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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, M.D. and T.J. Mitchell
Judy Melinek shares how her career as a pathologist has colored her understanding of life and death
Judy Melinek’s Working Stiff is the kind of memoir that reads like a season of the TV show “CSI”. In her book, she writes how her experience as a forensic pathologist has led her to uncover murder plots, medical accidents … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Autopsy, Book Review, Forensic pathologist, Grief, Judy Melinek, Life and Death, Medical examiner, Memior, New York City, Suicide, Working Stiff
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Japanese Death Poems, Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
What words are as packed full of meaning and metaphor then those of a haiku?
I’ve been fascinated by haiku ever since I first laid eyes on one. Their intrinsic nature is to elicit mystery swirling around their brevity of words. Not only are they the shortest poems known to mankind, haiku unfailingly evoke breathtaking … Continue reading
”1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die” by Mark Irving
All with my copy of 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die under my arm
Sneaking into amazing buildings is such great fun. I will enjoy the art of trespassing until I die. I got the bug back in my college days, when I just short of minored in architecture. I traveled many a distance … Continue reading
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To those who see” by Gwen Frostic
Inspiring poetry about nature for those exiting the grieving process or seeking a bereavement gift
I ask myself why have I not shared this small poetry book “To Those Who See” by Gwen Frostic with you, my readers? Simply put, it’s my most treasured book. And treasures are to be hidden, aren’t they? the winds blow … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Ber, Bereavement, Bereavement Book, Bereavement Gift, Block-Prints, Book Review, Grieving Process, Gwen Frostic, Michigan, Mid-Century, Mid-Century Book, Nature
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on aging, Christianity and the mysteries of life and death
There’s too much to praise in Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. Such luminous beauty and spiritual verve, as always sought but rarely seen, rewards the reader who opens this story based in Gilead, a small, fictional town in Iowa. A novel … Continue reading
CRAZY by Amy Reed
The unique novel for young adults addresses the dark feelings many don't know how to face.
Connor knows that Izzy will never fall in love with him the way he’s fallen for her. But somehow he’s been let into her crazy, exhilarating world and become her closest confidante. But the closer they get, the more Connor realizes … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolescence, Amy Reed, Bipolar disorder, Book Review, Crazy, Mental disorder, Mental health, Simon and Schuster, Suicide
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