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booking_along 's review for:
There's a Bear in the House!
by Walter Kirn
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
a short story the authors last weeks with his sick father and a little bit after wards.
i liked the honesty of this book a lot.
it doesn’t sugar coat how hard it can be to have someone in need of care be your responsibility and how even after their death specific moments can make you still question the choices that were made.
i liked that the author didn’t try to make this story either overly upbeat in the tone of “we can all learn from death and taking care of others especially during hard times” or the opposite “it’s all horrible and so sad and tragic and the reader should only feel horrendously bad.”
instead this story stayed it’s middle ground if just sharing a story that was about loos and grief and human situations and how that sometimes looks.
i liked how covid was mentioned into the story but not as a main thing, but rather that it slowed down or complicated simple tasks in ways that nobody expected before this pandemic, but it never went into anything else.
i think this was done well and if you like and well told little story that is about loss of a parent but more l, go for it.
i liked the honesty of this book a lot.
it doesn’t sugar coat how hard it can be to have someone in need of care be your responsibility and how even after their death specific moments can make you still question the choices that were made.
i liked that the author didn’t try to make this story either overly upbeat in the tone of “we can all learn from death and taking care of others especially during hard times” or the opposite “it’s all horrible and so sad and tragic and the reader should only feel horrendously bad.”
instead this story stayed it’s middle ground if just sharing a story that was about loos and grief and human situations and how that sometimes looks.
i liked how covid was mentioned into the story but not as a main thing, but rather that it slowed down or complicated simple tasks in ways that nobody expected before this pandemic, but it never went into anything else.
i think this was done well and if you like and well told little story that is about loss of a parent but more l, go for it.
Graphic: Death of parent