#5JoysFriday
1) Mark Twain House sponsored a book interview with Michael Luo author of Strangers in the Land- my family joined in the event.
2)coffee!!!!! & poetry!!!!!
3) kitties!!!!
4) iris blooming in my yard
5) lily of the valley in my yard
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Death mask of Boris Pasternak (author) at the Nobel Prize Museum.
Tagged book has a great section about death masks and one of their sculptors.
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pickThis was a beautifully illustrated graphic novel that used Chinese folklore to explore themes of grief and belonging.
It‘s fun to have breakfast at dinner 🍳🥓
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pickI See You‘ve Called in Dead, by John Kenney (2025)
Premise: After a drunkenly posting his own mock death notice, a New York obituary writer looks for the meaning of life and death.
Review: This is a fun, moving, and insightful book. I particularly appreciated how it held certain truths out for us without laying it on too thick; death is after all a mystery that‘s really impossible to write about well. It‘s also a really great New York book. Cont
