Karl@literature.cafe to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 hours agoWhat book would you recommend to a person in their final days?message-squaremessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareWhat book would you recommend to a person in their final days?Karl@literature.cafe to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 hours agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekindnesskills@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·9 hours agoI wouldn’t wait to read something I actually want to read, because life and death is unpredictable. I would rather plan to reread a book at different stages of life and find out how much I’ve changed by how differently feel about the same story. Or I’d (re)read something like House of Leaves, just because it’d be very funny to have that type of book be the thing that finally kills me.
minus-squareSharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 minutes agoMy mother may have been a bitch, but she had this down pat - she re-read her favourite books once she hit 80, and then gave them to charity after. It helped clear down the house a bit and she enjoyed them one last time. She dropped dead randomly at 87 with zero warning (other than being old).
I wouldn’t wait to read something I actually want to read, because life and death is unpredictable.
I would rather plan to reread a book at different stages of life and find out how much I’ve changed by how differently feel about the same story.
Or I’d (re)read something like House of Leaves, just because it’d be very funny to have that type of book be the thing that finally kills me.
My mother may have been a bitch, but she had this down pat - she re-read her favourite books once she hit 80, and then gave them to charity after.
It helped clear down the house a bit and she enjoyed them one last time.
She dropped dead randomly at 87 with zero warning (other than being old).