Hey everyone.

Today's book is about grief and how we grieve.

And for once, I decided not to include a joke in the opening.

I decided it just now when Kellyn heard my joke and said it was insensitive.

The book is The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

And this is The Bookpile.

A podcast about the best of books and the worst of books.

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from the hobbit to the roasted twilight to the big shore to the roast of new moon to a

christmas carol to the roast of eclipse something for everyone i'm kellerisken i'm a comic a father

and someone who recently read this book right after reading the novelization of the Force Awakens.

So probably the greatest tonal shift between books since I read The Grapes of Wrath and Good Night Moon back to back.

And I'm David Vance.

All right, as usual, feel free to leave us an amazing review, and we might read it here.

One of our most recent five-star reviews is from Sam Potter, who says, I mean, first of all, I can already tell.

He's trying to win Dave over with his last name.

He or Sheila says, love Kellyn's stand up and Dave's writing witty and intelligent they're still just talking about me

i would love to see the guys review other genres such as popular adult fiction their choices

seem predominantly why a fantasy slash nonfiction. I'd love to see what their

opinions on literary classics are, such as Catcher in the Rye, Tropic of Cancer, a takedown of

a pretentious yet esteemed novel would be hilarious. I look forward to more episodes. All right,

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