Sheila Regan reviews Louise Erdrich’s book A Plaue of Doves; the New York Times also has good things to say about it. Anybody read it yet? What’s your opinion of Erdrich in general, and what do you particularly like, or dislike, by the author?
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Depends on who's doin' the preachin', I suppose.
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Nah. Just the usual stereotype of people sucking off the taxpayers' teat.
Or guilty ones.
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2 Reader Comments
1:40 pm
I like most stuff by Louise Erdrich. I haven’t read this one, but eventually will.
She owns or is somehow related to Birchbark Books and if I remember and can afford it, I buy her books there.
3:11 pm
I started it and couldn’t get into it.
We were talking at MNRead that one of the next meetings could be having everyone read one Erdich book and meet on that.