What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover becomes a death doula in New York City, dedicating her life to ushering people peacefully through their end-of-life process.
Clover spends so much time with the dying that she has no life of her own, until the final wishes of a feisty old woman send Clover on a trip across the country to uncover a forgotten love story –– and perhaps, her own happy ending. As she finds herself struggling to navigate the uncharted roads of romance and friend-ship, Clover is forced to examine what she really wants, and whether she’ll have the courage to go after it. This book was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR. Looks very interesting to me.
A house that's larger on the inside than on the outside? House of Leaves has been called a terrifying story and has inspired doctorate-level courses and masters theses. So what's it about? Here's what I found online:
Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story — of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
I put this one on reserve because someone here at the Crown Center told me about it, but I'm not sure it's for me, now that I have it in hand. I'll give it a try (and let you know what I think), but I already know for sure that it's a heavy, chunky book!
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