Gifted

Got some more Brain Candy for you, Creepsters.

My sister picked out this book for me and I highly recommended the read.

It is heartwarming and gripping and disturbing.

Above all, it is well written.

I visit a lot of books throughout the year and this has been my favorite one so far of 2016.

Do not miss out on this -

Pick it up at your nearest book store; 

Borrow it from a friend; 

Download it ASAP.

You will enjoy its originality and its power.

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath has been a stranger to me.

I had long wanted to dive into her world, but something always kept me from it.

I prolonged our interaction for years.

I only quoted her in passing, ridiculously unfamiliar with the depth behind her quotes.

This year, that all changed.

I started my journey with Sylvia Plath back in January.

I read The Bell Jar.

I was hooked.

I went out and got every single thing she has ever written.

And because of this, I am a changed soul.

Embracing Sylvia, her work, and her story is one of  the best decisions I ever made.

And now, I am down to that middle book in the pic below.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.

And you know what?

I cannot even open it.

I am afraid.

I am afraid because I know I will devour it 

- possibly in one sitting - 

and then that will be all.

Our courtship will be over.

Our journey finished.

When I am done with this read, there is nothing left.

No more Sylvia Plath to hold.

No more stories to visit.

No other poems to get lost in.

 And it makes me sad.

And it makes me not want to open that book.

But I know I must.

And I know I will.

Just not today.

Any Creepsters out there a fan of Miss Sylvia?

Share your love below.

Book Recommendation

To me, there's just something a little too unnerving about over-thinking death.
Yes, it crosses all of our minds from time to time, but don't we really try to avoid it's overall conversation? Don't we try and focus on living each day, shifting our attention away from the inevitable?
For me, I try and ignore the thought of death throughout my waking hours ~ as best as I can.

So, when a friend of mine suggested that I read a book about human cadavers ~ that's three-hundred pages of non-fiction about corpses, dissection and possible mutilation ~ I was quite weary of the commitment. After all, my nightmares are filled with blood and torture and revulsion.  So why would I willingly invest the rest of my day's energy into this macabre world?
Bottom line, my friend has never steered me wrong on his book suggestions, not even once.  (Thanks, Travis.)  So, with hidden frustration, I agreed to take a look at it and even though I procrastinated for about a month or two, once I began to read it I could not stop. Once again, he was right.

The book I'm talking about is called Stiff and is written by Mary Roach.  Perhaps you have already read it or heard of it as it was a New York Times Bestseller in its day.  And while the book is somewhat dated, the information and the escape it provides is timeless.  It is clever, dark and comical.  It is, at times, unnerving and morbid and downright frightening, but it will change you.  And isn't that what reading is all about?

This book takes you behind the scenes and into laboratories, hospitals, mortuaries, crematoriums, and the darkest of basements.
It will have you laughing and crying and cringing.  It will have you questioning everything about life and death, religion and science, the here and now and the hereafter.  It will force you to recognize the fragility of life and the strange hilarity of death.  Roach is an amazing author and the book is fascinating.  If you haven't yet, check it out.  It just may change your life death.

And let me know what you think.
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