Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Nevermore: Heartbreak, Old Babes, Healing

 


Reported by Rita

Can grief literally break a heart? Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams explores the effects of grief on the human body on a cellular level where it appears loss can effect physical health. The story is the author’s own personal experience of loss and discovery. Full of scientific research and interesting information, our reader gave this title 5 stars. KM


If life was hard for the average teenage girl growing up with a single mother in the 1950s, imagine what it was like if that single mother was a witch. My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood is a humorous coming of age novella that shows what that life would be like. Our reader had only two word to express their feelings for this story…LOVED IT! This novella is included in Atwood’s Old Babes in the Woods:  Stories. MH

Not all of the books discussed in Nevermore get positive reviews. Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown is one such book. The author chronicles her journey from cancer nurse to cancer patient. Our reader found the author to be self-absorbed and entitled, giving the title 1 star. CD

Also mentioned:

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

The Last Chairlift by John Irving

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson

In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand

I Could Pee on This: and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano

 

New books:

 

The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass by Katie Powner

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout

Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes by Clive Oppenheimer

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