This may sound very strange, but I love reading about death and anything death related. I couldn't contain my excitement when I saw this book. Seriously.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory is a memoir by Caitlin Doughty, and from what I had gathered, it is her first book. Caitlin may be familiar to some of you because she is the author of Ask a Mortician channel.
The book chronicles Caitlin's adventures as a complete newbie in the world of death and cremation. She meets a lot of interesting characters both living and dead and she is not afraid to tell it as it is. Personally, this book was pretty educational to me because the act of cremation is not practiced in the country I live in. It is not an entirely new concept for me, but I was familiar with the basics. Thanks to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, I got the backstage pass to this curious occupation. I also learned a lot about different burial rituals from around the world. Caitlin is a clever and funny storyteller and this book is truly a page-turner.
You should read this book if... you love memoirs, you are passionate about weird and creepy things, you want to escape to a different world for a day (the very real land of the dead in this case) or you just want a break from all those fictional books which deal with the supernatural and experience something that is happening every single day.
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I imagine she would have interesting tales. Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteYes, it is a very interesting book ;) Thank you so much for leaving me a comment!
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