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Hogfather | Terry Pratchett
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#tlt @dabbe
15/100 for me. Let's I've been meaning to get around to. Join in if you haven't played yet.

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emilycoc
The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold
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My next read is another re-read. I think I have a pretty good memory of this one, but we'll see! (Don't mind my phone charger in the way of the picture) #BookElevenOf2025

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Kris10H
Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty
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There are a lot of really good things about this novel, including how it made me think about life, mortality, and destiny. It probably would have hit me differently at another point in my life, but between beginning and ending the book, I lost my father to cancer. It really affected how I received the story.

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kspenmoll
Gratitude | Oliver Sacks
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Today I feel spring around the corner- reached 71 today. I feel exhilaration after attending a protest in Hartford, always coffee, the “ Robert Tree” our Magnolia is starting to bloom, kitties, tonight‘s sunset, Litsy friends, the ocean at Banks Street Beach, Harwich Port,Cape Cod,books!, my first porch day with coffee & a book, sisters, hummingbirds yet to visit my garden. #hope #joy #love #gratitude #resist #nature #moodboardcontest #mbc

dabbe What a lovely board of joys and loving life. Thanks for sharing yourself. 🩵💙🩵 5d
Lesliereadsalot I love your porch! 5d
julieclair Love this! 5d
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Lizwarnerpdx
Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty
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Such a great author. It always feels weird to enjoy books that are about death, but this is written in such an entertaining and comedic way.

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Jas16
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When my father was dying a friar at work would check on me and tell me stories about when he was a hospital chaplain. I am not religious but those stories provided me much comfort. I thought of them as I read this. Clover is a death doula and ensures a positive end of life for her patients, whatever that looks like for them. Her own life could use help as she has cut herself off from the world. Reflective yet still light, this was a joy to read.

Jas16 Thank you again @AmyG 6d
AmyG You are so welcome. 😘 6d
Suet624 Sounds lovely. I‘ve spent time with dying friends and it‘s a sacred experience. 6d
Lesliereadsalot Really liked this one! 6d
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LapReader
The Children | Charlotte Wood
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Today‘s Book Nook scores to entertain myself over my quiet Easter weekend. Yin yoga this morning really helped with my dicky hip. I need to get myself sorted as I got myself a showgirl gig. It may just be the greatest achievement of my life! The Angelica Banks and Judy Blume are for my book crazy niece. I could have filled another bag but it may not have been a good look. Libraries are the best invention ever. Medicine is great but books are fab.

Bookwormjillk Good luck with your gig! 6d
CarolynM Some great titles there! Congrats on the showgirl gig, sounds like fun 💃 6d
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Robotswithpersonality
When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi
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Oh, this feels weird. I've certainly read other books by people who have already passed, and even one or two by people who knew they were dying, but I'm not sure I've encountered one where the act of dying was so much the focus. Critiquing a dying man's words feels...wrong.
For the most part, I'm not certain what might be viewed as a critique is anything more than a difference in option on two points. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Paul's identity, at least as it's presented in his writing in this book, was very much caught up in his work, his ability, his perspective as a neurosurgeon and a caring physician meant an unflinching understanding of prognoses in the pursuit of quality of life, which meant that often his phrasing around the cognitive function of patients is a clinical assessment, and yet it resembles ableist language I've seen before. 6d
Robotswithpersonality 3/? While his quotations bridge both secular literature and scripture, his conclusions around the necessity of even scienitists believing in God to acknowledge a meaningful, loving existence felt not just insupportable but offensive to this atheist reader. A difference of opinion certainly.
I am grateful for the epilogue written by Lucy, his wife's, point of view, because it provides the acknowledgement
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? of both the limited time available to Paul to write the book, and its value as is, the fact that it was written focusing on a brief period under the specific conditions, with that specific priorities of a specific human being at that time.
We can't experience death before our time, and another's experiences can only ever be a possible touchstone for our own approach to end of life, but it's still encouraging to know people who care,
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Robotswithpersonality 5/5 about their families, about their careers, doctors who care about patients, about the future of medical science, who see the future they've planned wiped away and still find reasons for enjoyment in existence.
⚠️death, grief, descriptions of medical procedures and terminal illness
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Robotswithpersonality
When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi
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kspenmoll
Gratitude | Oliver Sacks
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#5joysfriday #gratitude #Joy

Top row: 3 days on Cape Cod, MA with my 3 sisters! 💕💕💕💕
Bottom row: all today- in the 50s, my first day of the season on my porch. Neighbors out walking, bikers cycling by, birds singing. Coffee & a book! 🚶🏻‍♀️🚴‍♂️☕️📘 🪶🐦‍⬛🎶☀️ A taste of spring…

MemoirsForMe Love your sister family photo! 💛 7d
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 7d
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