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LisaBam
Oscar and the Lady in Pink | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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I finally read this beautiful, deep and meaningful masterpiece about life, its meaning and death. Thank you @IuliaC for recommending this novel to me. I absolutely loved it! For sure among the best books I have ever read ❤️

IuliaC I am really glad you enjoyed it! 🤗 2w
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JenniferEgnor
On Life after Death, revised | Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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I found this edition while scanning the shelves in an indie bookstore in Seattle. It was a quick read with a lot of familiar information and ideas—but EKR is always worth reading. I honestly can‘t get enough of books on these topics! The world needs more of them. Death Care and Death Education can be so different, if we allow it to be. Shown: snowberries at Snoqualmie Falls in WA.

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Custo7
Vivir con nuestros muertos | Delphine Horvilleur

Se admite a menudo entre estas familias que la comunicación es compleja, a menudo más vociferada que hablada. Un amigo... Me dijo un día 'durante mucho tiempo creí que el yidish era una lengua que solo podía hablarse a grito pelado'

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Custo7
Vivir con nuestros muertos | Delphine Horvilleur

En la mayoría de las familias de descendientes de la shoá se reconoce esa dureza característica: sobrevivieron porque lo eran o se volvieron así para sobrevivir?

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Jari-chan
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The Museum of Silence - Just like all the other books by Ogawa I've read so far, it was a special journey, deep, meaningful and quiet. If you haven't read anything by her yet, do not start with this one, because it's much harder to grasp than the other ones. I think I have to reread it at some point to get the whole meaning of this story.

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Tamra
The Heart: A Novel | Maylis de Kerangal
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Mehso-so

I finished it, but skimmed quite a bit. I don‘t know what it was, perhaps the run-on sentences or maybe it was too detailed about things I wasn‘t interested in. I really liked the premise, a 24 hour window onto an organ transplant, but it just didn‘t captivate me. Disappointing because I was looking forward to it.

Into the donation bag it goes! (Pun intended!) 😝

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Tamra
The Heart: A Novel | Maylis de Kerangal
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Why buy 1 when you can buy 2? Going out on a limb - not read Kerangal before, but I suspect I may like her writing.

ju.ca.no 2 is bettern than one obviously 💙 4y
BarbaraBB Beautiful composition 😍 4y
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vlwelser
Oscar Et La Dame Rose | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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This is pretty sad. The English title is Oscar and the Woman in Pink. Basically Oscar is dying and Mamie Rose comes up with ways to get him through it. It's epistolary with Oscar writing letters to God.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

IuliaC I liked this one and also enjoyed the theater play, sad but beautiful 🤍 4y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 4y
vlwelser @IuliaC It really is beautiful. Do you have a favorite by this author? 4y
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IuliaC @vlwelser Hard to say, I've read so many by him and enjoyed them all! I think the ones I liked most are "L'évangile selon Pilat", "Lorsque j'étais une oeuvre d'art" and the short story collection "The most beautiful book in the world" which includes "La rêveuse d'Ostende". I actually found out about him through the theater play "L'hôtel des deux mondes" some years ago 4y
vlwelser @IuliaC Thank you! It seems like every time I read a book I end up adding 3 more to my wish list. Thankfully my library seems to have some of them. 4y
IuliaC @vlwelser It happens all the time 😊👍 It's difficult when the libraries don't have them 😁 4y
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vlwelser
Oscar Et La Dame Rose | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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Please. Ask me if I needed more books to read.

Already like 20 pages into the tagged one. Despite the fact that I have a different book that I brought from home sitting on my desk.

kspenmoll Always need more books to read! 4y
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Dilara
Narayama | S Fukazawa
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Narayama is a very depressing novella (again!) inspired by a Japanese folktale in which old people are taken to the Narayama mountain/god and left there to die, so as to leave more food to the younger generation over the winter. Not cheerful, but with a definite wintery vibe!
Word count:
Winter: 3
Snow: 36
Family: 2
Holiday: 2

#WGWordSearch #WinterGames2021 #TeamGameSleighers

@StayCurious

StayCurious sad but at least you got some points haha 4y
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