pickThis a memoir of the power of friendship, about grief and mourning, and how you can go on after losing somebody you love. Recommended.
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship | 
pickThis a memoir of the power of friendship, about grief and mourning, and how you can go on after losing somebody you love. Recommended.
pickYes, this was a tearjerker. A realistic travel through a friendship of two adult flawed women that never felt manipulative. Caroline and Gail were both writers and were bonded by their dogs, nature, and the water.
This just missed being a so-so rating.
Next up, adult female friendship. < 200 pages
pickAs Gail Caldwell so eloquently stated: "We never get over great losses; we absorb them and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures." This is my grandmother whom I think of every day in my tender care of the elderly. I loved, loved, loved this book! Its the perfect testimony, so beautifully stated, about life's most important gifts including love, friendship, attachment, intimacy and on and on. Everyone needs to read it, I think.
"It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too."-Gail Caldwell...Time for one of my favorite kind of books...
Pulling my stack together for this weekend's #24in48readathon - add to this audio and ebooks. I always choose too many so this time I'm trying not to go overboard. LOL. #24in48 #thebibliophage #readathon #bookish
My opening answers are posted here: http://thebibliophage.com/24in48-readathon-july-2017/
This was definitely one that got to me. #riotgrams #bookthatmadeyoucry I have bought and given this book as a gift so many times.
That moment when you spread out your loot from the annual Friends of the Library book sale and it further complicates your what do I read next dilemma. Not sure whether I'll read Pollan again, I buy his books to give them away and hope they are as meaningful to others as they are to me.
pickI love Gail Caldwell's honesty in this emotionally bare memoir. I, too, lost my 'chosen' sister - to melanoma - when she was just 52. Gail's words perfectly captured the pain and grief I experienced. Reading someone else's similar journey so beautifully articulated made me feel 'less alone.'
