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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Death can be totally adorkable, and a little bit smutty

Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks

May 24, 2025 by RevGirlUtena 3 Comments

Hey, it’s been a loooooooong time since I have written a review. I was in a bad place, mentally. I have had a lot, and I mean A LOT of pet deaths in the past few years, and the first half of this year had a few that were back-to-back. The irony that the book that pulled me out of my slump was a book about a funeral home was not lost on me. Why don’t we have funerals for our pets? It would be […]

Filed Under: Featured, Romance Tagged With: friends to lovers, Ivy Fairbanks, widowhood

RevGirlUtena's CBR17 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Romance · Tags: friends to lovers, Ivy Fairbanks, widowhood ·
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An inspirational story of grief and survival, loss and self-discovery

November 11, 2014 by Valyruh 1 Comment

A lovely and simply told tale of grief and loss, survival and renewal. This is the story of Nora Webster, a newly-widowed 40-year-old woman in a claustrophobic Irish town who must suddenly face not just the challenge of financial security and raising her children without a husband, but how to step back into the mainstream of life after 21 years of housekeeping and childrearing. She is depressed, angry, secretive, and resentful in turns, and often too self-absorbed to help her children with their grief. She […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: feminism, independent, Ireland, widowhood

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:91 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: feminism, independent, Ireland, widowhood ·
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