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Love Notes To Grievers

Love Notes To Grievers

Let go of expectations and timelines.

Book, Book Group Selection, Book Review, Farewell Library, Library, WisdomCaren MartineauJanuary 22, 2024Author, Memoir, Self Help, Family, Grief, Healing, Grief Workers, love, Loss, Non Fiction, Poetry, philosophy, Relationships, Essay, Teacher

The Invisible Hour

The Invisible Hour

Time travel, love, and scent of autumn.

Book Review, Farewell Library, Library, Book Group Selection, BookCaren MartineauOctober 25, 2023Fiction, Memoir, Cancer, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction

The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

Challenging and relatable.

Library, Book Review, Book Group Selection, BookCaren MartineauApril 27, 2023Non Fiction, Memoir, Feminism, Essay, Queer, LGBTQ, Lesbian, Cancer, Medical Memoir, Black Culture, Black Feminism, Women's Health, Breast Cancer

My Father's Wake

My Father's Wake

Where sorrow meets celebration

Book Review, Library, Wisdom, Book, Book Group SelectionCaren MartineauFebruary 23, 2023Non Fiction, Irish, History, Memoir, Dying, Wake, Mortality, Ancestral, Rituals, TED Talk

This Party's Dead

This Party's Dead

Grief, joy and spiced rum.

Wisdom, Library, Book Review, BookCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Non Fiction, Travel, Memoir, Culture, Rituals, Grief, Grief Workers, Dying, New Orleans, Big Easy, Indigenous Cultures, History, Green Burial, Comedy

Left on Tenth

Left on Tenth

From fine to awfulness to love to hope

Wisdom, Library, Book Review, BookCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Biography, Memoir, Medical Memoir, Author, Best Seller, Caregiver, Dying, Death, Farewell Library, Grief, Loss, Non Fiction, NYTimes bestseller, Romance, Relationships, Transformation

Everything Left to Remember

Everything Left to Remember

An expedition into uncharted territory

Book, Library, WisdomCaren MartineauNovember 8, 2022Caregiver, Anticipatory Grief, Grief, Mother, Daughter, Memoir, Alzheimer's, Memory Loss

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

Living in the face of death

Book, LibraryCaren MartineauNovember 8, 2022Memoir, Science, Death, Father, Author, Dying, Medical, Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

A fragile and layered unfolding….

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Memoir, Daughter, Death, Pulitzer Prize, Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller, Grief, Black Culture, Murder, Violence, Transformation, Healing

A Memoir of Love and Loss

A Memoir of Love and Loss

I’m still puffy-eyed from all the crying…

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller, Death, Dying, Alzheimer's, Death with Dignity, Author, Memoir, Loss, Medical, Memory Loss