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Fresh Water for Flowers: A Quiet Novel About Starting Over
Book Review · Fiction · Valérie Perrin My favorite quote: “Since I have been tasting life, I offer myself a piece of it every day. I drink it like a drop of tea.” I picked up Fresh Water for Flowers expecting a simple story about a cemetery keeper. What I found was a profound meditation…
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When Life Is Catastrophically Interrupted: Rereading When Breath Becomes Air
Book Review · Memoir · Paul Kalanithi “What do you do when life is catastrophically interrupted?” That is the question I kept asking myself as I closed this book for the second time. When I first read it a few years ago, what I felt was boundless compassion and a faint sadness at the passing…
