pick3.5⭐️ Read for an online #bookclub; very different from what I usually would read. Thought it was quite good, but the #audiobook was a bit creepy at times (I listened to the audio while I read it). Liked the perspective that it gave. #2025 #genremashup #literary #sciencefiction
so-soI started off really enjoying the book but as it progressed it lost the plot completely. The premise is about living a meaningful life and finding meaning through art, relationships and faith, and defining meaning for life through death (as the title suggests) but the author gets distracted by the frivolous and places emphasis on characters who are inherently meaningless or unlikeable that the message never truly lands.
Birthday hall plus the tagged book which just so happened to arrive on my birthday from the Harvard first editions signed book subscription. My daughter and I are playing hooky from school and work to spa, eat fancy foods, and read 🥳
pickI saved the last hour of the audiobook for my walk home and end up crying so hard that I had to stop walking until I could blink all the tears clear. So - 5 stars, no notes!
Tbh, I wasn‘t sure about Bud in the beginning, if he was a character I wanted to spend time with - but then he hit submit on his own obituary and well, I was hooked.
I keep stumbling into books that explore grief in its many manifestations ⬇️
bailedI am missing something here. Maybe it is my mood. Maybe this just isn't for me. It was my most anticipated book to read this year but it has taken me a month to get 100 pages in and for the last week I have not been able to force myself to pick it back up. There is a distance she is writing from that is making it hard for me to connect or care about this kid.
I do sort of want people to tell me why they find it devastating? Spoil below!
