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Frackistan: The Promise and Peril of America’s Energy Revolution
Savaging the Dark
The End-of-Life Handbook: A Compassionate Guide to Connecting with and Caring for a Dying Loved One
Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life
A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success
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Dances in Two Worlds: A Writer-Artist's Backstory
Tigers in Red Weather
I Feel Bad About My Neck: and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
CRAP!I am of an age that I now empathize with these stories instead of just finding them amusing.
Damnation.
Ok. I don't relate to all the stories. For instance, I don't live in an apt. in NYC, though I do completely understand having a ridiculous amount of love for one's home and community.
I don't do the maintenance thing. Well, except now I've started paying more attention to my neck because maybe these last few years or months of preventative measures will make a difference.
"Consider the Alternative" was hard to listen to. And sad. I mean, it's supposed to be sad, it's about death. But hearing that best friends die, that's hard. And then listening to her talk about death and her saying, "By the time you read this, I'll be" and I thought, "Dead." Because that is how it actually worked out and that is also sad.
Regardless, many of these essays made me smile either with a knowing look or with joy or with a sense of smugness. I liked this book.
P.S.
I do not recommend following this with [b:Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.|17707582|Sister Mother Husband Dog Etc.|Delia Ephron|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1372679788s/17707582.jpg|24757111]. Delia starts it out with the Nora's end days. I've been crying in the car for two drives, now. It's been hard to go from Nora talking about death, losing her BFF and wondering who was next - and now I know she knew she was sick when she wrote that - to Delia talking about how her sister's death impacted her, both during and after and still, I am sure. OMG, it just hurts. And it's scary. I have a sister. We don't collaborate on books, we're not famous, but I can't lose her and this part of the book is terrifying to me because I don't want to think about the surviving sister syndrome. And it's sad. So I don't recommend it as a chaser.