Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a philosophical study of death in fiction with light touches of humour and suspense.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
an imprint of Simon & Schuster
2021
243 pages
27-year-old Gilda is obsessed with dark thoughts as a result she can barely get out of bed, barely keep a job. In fact, as the story begins Gilda has just lost her job in a bookstore. It's not like she hasn't tried some way to escape these dark thoughts. The nurses, doctors, and janitors in the hospital's emergency unit know her by name. She keeps going back; they keep trying to help, but nothing works. Gilda is desperate. So desperate, in fact, that when a nun hands her a pamphlet advertising therapy Gilda follows this lead and winds up at St. Rigobert's Catholic Church. Father Jeff misunderstands the reason for her visit and hires her as the new secretary. What happened to the old secretary? That's a mystery Gilda is driven to solve and for a time her new job gives her a new lease on life until...
If I knew the wild ride this book was offering I may not have bought it, but Anne Logan's recommendation on I've Read This convinced me to give the book a try. And from page one the compelling writing reeled me in. In the end, I'm glad I joined Gilda on her introspective journey because I found this book about death surprisingly uplifting.
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Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
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City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
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It's literary awards season and we're celebrating on this blog. I'm devoting the entire month to reviewing books...
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Sharing my author journey...
In order to grow as a writer, you have to be courageous enough to try
something new. You have to be brave enough to risk the possibility of failure. You have to be able to write junk. You have to realize that not everything that flows from your pen will be gold--and still have fun. One of the most important things for me to remember is to keep writing fun.
