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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Ashes To Admin - Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King”
★★★★★

Why am I reading so much about death lately? This is a wryly funny and cosily charming book about council funerals.

Evie King conducts Section 46 funerals under the Public Health Act. If you die and there's no…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/book-review-ashes-to-admin-tales-from-the-caseload-of-a-council-funeral-officer-by-evie-king/
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#BookReview #death

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Ben Curthoys
Ben Curthoys
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@Edent if you are in a morbid mood, I just read "How High We Go In The Dark" for my scifi bookclub and it is relentlessly funereal.

Review -

https://www.quora.com/profile/Ben-Curthoys/Book-Review-How-High-We-Go-in-the-Dark-How-High-We-Go-in-the-Dark-is-a-book-that-asks-you-to-read-it-twice-Not-becau

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@bencurthoys devastating!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/08/book-review-how-high-we-go-in-the-dark-sequoia-nagamatsu/

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Ben Curthoys
Ben Curthoys
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 51 minutes ago

@Edent I imagine it would hit differently mid-COVID. I read "The Girl With All The Gifts" in the first Lockdown for similarity heightened effect.

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Benjamin Geer
Benjamin Geer
@benjamingeer@piaille.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@Edent One of those funerals figures prominently in Shady Lewis’s novel On the Greenwich Line, which is also wryly comical https://benjamingeer.name/en/post/on-the-greenwich-line/

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Shady Lewis, On the Greenwich Line

The novel On the Greenwich Line, by the Egyptian writer Shady Lewis, came out in 2019. Since reading it in Arabic in 2023, I have given the original Arabic version or the French translation to several of my friends (there’s also a German translation), and now I will be giving other friends the English translation that is due out next month. With great sensitivity, Lewis has written a very funny comic novel about immigration, racism, and bureaucracy in London, where he is a social worker. In a lecture at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in April 2023, he said that when the news is so full of horrors every day that we become inured to them, humour can revive our feelings. The treatment did me a lot of good.
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