Welcome to week four, you can find links to the previous three posts at the bottom. We continue on the emotional merry-go-round. Last week focused on the wise and calming books, so this week we’re turning to darker topics. Books about death, dying and grieving. Surprisingly some of them actually offer a lot of consolation …
Continue reading Books for the Lockdown – Death, Dying and Grieving
I lay back, resigned, and wished my wife wasn't dead. I wished I wasn't lying terrified in a giant bird embrace in my hallway. I wished I hadn't been obsessing about this thing just when the greatest tragedy of my life occurred. These were factual yearnings. It was bitterly wonderful. I had some clarity. But …
Continue reading Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter – Quotes
It took me a few months to review this book (I read it in December 2018), the reason for it is twofold: on one hand, I was dreading reviewing it, as with every book I loved, on the other every time I opened it on a random page to refresh my memory of it I …
Continue reading Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter
Yes, I know it is 21st January, but between summarizing 2018 and planning for 2019 and moving house I just didn't get round to this post in time. But then, why should it mean skipping it 😉 December was not bad reading-wise, I'm sure the holiday season helped with that. I managed to read seven …
I only just managed to finish my 2018 project, having missed a few months in the middle of the year I had a crazy catch up in October. Then in November, I had to make another change to my plans, but in December, for the last stretch, I managed to get back on track. I …
Continue reading Liberia – 12 bookshops for 12 months – December
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