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What an empathetic book! How tender. How bittersweet. How deeply poignant. For a book so absorbed with death, it's strangely life affirming, and isn't that such a wonderful paradox? It emanates such fierce humanity that it's a palpable thing, an innate goodness that you get to hold in your hands with all the messy complications of this equally terrifying and wonderful business we call life and death. I can't resist returning again and again 🫖.

Love this 💙🫖.

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❤️👻🫖

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I love this journey more than anything, which is why I can't resist returning to this cosy world of ghosts and tea shops again and again 🫖.

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This story never fails to warm my heart.

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I'm of the mind that I'm family now, since this is my third time reading this book! 🫖

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Home sweet home 📚🫖.

4.5 ⭐

Still fresh in the throws of grief, I wasn't certain if I'd be able to get through this. (I didn't know what it was about prior to the trigger warning at the beginning.) Decided I was going to try it anyway, and I'm so glad I did. It broke my heart several times and put me back in that initial loss mindset. I cried. I cried like a fool actually. At my desk. At work. But it was such a good story and so well written. A truly beautiful tale.

In posing the question "What will you do with the time you have left?", TJ Klune gives us another funny and heartwarming story about life, loss, grief and tea.
I laughed, I cried....I appreciated life just a little bit more.
But not tea..it's like warm water with yard clippings...I'm more of a coffee kinda guy.

"It was enlightening to see that you were a proponent of manscaping when you were alive. I'd hate to think you'd neglect it only to spend your time here with a topiary garden in your pants." - Nelson

????Nelson ragging on Wallace does not get old. This guy is by far one of my favorite characters ever.????

Just started listening to this... the guy is an asshole. Is he supposed to be that way?

#BookishMonopoly

2023 favourite books, ranked from left to right, top left to bottom right. Some combination of emotionally resonant and a DAMN GOOD TIME. Pretty obvious that T. Kingfisher joined my list of favourite authors in 2023.

First read in March of this year, my December reread confirms, this is my favourite book read in 2023. Everything it makes me feel, how it talks about grief, loss, forgiveness, humanity, redemption, letting go, love, belief...the fully developed characters, the funny and poignant moments, casual queer rep, the unique fantasy elements. I was worried that it wouldn't hit me the same way the second time but I was laughing and crying all over again.

🎄🎅🏻🦌

It‘s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don‘t have enough at all.”

😭😭😭💔💔💔

Tux, get the tissues!

#Adayinthelifeoftux

#Two4Tuesday

Can‘t wait for the Josie Silver!! 💙🤍💙

#tea 🫖 🍵
#HumbleHarvest

Wow! This is a beautiful emotional book about death and grief. Not as fun and light hearted as The House in the Cerulean Sea, but amazing cozy thought take on mortality and the after.

Go Chiefs!! 🏈🙌🏻

What are you reading tonight? 📚

Here‘s to everyone having a great Monday!! 🍷 🍾

Loving this book! 💙✨🌟

“We don‘t always see what‘s right in front of us, much less appreciate it. It‘s not until we look back that we find what we should have known all along.”

Loving this one 💫

#LitsyLoveReads

My best reading buddy!! Apparently I read several chapters in this one that I don‘t remember reading so back to chapter 4! I think I was reading and took my sleep medicine 🤪

Does this ever happen to anyone else?!?!

#Adayinthelifeoftux
#Catsoflitsy

I cried so hard my dog (dog! like Apollo! insert crying face emoji!) came to check on me.

3 out of 5

It's perhaps odd that I love TJ Klune's cosy fantasies so much. Generally, I steer away from the whimsical and the saccharine. Under the Whispering Door has that otherworldly, fairytale feel that I don't always connect with.

But who am I kidding? This was thoroughly charming. It brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. Charon's crossing felt like home, and the story tugged on my heartstrings in all the right ways.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Time for the #midyearfreakoutbooktag - condensed version. Picked out 9 books that I loved/stayed with me the most, that I read in the past 6 months. Top three make the all time favourite list. Safe to say this is the year of T J Klune and I cannot WAIT to get my hands on In The Lives of Puppets.

Book #36
3/5
It really bothers me when the synopsis on the back of the book is misleading. This one led me to believe that it's about a dead man trying to decide how to spend his last week on earth before crossing over. In reality, it's more than halfway through the book when he is given that time line. There are good parts, but overall I found the story underwhelming.

Questo libro è fantastico e ti fa riflettere su argomenti importanti e proprio per questo lo consiglio dai 14 anni in sù. È triste ma la ironia dei personaggi sdrammatizza tutto.

Beautiful

Finally got around to reading this one prompted by my #AuldLangSpine list from @Laughterhp & while The House in the Cerulean Sea edges out as my favorite, this is a close second. I love the ability Klune has to make me both laugh & cry to & grow & redeem his characters. I have been staying away from “sad books” for a while now as it doesn‘t help my depression, but the sad moments of grief & loneliness are served with a big side of humor & hope.💙

This was good and had me laughing out loud more than once. I liked it for the most part, except for the ending. Still like House in the Cerulean Sea better.

Heart achingly beautiful. I think this might be my favourite book, ever.
Laughing and crying simultaneously doesn't happen to me often reading books, but it's a manifestation of the book itself, there's sadness, even spookiness, but also joy, strength and so much love, empathy and forgiveness, redemption. 1/3

👋🏻Jazz hands👋🏻😂

This is my March #doublespin #bookspin book. And once again this author took me on an emotional Rollercoaster of laughing and crying. I love the idea of a better life after death with total acceptance. Too bad we don't have that here. Truly a fun and touching read. @TheAromaofBooks

This was not as good as The House in the Cerulean Sea. It was slow to start and I didn‘t really care for the ending. I did enjoy the middle section and I love Klune‘s writing.

MY HEART. 🥺🥹 Damn, TJ Klune, I‘m sitting at my desk at work crying my face off. What a beautiful book. #underthewhisperingdoor #tjklune #grief #love #family #friendship #foundfamilies #death #theafterlife

I‘m gonna‘ be really sad when we take down the Christmas decorations; they make for such festive backgrounds. 😭 But I‘m so excited to start this - I loved “Cerulean Sea” SO MUCH and can‘t wait to see what else Klune has in store! #underthewhisperingdoor #tjklune #fantasy #nowreading

I‘m 25% into this audiobook. Does it get better? This is my first book by this author, and I know he‘s received a lot of love for some of his other works. It‘s not bad, just kind of boring. 🤷‍♀️

September #bookspin complete! 4.5 ⭐️

I enjoyed this tale, though feel like Wallace‘s transformation was a very quick one. But I loved the entire crew: Hugo, Mei, Nelson…and even Wallace. 💜

This begins when Wallace dies—ghosts in October, yay! The hill he has to climb, development-wise, is a tad steep, but that‘s the only real complaint I have. It‘s wholesome, cute, and full of vivid characters. It made me both laugh and cry, sometimes simultaneously, which in my book is endorsement enough. If you liked The House in the Cerulean Sea, chances are you‘ll like this, too. The main theme there was acceptance—here, it‘s grief.

4.5/5

Ok Littens. I need some help!

I keep hearing about these books but I haven't tried one yet. Never thought about it.

Today, our library announced that TJ Klune is coming to our tiny town for a reading/signing next week and since we never have ANYONE come here....I have to go! 🤣

Which one do I buy?

#ReaderProblems

Without giving too much away, this book touches on important topics that are rarely discussed like grief, suicide, loss, and death/ dying. This book allows the characters to touch on the various layers and complexities of death. This book asks “what will we do with the time we have left?“ and “what if after we die we start to live?“

Love this author. This one was fun, too—kind of fantasy but mostly a story about living your best life and finding love.

Library Sale success! All this for $20! #bookhaul

A beautiful read examining grief, love, death, and moving forward all in Klune's usual humorous style. I enjoyed all of the character growth throughout, and liked seeing so many versions of moving forward. Unfortunately, I never quite bought into Wallace as a cruel, horrid character despite the first few chapters because he doesn't seem to stick to that identity for long, which made it hard to buy into his character overall. #LGBTQ #Ghost

Not as good as Cerulean but still really really good. I was reading this and watching The Good Place at the same time (not on purpose) and it really got me thinking about what this all means. I didn't like the ending. But the characters were all so charming, I can look past it.
I'm curious what tea Hugo would make me. Hopefully chai 🤞

8.13.22