—one from the present, one from before colonization, and one from the future; the other, a piece about the Tory policy to cap post-secondary education funding for Indigenous students. They're accessible and didactic, like almost all political theatre, and very much a product of their time, but I enjoyed them and I think the kids would too.
Currently reading: Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry This Place, edited by Denise Bolduc, Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere, Rebeka Tabobondung, Brian Wright-McLeod and John Lorinc. This is an excellent series of essays on the Indigenous history and present in Toronto, including pre-colonization settlement, the grotesque scam of the Toronto Purchase, and current accounts of Indigenous communities and cultures. I'm only a few essays in but it's great so far. I mean, it's horrifying, because even given the history of land theft and genocide in Canada, Toronto was a particularly bad one, but it's very well-written and informative.
My one criticism is ( spoiler ) But beyond that, it was gorgeous, expansive, and engrossing.
Toronto At Dreamer's Rock / Education Is Our Right by Drew Hayden Taylor. Two one-act plays from the late 90s—one is a meeting between three teenage boys—one from the present, one from before colonization, and one from the future; the other, a piece about the Tory policy to cap post-secondary education funding for Indigenous students. They're accessible and didactic, like almost all political theatre, and very much a product of their time, but I enjoyed them and I think the kids would too.
Currently reading: Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry This Place, edited by Denise Bolduc, Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere, Rebeka Tabobondung, Brian Wright-McLeod and John Lorinc. This is an excellent series of essays on the Indigenous history and present in Toronto, including pre-colonization settlement, the grotesque scam of the Toronto Purchase, and current accounts of Indigenous communities and cultures. I'm only a few essays in but it's great so far. I mean, it's horrifying, because even given the history of land theft and genocide in Canada, Toronto was a particularly bad one, but it's very well-written and informative.
