Your books are always beautiful editions!! Your videos are so aesthetically appealing. Also can I just share my appreciation on how short your videos are? Sometimes I don’t have the time/energy to watch long videos but I can always squeeze one of yours in and I love it.
I love watching your videos so much because you always include books which I've never even heard of before, but I immediately want to read. These all sound right up my alley! Thanks so much for the recommendations and keep doing what you do :)
Exactly! Because of this, she is becoming my fav booktuber. I always get recs of books that no one else talks about. She just reads what she wants and share her thoughts. She doesn’t go with all the hype.
I read a fair amount of sad books, so I’ll definitely look into these! I would also highly recommend Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer. It shows really well how grief manifests itself differently in different people, and how it impacts your relationships with others.
I read quite a lot of books with a theme of grief in them. My favourite book of last year was Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, a short novel in verse about a family who have lost their mother. It rang so true for me and my personal experience with grief. I absolutely adored it.
Hi, I watch your videos but rarely comment. I find myself thinking on and experiencing grief quite a bit lately. I have not read any of these but am interested in Kitchen. I would also add When Women Were Birds: 54 Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams. Williams is a wonderful nature writer but this is a short, experimental memoir where she processes her mother's death and her Mormon cultural heritage (despite leaving the faith). I think her earlier book Refuge is amazing (possibly out of print) but this one is shorter, a lot more recent, and tackles grief in a unique way.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting reads. Will check them out. I have not read a lot of books around dealing with grief. Blues has been my way always...and I have spent months in that den, smoking one album after another (figuratively), at a point. But there are some profound pieces that have taken a permanent hold in heart and head. One such intense slice from a poem by HW Longfellow, 'Three Friends of Mine', which I share below: "Good night! good night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. " Hope all is well at your end and you are feeling better. Take care and stay safe.
