pick#BookReport
I picked up the tagged book after reading an interview she did. I am glad I read it but reviewing it would be impossible. The other finish this week was a balm of romantic nonsense to counteract the deep theme of the other. I am caught up on all my buddy reads but decided Grapes is too much for now. Still no progress on JA‘s bookshelf.
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
pickI have no words that can adequately review this memoir. A mother who lost her only two sons to suicide…beyond unimaginable. So I quoted some of her own words. It‘s the best I can muster. Highly recommend. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickYiyun Li had endured more in her life than I can fathom and yet she is able to go on. This book about the deaths by suicide of both of her sons years apart is told matter of factly but that doesn‘t make it emotionless. For me it amplified the sentences that hit me hard, as if they snuck up on you. Thoughtful and reflective and like nothing I have read before.
Was hoping I might be able to use this for some of the teens I work with but it‘s too “much” for adolescent community mental health. Kate Bornstein is straight up truth.
#grateful
Poe had an echocardiogram today so was at the vet‘s all day. We are awaiting results. The Vet again had to drain lots more fluid from his chest which is not a good sign. We are so happy he is home with us for now. Enjoying the “now” (Yiyun Li) with him.
Time to bundle up- 32 this morning. The real Poe is huddled next to a steaming radiator in the kitchen. Smart cat, that Poe! #10BeforetheEnd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWZEzT1CTs
Intro
Mystery guest
Weekly highlights
Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig
About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler
Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan
Resonances
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Gaza Weddings: A Novel by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Birdeye by Judith Heneghan
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
...etc
pickThis is a haunting, lyrical story set on the Irish Kerry cliffs. Micheál, a reluctant guardian of a suicide blackspot, inherits his late mother‘s grim duty of watching and intervening when he can.
Torn between family estrangement, personal grief, and the suffocating pull of home, Micheál‘s silence speaks volumes. I‘ll be thinking of this for a while.
