pickA look at the funny side of death including historic funerary practices, unhinged obituaries, unusual funerals, and out-of-pocket deathbed confessions.
If you‘re a fan of Caitlin Doughty, you‘ll enjoy this book.
Our July bookclub read picked by Peter. It was made into a movie by Pedro Amoldovar called The Room Next Door with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. Want to read the book before seeing the movie.
pick4.25/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘
“Yes, but life and death are lovers, kismet. They always choose each other in the end.”
#fantasy #romance #dystopian #death
1) reading Mark Twain with my family
2) My porch!
3) Now that I am experiencing leisurely mornings,I am using my tea cups-memories of tea or coffee with my Mom
4) Survived 98+ degree day last weekend at our Hartford City Football game was worth it!! We won 4-nil.
5) My library is giving out all kinds of bookmarks & historical buttons for Pride month. Love them!!!
Here‘s a song to reflect my feelings as I post this:
https://youtu.be/uTUJjHwMn6E
pickAlso from last w/e on my multiple 📕 swap raid on the way home from 🩰. I want to see the tagged book‘s play these hols but it‘s sold out already! I will try to get to Prima Facie before it sells out. The 🐧 is to add to my collection & the recipe 📖 is for my sista 🦊 & I to test out when I visit her these hols to watch my niece‘s full dress rehearsal for Frozen Disney Junior as because of my rehearsals during term I can‘t get to the show itself.
so-soA cool concept that left me wanting more out of the narrative at the end. I suppose the best explanation, without giving too much away, is that it devolves into more typical YA tropes. It could have been so much more. Silvera and I share an understanding of death… it‘s his “living” definition that left me unsatisfied.
pickJust purchased these books to share with incoming Kindy parents at an orientation session next term. Love my job (most of the time 😉) 🥰.
pickI loved this book. Meet Bud, an obituary writer with a wry sense of humor and an amazing circle of friends. He‘s all about life and death, living and dying. I even wrote down this quote “We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom.” Did I mention that I loved this book? I cried through the last 50 pages. I even loved the author‘s note and the acknowledgments!
pickApologies for the awful image!
I was absorbed in this, couldn't predict what would happen or to whom.
I didn't expect to enjoy it and was very pleasantly taken with the way the premise played out.
I've watched a few of her adaptations and read the Apples one but this was much better!
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