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Short but sweet audiobook. Thought I should read something with a Halloween theme although I finished it a bit late. 🤷‍♀️👻 #librofm

December 22: The Ones We Carry with Us by Sara O‘Leary. Story published in The Walrus

A woman is looking back on a death she was accidentally at a few years ago when an elderly woman passed away. She is looking back on this and other things that have happened in her life.

“It‘s extraordinarily to me that, in those days, all the books we owned for into one bookcase. And that it still felt like untold riches.”

Fay is 37, married to the love of her life, but she suddenly and unexpectedly dies and then comes back as a ghost. Throughout this short but moving book we see Fay go through the motions of realizing her life is over, all the things she will never experience, and a look back on the life she lived and her decision to stay or let it all go. This was such a touching examination of letting go, the stages of grief and living and loving in life. #canlit

In this brief, amusing & romantic novel about grief & letting go, a 37-year-old woman haunts her husband after she dies in their Vancouver home. “Till death do us part” from the dead spouse‘s viewpoint gives this a unique twist. #CanadianAuthor

“I‘m tired of this sad dance. It takes two to tango but three to do the butterfly. Whatever that means.”

Oh! I haven‘t danced the butterfly since I was a teenager. I had to watch some YouTube for nostalgia purposes. I discovered that there‘s also a hip hop dance called the butterfly. It‘s very different.

https://youtu.be/dXfd3OGXQgY