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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the End-Game

Robert McCrum

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'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse...

The Unspoken Name

A K Larkwood

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Does she owe her life to those planning her death . . . Csorwe was raised by a death cult steeped...

Russ Troutt (291 KP) rated Kodachrome (2017) in Movies

Jul 6, 2019

Kodachrome (2017)

2017 | Drama

9.0

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In dying there was death, in more ways than one. And to fully develop that statement you'll need to watch what is one of my favorite movies of 2017, Kodachrome. It's as moving as it is funny, and Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis, and Elizabeth Olsen all deliver amazing performances in what I feel for each is one of their best 'film roles'. If the movie looks out of focus by the end, it's not. That'll just be the tears in your eyes. Don't let this movie flash by, like life has a tendency to, without seeing it.

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The Art of Dying

Ambrose Parry

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Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all...

Pickled Pink in Paris (Julia Fairchild #3)

PJ Peterson

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A major business deal is disrupted by murder. But a young physician has the key to the case... A...

Cozy Mystery

In The Shadow of Blackbirds

Cat Winters

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"In a city filled with the dead and dying. While a nightmarish War rages halfway across the world....

Paranormal Ghosts World War 1 Spanish Influenza

Time to Live: The Beginner's Guide to Saying Goodbye

Ann Clifford

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For all 'beginners' who hope to say goodbye well. How we leave this life will be our final word to...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Life After Life in Books

Sep 29, 2017

Life After Life

Kate Atkinson | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry

7.2

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Mind-blowing account about different choices

This is really quite a unique novel about the roads taken if a person was given a choice. The story surrounds a woman named Ursula, who dies in various different ways until she makes the right choices. At some points she is aware that she is sensing deja vu, at others, she thinks she's becoming unstable. All throughout however, only snow is a consistent factor in gauging her bearings.

It almost feels like Jacob's Ladder has been amalgamated with Groundhog Day, but in a much more epic fashion, exploring death, conflict, and fate. From dying at birth, to dying during the Second World War, some of the paths are deeply depressing, but bravo to Kate Atkinson for writing a complex yet clear book.