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Sheauhan Yap sheauhanyap — One would expect that a book that calls itself Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve would discuss just such things. Perhaps it would be an anthropological study or, as the misleading library information on its credits page suggests, explore the “social aspects” of death. Instead, Death’s Door is an uneasy mixture of literary analysis and personal...I hesitate to say essay, because the thoughts, events, and remembrances in the memoir-like portions of the book are rarely complete. It is as if the author is driven to confess the dark thoughts that plagued her after her husband’s death and yet can’t bring herself to actually provide the reader with enough information to actually grasp what happened to him and how she felt about it. Or perhaps, having covered that information in another book, she didn’t feel the need to recap it here. Either way, the personal parts of each chapter are much more compelling than the readings Gilbert offers of the snatches of poems reprinted here. The usual suspects are trotted out again and again: Thomas Hardy, Sylvia Plath, D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams. She has limited herself to poetry (and occasionally prose) that directly addresses the author’s loss. Why that means she’s limited to analyzing work that is generally 50 years old or more is less clear. She references Paul Monette and some of the other survivors of the AIDS plague without giving them as much weight as heterosexual survivors from earlier in the century. What this means, then, is that Gilbert’s definition of modern does not mirror mine. She mentions the effects of 9/11 on modern American only in the Preface and again in her final chapter, but the reference feels like an afterthought, perhaps suggested by an editor in an attempt to attach the book to the present. Taking the book as it stands, I would have preferred to read the source poems Gilbert discusses, rather than picking my way through her selected passages — a line here, a stanza there. I feel that I don’t know enough context from the poems or from the poets’ lives to know if the citations actually fit Gilbert’s theories. And because she won’t be honest about her own life, I don’t trust her to be honest in what she’s sharing. Although I have a reasonably large library devoted to death, dying, and grief — including several anthologies of poetry on the subject — I did not find Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve a useful addition of my collection. Perhaps, if you’re a death-obsessed English major who misses the days of being lectured to, this is the book for you. Otherwise, don’t be lured by its title.

Luiza Kwiatkowska luizakwiatkowska — Excellent. Couldn't put it down

Randy Rattansingh _and_esigns — Wanting a chance to develop her dream without her interfering family, Keely McKay seeks out the help of an out of town company. What Keely doesn't realize is that Jack Donohue, a man she hates with every fiber of her body. Jack has lusted after Keely since he met her, but she is opposite of the women he dates. Keely needs his help and he has an offer that is going to be difficult to refuse, a pretend engagement in trade for the work she needs done. Now they have to convince friends and family the engagement is real and try not to act on their feelings for one another along the way. I reread this one because I had never written a review, this was probably my least favorite in the series. Keely is just so brash than I never warmed up to her.

Brenden Stothard brenden6e00 — what could i say? it's priceless!

Ben Desiro mrdesiro — loved it!