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book beginnings on Friday: Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life...
Thanks to Rose City Reader for hosting this meme. To participate, share the first line or two of the book you are currently reading and, if you feel so moved, let us know what your first impressions...
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life by Haider Warraich
This interdisciplinary study of death and how we can improve–not avoid–it is highly readable and timely. In Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life, Haider Warraich explores how human death...
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A synchronicity: my father sent me a recently published essay by Scott Russell Sanders that coincides with some reading and thinking I’ve been doing lately. The essay occurred in the Autumn 2018 issue...
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Cygnet by Season Butler
An island of elderly separatists and one teenaged girl face essential human angst in this remarkable debut novel. Cygnet is a powerful, poignant, smart debut novel by Season Butler. Her protagonist,...
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by...
The heavy questions about death and dead bodies are answered with honesty and hilarity by the creator of the webseries “Ask a Mortician,” for children and adults. Caitlin Doughty wrote Smoke Gets in...
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Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
Thanks to blog reader Annie Long for the excellent recommendation. This is a sad, sweet book with an accurately written first-person child protagonist struggling with loss and grief, and with a...
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Night Rooms: Essays by Gina Nutt
These 18 essays about gender, horror, grief and much more are thought-provoking, discomfiting and lovely. Gina Nutt’s Night Rooms is a startling collection of 18 essays ruminating on life experiences,...
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This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
A family struggles to honor the loss of one of their own and a remarkable boy works to solve the puzzle of the meaning of life in this poignant, loving debut novel. Harriet Kline’s This Shining Life...
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Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
TJ Klune is my comfort food reading these days. Under the Whispering Door has all the charm of The House in the Cerulean Sea but a new focus: end of life, death, grief and grieving, and the questions...
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Maureen by Rachel Joyce
Following The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012) and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (2014), the recently released Maureen completes a trilogy of novels about pain, loss, forgiveness,...
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