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Cargando... The Celebrants (2023)por Steven Rowley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was not great. The story was a downer, but the unlikeable characters really killed it. Maybe 1/5 was likeable. I didn't get their friendship, it felt forced for the most part. The "celebrations" were slapstick and unbelievable. It also felt like the author was trying to tick off the boxes too hard and I didn't care for the writing. Great Quote: " We've reached a tipping point. At a certain time, life takes more from you than it gives." This was actually a modern day Big Chill, great movie in its time, and gave the same air to it. I enjoyed the banter of the group. I've read other books by this author and he hits different subjects in them and makes them great reads. Sentimental, sweet, but also sassy and over the top; this story of college friends will win over most readers. At the end of their college career in the 90's their friend group loses Alec to an overdose. Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle are distraught. They had so many things they wish they could have said to him. While drinking and mourning Alec they decide to create a pact, a pact that will allow each of them to have a funeral while living so they can all say what is on their hearts. Well life happened and they grew up and grew apart (except for the Jordans, they got married), the pact was nearly forgotten until they all get a call from Marielle whose divorce has sent her spiraling. The Celebrants covers all the friends and their funerals and is extremely witty and wild - bordering at times obnoxious but still good fun. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises??especially to ourselves??by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle. It??s been a minute??or five years??since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they??ve reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living ??funerals,? celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living??that their lives mean something, to one another if not to themselves. But this reunion is different. They??re not gathered as they were to bolster Marielle as her marriage crumbled, to lift Naomi after her parents died, or to intervene when Craig pleaded guilty to art fraud. This time, Jordan is sitting on a secret that will upend their pact. A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley??s signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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“They went to bed exactly two weeks before graduation thinking they would live forever and woke up to the last real lesson that college would teach them: all that begins, ends” (23).
Taking that lesson to heart, the five remaining friends enter a pact where each can invoke their own funeral at any point in life—a low-point, a traumatic tipping point, a rebirth point. This one-time funeral will serve to function as a reserve parachute when the main parachute of life doesn’t deploy. When you’re plummeting to the hard earth, pull the reserve, call in the funeral, and your closest college friends will be there to remind you: “to live in the present, to live for yourself, … that [you] were never as alone as [you] thought” and to “leave nothing left unsaid” (288, 214).
The book unfolds in the sequential order that each person calls for their own funeral, and while the events that precipitate each funeral are melancholic moments, the funerals themselves are full of humor and tenderness. They’re really made up of all the ingredients of a good reunion with old friends: emotional purging and laugh-out-loud scenarios and enlightening therapy. In the same way, this read is like a reunion with an old friend and one I’d highly recommend reuniting with—you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel hopeful, even knowing that “all that begins, ends.” ( )