But every family has a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they are gone.
(This pulled me in right away. I often wonder about this)
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But every family has a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they are gone.
(This pulled me in right away. I often wonder about this)
pickNurse Julie started her career in ICU. After some painful experiences she observed with other patients, she knew she wanted to take another approach to care: the most important care we so often don‘t talk about: care for the dying. So began her work in hospice! I follow her socials and recommend it as it is very educational. As a hospice volunteer, I was already familiar with many things in this book, but, there is always more to learn, ⬇️
Prompt: Scientist
#CharacterCharm
It‘s not that I am a perfectionist, I‘m just determined to get them all done is all. Is this denial or rationalization or both.
I‘m thinking this counts for the Prompt: Time Travel
#CharacterCharm
I have loved his books but have not read this one.
I am going to put it in my Book Bingo @TheAromaofBooks
I‘m thinking this counts for the Prompt: Time Travel
I have loved his books but have not read this one.
I am going to put it in my Book Bingo @TheAromaofBooks
so-soThis was just so-so for me. Because it was quite slow-slow. Excellent message though, I just found the MC uninteresting. (32)
⭐️: 3/5
pickLow pick; the narrator Greg was almost insufferable but I was definitely Team Earl! Read for the Banned Book category of #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge #Aug2023 Book77
pickI just loved this. The initial humor makes room for more depth than I was expecting. Bud is an obituary writer. And after a botched blind date he drunkenly pens his own obituary and manages to publish it. Put on leave from his job, Bud has some time to spend with friends, start a funeral attendance habit, and examine his own life. The question: in light of your own mortality, how does one make a meaningful life?
But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims if a person‘s life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.
panI lost my brother 10 days ago, on August 10th, from Glioblastoma. Since I knew he wouldn't be here much longer, I got this book, thinking it would help me. The book needed to be edited better. There were sentences that were missing words, sentences that were half duplicated. There was info that I found beneficial in my early days of grief. Even though we had grown apart as adults, we still were brother and sister. That sibling ⬇️
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