What I'm Reading This Week- May,15, 2011--Funny/Sad
Quote de jour
"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."
~William Styron
After an exhausting week who has time to read? This is an abbreviated version today. I tweet but doff my cap to the two college kids, Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman who wrote Twitterature, a book of tweets based on famous literature. My favorite is their version of The Great Gatsby. Think of them hip and clever Cliff Notes.
The arc from funny to sad is not always wide. A publicist sent me The Five Ways We Grieve by Susan Berger. Grieving is a subject I've read much on, so I was curious to see if this book would shed new light. It does, in that the author identifies five types or styles of grieving based on our personalities. As I skimmed through the book, I had a vision of reading it in depth after I experience my next big loss. I felt an odd comfort knowing I'll be able to reach for it on the shelf when the time comes. I'd recommend this for anyone grieving or knows someone who is. DrSusanBerger.com
"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."
~William Styron
After an exhausting week who has time to read? This is an abbreviated version today. I tweet but doff my cap to the two college kids, Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman who wrote Twitterature, a book of tweets based on famous literature. My favorite is their version of The Great Gatsby. Think of them hip and clever Cliff Notes.
The arc from funny to sad is not always wide. A publicist sent me The Five Ways We Grieve by Susan Berger. Grieving is a subject I've read much on, so I was curious to see if this book would shed new light. It does, in that the author identifies five types or styles of grieving based on our personalities. As I skimmed through the book, I had a vision of reading it in depth after I experience my next big loss. I felt an odd comfort knowing I'll be able to reach for it on the shelf when the time comes. I'd recommend this for anyone grieving or knows someone who is. DrSusanBerger.com
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 5/15/2011 6:11 AM 
Categories: Baby Boomers, What I'm Reading This Week, Humor
Tags: susan bergergrief book twitteraturereviewexcerpt fivewaysof grievingreview readingquotestyron
Categories: Baby Boomers, What I'm Reading This Week, Humor
Tags: susan bergergrief book twitteraturereviewexcerpt fivewaysof grievingreview readingquotestyron
The grief book sounds like a must read. Even though there's a lot of validity to the old Kuebler Ross model of the stages of grief, I've always felt that grief is a very individual and personal journey, and while there will be commonalities, no two people are going to have the same experience.
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Ingrid, this book goes beyond the Kuebler Ross five stages of grief to identify methods of going or in some cases not going through the stages.
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LOL, I'll never look at The Great Gatsby the same way again!
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I hope it didn't spoil it for you.
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Thank you for visiting my blog today. I wanted to pop over and say "hello" to a fellow/former Torontonian and another cat lover!
You cannot imagine my surprise when I see you have featured a book on grieving... as just this afternoon I returned from a gathering which was a celebration of my brother's life. He died of pancreatic cancer in March. Nobody close to me has died before and I feel lost! I'm going to buy this book...there really are no coincidences are there?
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I totally believe there are no coincidences. I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your brother and I hope you find the book healing.
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