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Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion

Starting this while watching football #authoramonth

AmyG I love to read while watching football. 5d

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Wildful | Kengo Kurimoto

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Wildful, by Kengo Kurimoto (2024 🇨🇦)
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Premise: A suburban teenager learns to connect with nature, and with her grieving mother in the process.

Review: This is a delightful graphic novel powered by its illustrations more than its writing. There‘s nothing new or startling in this book but it‘s a great reminder of the wonder that is available all around us if we choose to see it.

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sdbruening

It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand | Megan Devine

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This book is really great and fitting if you‘ve experienced unexpected loss. I wouldn‘t say it fits all kinds of grief, but it is the best book I‘ve read specifically for that kind of grief. I was nodding my head through most of this book in agreement and understanding.

DrSabrinaMoldenReads I would recommend this for you. I think you would love her writing about her grief. Thanks for this.

H is for Hawk

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fredthemoose

Memorial Days: A Memoir | Geraldine Brooks

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a Litsy find I picked up after seeing @TEArificbooks post about it. Lovely memoir weaving together the pieces together timeline of the unexpected death of the author‘s husband while they were apart, and her sojourn to Flinders Island three years later when she finally stopped to grieve and heal. #nfn #nonfictionnovember

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DoonTheGoon

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief | Francis Weller

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Grief is a process we all experience - and Weller's ability to talk about it with compassion shines through in this book. I particularly enjoyed the poetry references throughout this book - it brought a distinct humanity to the otherwise difficult subject matter.

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Hi, It's Me: A Novel | Fawn Parker

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Hi, It‘s Me, by Fawn Parker (2024 🇨🇦)
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Premise: A young woman goes to visit the feminist commune where her mother spent her final months, while battling grief and demons of her own.

Review: This is a strange book and I don‘t know what to make of it. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday It feels like a fever dream, with more happening than seems possible in the time purported to have elapsed. The main character is also dealing with a lot, and is certainly not a reliable narrator. I think there was a lot here, and I think it will stay with me in some powerful ways, but I wish the ideas she explored were spun into three different books. 3w

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Yenya1954

The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion

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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. It was the way her thoughts ran during the year after her husband died. I didn‘t enjoy it. I kept going in the hopes I would find something to attach myself too. Sadly, that didn‘t happen. 3/5⭐️

Texreader I felt the same way about this one 3w

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