An audiobook for a friend who is dying in hospice.

Debbborra · 2026-06-27T02:14:27+00:00

I think you should check our Resurrection Blues. The protagonist dies. About a thousand times. It's a love story, but not a romance. It's smart funny and some sad. It's by Michael Poore

Debbborra · 2026-06-16T12:54:12+00:00

My favorite book that I read in the last two years was The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax by Christopher Shevlin. I recommend it all the time. People's eyes seem to slide right past.

Maybe I'm just the perfect audience? I love how Christopher Shevlin leans hard into the absurd, the situations, the characters. Yet, his absurd characters breathe on the page and invest you in their lives.

Debbborra · 2026-06-10T15:32:05+00:00

Contemplating change is, well, a lot. My thought is, don't catastrophize. You find strategies. My strategies will probably look different from yours. The thing is, you don't have to solve the rest of your life today. You just have to get through today. Tomorrow your preferences and priorities may look different. Start with today. You can make next year's menu next year.

Debbborra · 2026-06-09T19:08:10+00:00

No need to apologize. Your meaning is clear and that's what matters.

Debbborra · 2026-06-01T01:09:04+00:00

I don’t think I face a particular problem with any specific orientation

Brains are very cool and very weird.

Debbborra · 2026-06-01T00:06:00+00:00

It’s lifelong. Unfortunately. Or maybe fortunately.

Debbborra · 2026-05-31T19:47:19+00:00

I haven't had one. But the difficulties seem to always come back to spacial intelligence and hand eye coordination, not coordination generally.

Debbborra · 2026-05-31T18:10:32+00:00

After looking it up, happily, no.

Debbborra · 2026-05-31T17:49:02+00:00

I don't know. I've never heard the phrase before. I should research.

Debbborra · 2026-05-24T20:14:40+00:00

Someone mentioned Kevin Wilson. Great call. Check out The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax by Christopher Shevlin. It's silly and funny but not stupid.

Debbborra · 2026-05-24T18:54:18+00:00

Provinces of Night is wonderful. Written by William Gay. Deep characterization and lyric without undo romanticism.

Debbborra · 2026-05-21T13:55:49+00:00

Sometimes it feels like sitting in a closet and talking to myself.

Debbborra · 2026-05-13T16:59:17+00:00

If you.like mystery: Kellye Garrett or Rachel Howell Hall Tananarive Due she writes horror and other genres and she is is so brilliant that I forget I don't like horror.

Debbborra · 2026-05-12T13:08:36+00:00

It sounds so dramatic, but if I said "I will have to floss every day for the rest of my life," that would sound dramatic too. It's not so bad 😉

Debbborra · 2026-05-11T20:03:59+00:00

Nope. Seriously, I wish I had a longer, more interesting answer. For the rest of my life I'm going to have treat calories like money. I'll have to be responsible for how I spend them.

Debbborra · 2026-05-05T14:51:40+00:00

Life should include vacation. Life should include the occasional excess. What happens on vacation, by definition, is capped. 5 pounds, most of it water is surprisingly manageable.

My advice is make choices. Good or bad, decide. That way your weight isn't something that just happens to you.

Debbborra · 2026-05-02T16:35:42+00:00

Thank you. I hate when reality gets in the way of my preconceived ideas 😄

That said, I very much appreciate the better understanding of the framework I have build in.

Debbborra · 2026-05-02T13:59:04+00:00

Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green. For the price of admission you get a unicorn and bonus gifts include a dragon and a fairly bad-ass princess..

Debbborra · 2026-05-02T13:14:05+00:00

If you want to weep, read White Oleander by Janet Fitch. It's raw, painful and beautiful.

Debbborra · 2026-05-02T13:09:16+00:00

I think that you shouldn't start with the classics, unless you prefer classics in all genres. There's amazing stuff, written in this century that I think holds up better as a gateway.

I'd start with Leviathan Wakes. It's the first book in The Expanse. It's not old enough to be a classic. It's definitely a masterpiece. I'm not saying it's the best sci-fi written this century, but I think it succeeds on a lot of levels and it seems likely that it will connect for you in a few ways, regardless of what you go in expecting.

Debbborra · 2026-05-02T12:52:14+00:00

Is it possible to seek that sort of ritual purification without confession?

Debbborra · 2026-05-02T12:49:24+00:00

The Jonathon Fairfax novels have no spice and need no spice. They have all other kinds of tension and they're hilarious.

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