A review by kim_j_dare
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

5.0

A beautiful and life-affirming book. Although this is the story of a "book club" that started when the author started accompanying his mother to doctor visits after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, it is so much more. It's a conversation about the authors who have written of and shaped our world over the past 100 years; it's a tribute to reading; it's a call to action to do something about the injustices we see around us. But it's mainly a celebration-- of wonderful books, of a remarkable woman, of parents everywhere who instill in their children a passion for books. I'm thankful to my mom for passing on her own love of reading, and for giving me this book for Christmas, which I don't think I would have ever picked up on my own. There's a line in the book: "It's a book that I never would have read if so many friends hadn't told me that I must. But now I can't imagine not having read it." In a word, extraordinary.