This book is the classic work dealing with the psychology of death. The five stages of grief were first outlined here, though they are focused more on those dying then the people grieving after they are gone. Kübler-Ross interviewed terminally ill patients as part of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, as a means of understanding what happens when people have a lot of time to face their own deaths.
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It's probably time that I returned these photo books I took out from the library months ago. (There were a few others, but I didn't spend too much time with them before I returned them.)
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One of my favorite books as a kid was Jennifer and Josephine, and though I never read any other of Peet's many children's books, I considered him a favorite writer. I spotted this book at the library—an illustrated autobiography! It seems that I forgot I already had known he did a lot of work for Disney. His insight into the early years of the Disney animated features and Walt Disney's personality are some of the best parts of the book.
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This compilation of writings by Cartier-Bresson is pretty random and obviously written over a long period of time. But its brevity makes up for the lack of flow. His opinions of photographic technique are interesting, sometimes useful and sometimes not. He was not a fan of color photography: As opposed to black, which has the most complex range, color, on the contrary, offers only a fragmentary range. Though that was largely because of the state of color film processing at the time of that writing, 1985.
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The same fat man with the fluorescent vest
is playing cards for cash
at the same table by the window;
I'm giving up on this book. I've been reading it since I finished A Wild Sheep Chase and going on a month, only halfway through—I just don't see the point of forcing myself through it any longer.
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The unnamed narrator is the youngest of three sisters. She has lived her entire life in the Hôtel Splendid . Her grandmother built it next to a swamp. Her sisters traveled the world with their mother. When the mother died, the sisters returned.
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I was in the middle of the epic Stones of Summer when I went away last week—not about to bring a nearly 600 page hardcover tome with me, I instead started in on some of the books that have been calmly waiting for me to get through the Mossman book. I bought this one used several weeks ago because I liked the design (will try to get an image up later).
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