There have been many highs and lows, but I wanted to talk today about 5 ways grief has affected my reading in 2022. Continue reading
Tag Archives: books about grief
A Review of “Isaac and the Egg”: Magic realism and grief
When I started to see this book around my local independent bookstores, I was intrigued but unsure. The blurb does not give much away so you might not think it is a book about grief, alien eggs, or magic realism. It wasn’t until a friend of mine read this book and told me about it, … Continue reading
8 Ways to Help Someone Who is Grieving
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of these links, I might make a small commission from the sale. This helps me directly fund this blog. I write this from someone who has lost a father at age 24 and a brother at 34. I write this as someone who has … Continue reading
A Review of “The Dead Wife’s Handbook”: Moving through grief with the aid of fiction
I bought this book in the first few months after arriving in Switzerland at the giant English bookshop, that used to be located on the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich. I was so intrigued by the idea of a dead person narrating a book. The dead couldn’t talk. I tried to read the first chapter of the … Continue reading