The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World: A Novel | 
As January draws near, I‘m getting excited for the #AuldLangSpine partner reading challenge! From @pogue's list of ten books, I‘ve read just one so far: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. I own these two: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins and Out There Screaming, and they've been sitting on my TBR shelf for over a year. Another, The Overstory, is on my general TBR list. (continued in comments)....
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pickThis book is about grief and how hopefully, you learn to live with it. From the author “For me, the Wind Phone is mainly this: a metaphor that suggests how precious it is to hold on tight to joy as well as pain.”
pickThis I give 5 stars too. This book is one I will recommend for people who are grieving. It is full of loss, hope, love and joy.
Our librarian was inspired by this book to build a wind phone. Several village mental health counselors worked with her to get funds from the Selectboard & the State of Vermont as a way for young & old to express their grief or their problems into the phone. A child recently spent time talking with their cat who had recently died. We‘ve had many villagers pass away recently & the phone is being used a lot. The start of a zen garden is in front.
pickSuch a wonderful book. I really enjoyed it.
pickA wonderful, easy, and emotional read. This book helped me through a lot of loss and grief. A wonderful book to show how complicated emotions can be, but how simple life really. 💕
pickA very touching story about loss and second chances inspired by the tragic earthquake which occurred in March 2011 in Japan.
Yui is a radio broadcaster in Tokyo submerged by the loss of her daughter and mother to the tsunami. She hears about a phone booth that isn't connected to anything and where many come to confide their voice to the wind and talk to the ones they lost.
If curious how the actual Phone of the Wind looks like: bell-gardia.jp
I was really interested in this premise - a garden with a phone booth where people can speak to their dead- , but the writing just didn‘t do it for me. It was very slow in a way that I didn‘t feel like served the story and I never felt fully connected to any individual character. I do know it‘s based on a real place and this novel did increase my curiosity in learning more at the very least.
pickThere is a phone booth in Japan where people go to speak to their lost loved ones. Built after the tsunami it is a spiritual site for many. This is a story of several people who move through their life, visiting the phone booth, trying to recover from their loss, and finding love again. Can you surrender to love when you‘ve already had to surrender a loved one to death?
pick10 years ago an enormous tsunami swept through Japan. This is the story of the healing and hope that can follow after such a loss.
This story follows the developing relationship of Yui and Takeshi. Their lives together show you can rebuild a life that is different than what came before. But it is no less meaningful for being that. And we see how dealing with grief is not a linear path. Grief curls down, arcs sideways, & moves forward. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
It‘s raining outside. Time to sit down with some hot chocolate and see if I can‘t finish this book. 🌧
I got this as an eARC, 20% into the book I ordered it from Book depository. I loved the idea behind it, the choice of phrases, character development.... Everything. What I really want is to find more books similar to this. Any ideas?
1. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
2. Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele
3. The Dead Cat Tail Assassin by P Djeli Clark
4. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
5. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
6. Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford
7. The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
8. The Overstory by Richard Powers
9. Sourdough by Robin Sloan
10. The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imani Messina 1w