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I read this one as I waited for the girls during their library program. Momento moris have always fascinated me. Often, a person didn‘t have their photo taken until death. It‘s an odd thing to think about when we are so used to having our pictures taken, sometimes multiple times per day!

While I'm here on this book being my 300th read this year, this is a wild one. WILD. A collection of mid 19th and early 20th century post-mortem death photography portraits, kind of wild. 1st part are the photos, 2nd part are the captions to the photos, 3rd part is timeline of death in America, 4th part is a photo identification guide. Wild stuff. This is book 1, published in 1990, of a three-part series. 💀 perfect fall reading! Check ur library!

Hey look what happened today!! I hit 300 read this year!!! Woop woop. Again, my disclaimer here is that I am an unemployed (have been in the madness of job searching the last three months tho!!) college drop out, so I have a ~lot~ of time to read. And I do read a lot. I also read a lot of comic trades, so these aren't all 400 page great novels or whatever. Many are 150-200 page comics and graphic novels. Be proud of your progress 💝

My husband and I are waaaay into cemeteries (and he does cemetery law for his job), so we have TONS of death books. But my favorite, since I collect mourning and post-mortem photographs, is Sleeping Beauty by Stanley Burns. #junebookbugs