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A Composition of Decomposition

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

February 10, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Last time you, me, and the other Caitlin who spells her name correctly met up, I was asking about what you wanted to happen to your body when you died. Remember?  A good time was had by all. This time I am not going to ask what you want to happen, because while Smoke Gets in Your Eyes does talk about what one can choose for their post-mortem adventures, it also gives a breakdown (cymbal crash) of what happens to a human body when it stops being […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, california, cremation, Death, decomposition, dying, From Here to Eternity, Funeral home, funeral industry, humor, order of the good death, science

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:15 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, california, cremation, Death, decomposition, dying, From Here to Eternity, Funeral home, funeral industry, humor, order of the good death, science ·
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Someone: A Novel by Alice McDermott

January 24, 2014 by ElCicco 2 Comments

It’s hard to give a plot summary for this novel because I’m not sure there is a clear plot line. The narrator Marie gives us her life story, an ordinary life with love and loss, births and deaths, set in Brooklyn from her 1920s’ girlhood through WWII, then marriage and family. It’s about what happens to her, her neighbors, her parents and brother. These are ordinary lives but no life is really just ordinary. There’s always more to people than you realize. McDermott’s writing is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1920s, Alice McDermott, Brooklyn, ElCicco, Fiction, Funeral home, Someone, WWI, WWII

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1920s, Alice McDermott, Brooklyn, ElCicco, Fiction, Funeral home, Someone, WWI, WWII ·
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