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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 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

Last Rites

Last Rites

A fascinating and candid primer

Book, Book Review, Library, WisdomCaren MartineauFebruary 23, 2023Non Fiction, History, Culture, Rituals, Funeral Directors, Funeral, Midwife, Burial Practices, Funerary Rites, Traditions

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

All About Love: New Visions

All About Love: New Visions

Love is an action

Library, Book Review, Book, WisdomCaren MartineauFebruary 23, 2023Non Fiction, philosophy, love, Best Seller, Toni Morrison, Thomas Merton, Grief, Death, Culture, Author

How To Die

How To Die

New translation of a timeless classic

Library, Book Review, Book, WisdomCaren MartineauFebruary 1, 2023philosophy, Classic, Princeton University Press, Stoic, James Romm, Non Fiction

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