Reviews

The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead by Thomas Mira y Lopez

tangleroot_eli's review

Usually this sort of book—personal narrative framing or framed by journalistic or scientific writing—is 100% my jam. But Mira y Lopez’s emotionless writing style chilled me. I do understand that the book is about his quest to access and process the emotions he couldn’t get at when his father died, but I’m not interested in 194 pages of his emotional labor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Medical content, and Chronic illness

aemy's review

More personal than history, hit or miss with some chapters. I enjoyed the final chapter (Caudex, Codex?) and the chapter on cryonics!