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Sum: Mary
Here’s one of my favourites from Sum. Not sure if this embedded Google Book will show up in feeds, so you might need to click through.
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Sum: 40 Tales From The Afterlives
Sum: 40 Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman Published: 2009 I first heard about this little book when Stephen Fry mentioned it favourably on Twitter, and since I am powerless to his suggestions, I added it to my next Amazon shipment. It’s taken me a long time to get around to it, but I’m glad I did. The title of the book really says it all. This is a collection of forty vignettes that imagine different afterlife scenarios. They range from comical to heartbreaking, and each one is perfectly sized but could easily inspire longer pieces. The amount of creativity packed into this is astonishing. As someone who used…
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Book Beginnings
A Few More Pages has a weekly meme called Book Beginnings, in which you share the first line or two from your current read. I’m finishing up a fun one right now, so I thought I’d share. In the afterlife you relive all your experiences, but this time with the events reshuffled into a new order: all the moments that share a quality are grouped together. — Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman I’ve been spoiled, as this book contains forty great opening lines.