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Worryingly, there's no note from the Thieves Guild in the box. 🤔🦧 Maybe they remembered that I got two notes in one package last time I ordered.

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, by Aubrey Hartman (2025)
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Premise: An undead fox who ushers the souls of animals into their best fit of four afterlifes (peace, pleasure, progress, and pain) is disturbed by a prophecy of great upheaval followed by the arrival of a plucky badger who can‘t seem to enter any of the realms.

Review: This is so charming, with a dash of spooky, and a powerful message for kids of all ages. ⬇️

Clover is a death doula in NYC who has neglected living her own life in favor of shepherding the dying through their deaths. We meet her as she is meeting the special set of people who will propel her to take up her own life again. I liked but didn‘t love this. I was expecting a deeper story but a lighter touch. Instead, it was fluffier than expected and a little heavy handed with the “embrace life” message. Still worth reading, a soft pick.

Carrie, didn‘t you recommend this to me? If not, oops 😂 We chatted about a bunch of books when #ALSpine started and I seem to remember this being one of them. ANYWAY! It was fantastic! If it was you, thanks 😊 @CSeydel #TBRtarot

This book was probably funny, poignant, irreverent, and wise, but it didn't hit me at the right time in my life, and I couldn't enjoy it as much. I didn't want to read about death and the meaning of life and the average guy feeling sorry for himself. Not the book's fault. I read it for a book club.

I really just feel like reading about dragons or something.🐲

#5JoysFriday

1) glorious sunrise this week
2) the moon last night
3) Poe & I snuggling
4) that first morning sip of coffee!
5) Escapades of Tommy & Tuppence
All healing moments. Especially Tues when Dems showed up in full force! #resist Huge #joy

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⭐️

Not new, but new to me.
“With all of my heart, I believe it is true that there is a heaven for animals too.”
“You‘ll grow older, I will, too. But when you meet your friends again, they‘ll see you as they saw you then.
And you‘ll find they always knew how much they were loved…and how much they loved you.”
(I really hope so.)

When I die, freeze dry my body and turn me into fertilizer for a tree.

Roach's exploration of what happens to human bodies postmortem is fascinating, and often stomach churning, and definitely makes you think. The audio narration is wonderful, the casual conversational style matching with Roach's wry humour, but also showcasing the curiosity that drives her books.