 Hey, y'all welcome back to conversations with Carrie follow la la la la la la cuz it is Christmas season And your girl is here all for it And hopefully you're having a low break maybe from work or just having some down time And if so your girl got a book review for you. It's the book review time You better get it better get it better get it better get it Y'all I'm coming with such a good book review if you haven't seen killers of the flower moon It's a movie out right now, but I'm the type that I if there's a book that goes along with the movie I want to read the book first because that's just the book nerd in me and let me tell you this book did not disappoint Let me first say This book is a conversation starter. I went to Mali for my birthday with one of my besties and Let me tell you everywhere I went somebody wants to stop me either they've read it or They were talking about reading it or they've heard about it So be prepared that you sit in somewhere like this Somebody's gonna stop you and ask you about this book So for one is a conversation starter if you're the type of bookworm who likes to be by themselves and not be interrupted You better put it down in your lap or cover it up or something Second it does not read like your regular. I guess you could say narrative or historical fiction This one definitely reads like a documentary like it's fast It's like a history paper or a news article and it's so interesting because as I was opening up and they were everybody's talking about how Amazingly written it is. I don't know if I feel like oh my gosh. He wrote it so well It's really the story He does live a leave a lot of cliffhangers and kind of brings like leaves you breadcrumbs as the story goes on Lastly, you know what if you're the type of person who like wants to read about Stories that happened in history that were not included in history books like this was not in my history book I can tell you that much. This is the book for you because it was almost like Reading Like behind the scenes of history like oh my gosh just actually happened So let me tell you what the book is about. I'm gonna try to do without any spoilers now This story is about the the Indians who lived in Osage County in Oklahoma Now also I'm I say Indians some people prefer indigenous people some prefer Native American I'm going to kind of use them interchangeably to respect those who are part of that community to make sure that I make knowledge in the community But they received this this plot of land that nobody else wanted to live on and so they gave it to the Indians and it turns out They don't like a great will take it and it turns out that the land had black gold which is oil on the land So these Native Americans became extremely wealthy, you know And it was multiple families multiple tribes like they were very wealthy because they lived in this area And as they became wealthier Unfortunately people started targeting them and they started dying off and there was like a lot of mystery around their murders They call it that time period the reign of terror, but I love what this book does And I'm trying my best not to give spoiler alerts But the book really goes into detail around those murders how they happened and who they eventually convicted about the murders So I was actually reading this on the train and one person was like gosh It's such a sad ending and I was like, oh, no But I told myself I would not read ahead. So I did not read ahead But I would agree with that person It is a sad ending because it's basically about this amazing community of indigenous people that were you know Swindled out of their money and considered second class or second-rate citizens by the white Population so let me also say if this is the story that may be trigger something you you got some built-up resentment that you need to deal with Child this ain't the story for you You might want to get some healing before you read this book because it can produce feelings of maybe anger or disappointment or frustration. I Think it's interesting that like this author that he gave Life to this story. I often wondered I was like, you know from what I can see it looks like This is a white male who wrote the book and I was thinking to myself I wondered if it would be received as well if it was written by One of the women maybe from the indigenous community or if this was written by one of the men or the nephews or something from the Native American company Me a community would they have received like what this book has been printed, but I'm glad that David Grant took the time to Pin this story because oh my gosh, and I haven't seen the book yet. Me. Excuse me I have not seen the movie yet So please let me know down below if you've seen it and if you feel like and you've read the book Or what you think about either one it has a lot of characters a lot of timelines and a lot of plots But they're all centered around the killings of these Of these Indians for their money base. That's what it comes down to. So Again, there's so much to this also talks about the birth of the FBI and J. J. Edgar Hoover Which to me that was I didn't really know tons about the birth of the FBI, but it really came out of The story so it's I mean it has a lot in this book You're gonna want to Google you're gonna want to like do your own research But I think he did a great job of capturing everything that happened during that time and I'll he even says it in the book Like he's only you know, he's capturing what was actually documented think about what wasn't documented I know there's so much to our history that we don't know, but I highly recommend this Killers of the flower moon you need to check it out I'm gonna see the movie so I can have some type of comparisons. I want to bring life to this But it is every bit of worth the read Give it give this to somebody for the holidays, you know, Merry Christmas. Happy New Year child. Get you a book All right y'all be sure to like and subscribe and check things out. Bye