pickAmerican cemeteries have inspired landscape architecture, poets like Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, and famous parks like Disneyland. They‘re also potent political tools & symbols, from Arlington to the separate African American Graveyard at Monticello. The strange, surprising story of the American cemetery comes alive in this tour across the country, from Savannah to Sleepy Hollow to Hollywood, with a journalist/veteran/grave digger at the wheel!
I found this very cool offering in a local free puzzle library (!!!) and did most of it while I listened to FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS. Alas, it‘s the first Cherie Dimaline novel I‘ve disliked. It offers up some intriguing threads, but the story as a whole fails to satisfying and the prose is so performatively purple that it shut me out of the emotions instead of placing me inside them. Sigh. #audiopuzzling
IDK why, maybe because I'm GenX and did this myself, but I really do enjoy any story that involves wandering a cemetery -- as long as it's not horror, which I guess this might be, but not the kind that would give you nightmares like that. Nay, the nightmares would be the kind where you create problems while you try to solve problems. Into the Bright Open is on my TBR.
I read this back in February, but have been delinquent in posting.
pickI found a lot of this tedious. I expected more Colin Dickey‘s Ghostland, and less cemetery guidebook. The history told here is by turns heartbreaking and rage-inducing - from the anonymity of “enslaved persons” cemeteries, and racial and economic discrimination, to the disrespect shown to the deceased and their living families in the name of capitalism. Yeah - a lot of rage. (August 2024 selection for The Morbidly Curious Bookclub)
panThere were many good threads of a story that never found their destiny.
I loved the Marrow Thieves by this author so I was excited to read this. Paid full price. About half way through and I just find it flat. To continue or no?
pickThis was a rec I saw from a fellow Litten and I enjoyed it a lot! It was really so fascinating. Definitely made me see cemeteries in a new way. I also thought learning the history of it all was so interesting. I weirded my family out as I shared with all of them the various things I learned like how/when embalming bodies started 😂
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Jessica!! This was fantastic! 4 books!!! AND more yummy vegan candy???? Thank you so much for- i feel very lucky i had packages from you! I loved This one as much as the other one! I hope you are having a wonderful Halloween Season! #allhallowsreadswap #ahrs
Thank you Chelle for hosting this fun swap 🖤🧡🖤
I‘m looking to read 20 chapters. Hopefully finished my current book (tagged) and start on my next one. Need to earn some final points for my team
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