Grief in Literature & What I’m Reading After Losing My Dad ❤️

And I found the way that Samantha Shannon wrote about grief in this book to be incredibly moving and touching and really helped me with that initial stage of sort of the shock period.

And it's a beautiful book It's one of my favorites Like I said I've reread it many times But the loss in this book has always been incredibly impactful for me.

I also loved the first book in the series for its own reasons and I would highly recommend the series in general.

And I just found it a really beautiful kind of overall as an entire book a metaphor for grief You know the many ways that we try to avoid dealing with it instead of allowing ourselves to feel that pain cuz it just hurts so much.

I just really was very moved by the way that this book talked about grief It made me cry so many times.

I found this deeply moving This was one of my favorite reads of last year just completely blew me away.

I'll also say LingLing Hang's most recent release Immaculate Conception also touches on grief but I would say this book Natural Beauty is maybe more prominently exploring the idea of grief.

And I have always felt very attached to this book I've always felt very seen by this book as a sister with a sister I have seen myself in all of the sisters to varying degrees but especially always loved and felt some sort of a kinship to Beth and Amy.

It's just such a gorgeously written book It's very moving and maybe has a little bit more of a literary fiction hazy dreamlike quality to it which kind of ties into that magical realism or that slight sprinkling of the supernatural.

This is a gorgeous book It's so beautifully written and really kicks off because of this intense grief that a character is feeling and that unwillingness to let go inability to let go deep despair the desolation leads to the horror element of the story.

One of my favorite books of the last couple years Really fantastic Highly recommend.

I also really loved the third book in the series Known of the Ninth which also has its own sort of interactions with or explorations of grief.

But I just think this is one of the most beautifully written books I've read in the last couple years It touched me very deeply I found it incredibly emotional very visceral.

Rereading this more recently as an adult I was completely bowled over by it I was very emotional about the loss and the way it explored that grief.

This one is kind of a mix of sci-fi and horror but a really fantastic book and I would highly recommend it I'm a big fan of Mona Aad's writing and this one felt very personal and emotional especially in that familial relationship between the protagonist and their loved one who they lost.

But for me book one both sort of the setup of book one but also losses that happen later in the book are very impactful to me and have always really resonated with me.

So I felt this was really beautifully done I really connected to it I really felt its handling of grief was very empathetic and thoughtful like I said and I found it quite emotional and cathartic.

But I will say that I just found it so well done so moving really vivid characters It is another one that is sort of a physical geographical journey that mirrors the internal journey.

And both book one and book two were fantastic I gave them both five stars They're both really worth the read.

And like I said this is technically the second book written after Priy of the Orange Tree but it's a prequel so you could read it as a standalone though I also do love Priory of the Orange Tree.

Every time I talk about this book I feel like I have to mention this that I thought this was going to be book club bait and just kind of faux emotional or faux deep but I found this really wholesome and heartwarming and emotional and sincere and I loved it.

But book two is so much more about grief and about the protagonist's experience of grief the loneliness that bar empty hole left behind And we really experience her grieving through so much of the novel and feeling that pain and the loss And it's definitely very visceral and hard to read at times and it makes me emotional every time I read it But I have always found it to be very cathartic.

But I've reread this a couple times and I just find it so deeply moving and incredibly beautiful and it's very short Would highly recommend it.

This is another one that's just such a beautiful book It's so beautifully written very emotional a lot of catharsis a lot of crying in reading it.