Welcome to Litsy!

Starting this today.

I turned out to be stronger than I thought, but that‘s never a thing you want to have to test.

Leslie‘s husband dies too young, right in the middle of their adoption process of their son, and she grapples with loss while finding the humors in the absurdity of death and grief. I loved her sharp, honest, candid writing style and found so much to relate to. Grief is in many ways universal, and Leslie has a way of sitting in the sadness with you.

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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3310464085

“We end on a high note, having finally gotten a piece of the pie, and everyone is singing and cheering and I‘m laughing so hard I can‘t separate the happy tears from the sad ones, so I take them all together and hope I don‘t drown in them. It seems like good practice.” ❤️

A great, quick read memoir from one of my high school classmates who married and was widowed by another of my high school classmates. Direct and honest, but also not at all depressing.

In fact the memoir isn‘t even mostly about being a widow. Despite the title, the couple was in the process of adopting a boy when Scott died in his 40s, and the impact on the adoption process drove the narrative more than recovery.

Recommended.

I wonder about the financial side of funerals. You generally don‘t have to plan more than one or two in your life, and then you have to get it done right away.

It seems practically impossible to not take advantage of people. Hiding the price until the end seems to be a step in the wrong direction.

Excited to start reading this ARC written by a high school classmate, about her life since being widowed by another high school classmate.