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
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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
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?
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pickIf there‘s a Daisy Jones & The Six or The Final Revival of Opal & Nev shaped hole in your heart, this might fill it. The first part felt a bit hazy with the second part feeling frenzied, though I did find pretty much every single person in the book unlikeable.
My fourth read for #14books14weeks
pickBud Stanley writes obituaries for a paper. After a bad breakup, a disastrous date, and one too many Scotches, he accidentally publishes his own obituary. The paper tries to fire him—only to find he‘s now listed as dead and can‘t be fired. Stuck in a bureaucratic mess, Bud tries to find meaning in living. This sounds sad but it‘s actually funny too!
Good recommendation @Lesliereadsalot
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pickYou either love or hate Ali Smith. I love her. This was a delight to read, I flew through this short dystopia novel about 2 siblings navigating the world on their own. 4 🌟
pickThis book reminded me a lot of Mikki Brammer‘s ‘The Collected Regrets of Clover‘. Bud writes about death every day—obituaries are his career. And yet, he has no idea how to live. After a mistaken publishing of a self-obituary, his life changes…one funeral at a time. After attending a series of funerals for people he doesn‘t know, he starts to think more about life. But only after the death of a special friend does he finally begin to live.
There is an obituary to write. I want to do it in a way that reminds anyone who reads it that that person‘s life mattered, that we won‘t forget. It is so easy to forget. We are all obituary writers because we get to write our life every day. Write it. Please. It‘s your life. Also, it will make my job easier.
