The Afterlives: A Novel | 
pickI really enjoyed this book!! Highly recommend the audio format, the performance and certain aspects of the audio were absolutely wonderful and effective! I‘m not sure about the ending, I kind of felt like the story kind of ran out of steam? But overall a wonderful story about grief, loss, death, and being human. 💜
This book wasn‘t billed as a scary book, I don‘t think?? But I have to tell you guys I‘m reading in audio format and…. I just got so freaked out I have chills and I got a bit tearful!? Now, I will grant you that I‘m a real wimp when it comes to scary things but still!!! Ok, I‘m taking a deep breath and unpausing….
Day 10 - Drag Me To Hell
Jim Byrd is a 33 year old loan officer who wakes up with a high-tech defibrillator in his heart after going into cardiac arrest for a few minutes. After that, he begins to wonder if the world he's living in is real or if his brain is playing tricks on him.
#horrorseason
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Someone disapproves of where my attention currently is. #dogsoflitsy #Riley
1 - 📗 tagged, 📕 Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire, 🎧 The Three Body Problem
2 - rounding up, The Deep by Rivers Solomon
3 - no summary on the back of the book, just frothy useless bit-reviews (AND STICKERS)
Better late than never 😂
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“Still, too much happiness could be dangerous. Because whenever I felt too happy, inevitably I would begin to wonder if the happiness was real. If any of this was real.” 👻🔮🌼
Lovely, well-written intersection between a romance and meditations on death. Is the universe just a “pair of old pants, a bald patch on the knee?” Is there crossover between the material and immaterial? Are we really all here?
Started this yesterday. A first novel that explores what, if anything, happens after we die. What‘s out there and waiting? Very well written and I‘m excited to see how it plays out
pickI almost quit on this book. 10 pages in, I was looking around for something else to read, but decided to give it to page 50 at least, & boy am I glad I did! Smart & deeply affecting, a story that delves into our anxieties about death & what happens after, with a love story woven in. Vaguely reminiscent of The Time Traveller's Wife. If you love #litfic, this one's for you!!
"We are here for the heat. For the friction. For the difficult mess."
A sampling of my local library's most recent Lucky Day shelf! Which would you choose? #librarylove
Signatures are fascinating. Ready to start this baby!
pickWhat an unexpected read. It was thought provoking and makes you take a look at what might happen when you die. Great read, and would highly recommend.
pickReally liked this! Pierce‘s writing is lovely, and his characters felt very real (even as their world seemed super unreal by our standards). Despite a very different approach to the topic/setting/tone, elements of this book‘s portrayal of the life/afterlife relationship reminded of me of The Leftovers - not the book, which I haven‘t read, but the HBO series, which I recently bingewatched and LOVED - and that made me enjoy this book even more.
pickA smart, funny and imaginative work of speculative fiction written for those of us who battle the existential dread of knowing that one day we and everyone we love will die—those of us who don't have the comfort of a firm belief in any sort of afterlife. The technology aspects are intriguing and thoughtful, and the parts about marriage and love are insightful and relatable. Pierce took on an ambitious topic and handled it with deftness and heart.
pickI just finished the ARC for this, which releases next week, after it had been waiting for me to read for months, and I‘m basically speechless. I should‘ve read it as soon as I got it! It almost defies description but it can be described as sci-fi as well as a portrait of a marriage, and includes everything from ghosts to holograms, and questions what happens to us when we die with a good dose of humor! Full review http://bit.ly/AfterlivesReview
pick3.5 ⭐️ I wish this had two things: more developed, main characters; and a stronger ending. I love the premise of this novel and the style it‘s written in. A serious and fatal heart condition causes Jim to closely examine his own existence and the very meaning of life and what happens “after.” I wanted to know Jim and Annie much more than what I got here! Set in a near but imaginable future.
“I‘ll just pop into Value Village and see if there are any good books...” aaaand I come out with FIVE. Well I had to because if you buy four, you get one free. So, #bookhaul! And three of them are ARCs! I‘m so happy because I had ‘Paradox Bound‘ as an e-galley so I‘m happy to have the real thing, can‘t wait to read Afterlives, and I STILL have yet to read ‘Ready Player One‘! All for $12!! SCORE.
Severus is trying to distract me from reading. But it isn't going to work because I need to know what this book is about.
