Comments on: Heart Berries: A Memoir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/#comment-287080 Wed, 16 May 2018 01:45:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10607#comment-287080 In reply to susan.

Wow. OK, you got it exactly. Alexie wrote the foreword for her. And I definitely think it had a Native American ‘spoken’ feel to it.

]]> By: susan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/#comment-287077 Tue, 15 May 2018 21:53:51 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10607#comment-287077 Hmm. Some of the poetic / & verbal parts you describe with this one remind me a bit of the Shermie Alexie memoir I listened to as an audiobook last year. It’s different but it is neat & powerful at times to hear the poetic parts too … that these Native American writers seem to share.

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/#comment-287073 Sun, 13 May 2018 00:30:51 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10607#comment-287073 In reply to Amy @ Read a Latte.

She has a truly unique style of writing. I wondered if it was due to her Native American background and the practice of sharing history verbally. It’s really hard to describe but if you read it I hope you like it!

]]> By: Amy @ Read a Latte https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/#comment-287070 Fri, 11 May 2018 02:09:05 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10607#comment-287070 Oooh this sounds exactly like something I would love right now! Definitely adding it to my list!

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/#comment-287069 Fri, 11 May 2018 01:10:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10607#comment-287069 In reply to Lynn.

How wonderful that you got to meet her! That is interesting insight because in just reading the book, I didn’t get a sense that her husband was a great guy. It felt like he didn’t want to marry, might have been cheating. It reinforces my feeling that I wasn’t always sure what I was reading.

]]> By: Lynn https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/05/heart-berries-memoir/#comment-287068 Thu, 10 May 2018 16:48:15 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10607#comment-287068 I am almost finished with this one and was soooo amazed! I love the sparse prose and felt I could relate to quite a few of her experiences and feelings. How brave to ‘bare her soul’ as she has done. I had the best time speaking with her a couple of weeks ago at our local bookstore. Her youngest son was definitely playin’ to the crowd and entertaining us all. I agree with your insight that this was more conversational in nature than most writing. (I felt it was somewhat similar to Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street.) I so admire her husband…much as I admired my own uncle for remaining faithful to my aunt who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He and her older son kinda hung in the background while she talked with us readers. And the end! Oh, my…I have no idea how to survive such acts, especially from your own father. 🙁

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