Babas Welt
Montag, 7. Mai 2018
Bücherliste 2018

Neu gelesen: (als E-Book)

Ruth Hogan, The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes

Ich hatte garnicht damit gerechnet, dass dieses Buch noch besser sein würde als Hogans erstes, so erfolgreiches Buch 'The Keeper of Lost Things', und wurde höchst angenehm überrascht. Die Story an sich um den Verlust eines Kindes ist schon so bewegend, dass ich mich kaum von dem Buch losreißen konnte, aber die vielen Ergänzungen - Geschichten zu Grabsteinen, Vergleiche mit Sitten und Gebräuchen der Viktorianer, Zitate zu den witzigsten Gelegenheiten aus dem Book of Etiquette von Lady Troubridge, dem britischen Pendant zu Knigge und immer wieder Lebensgeschichten, mal kurz, mal ausführlicher - machen es zu etwas Besonderem. Ich hoffe, dass es von Ruth Hogan noch viel mehr zu lesen gibt. Und bald.
.
.
But there will be no angel to mark my grave. No one will come to my funeral except the undertakers and the vicar. There will be no flowers, no hymns, no tear-jerking music. No tears at all, in fact. Because there will be no mourners. The care home - or Happy Endings, as I have nicknamed it - where I shall have spent my old age waiting for death in inappropriate frocks and shoes, smelling of cheap rose talcum powder and wee and wearing smudged red lipstick on my teeth, will be very glad to be rid of me. The vicar, who will no doubt be short and skinny, with a weak chin and a lisp, and wearing beige Y-fronts under his vestments (or, in these days of fledgling ecumenical equality, thousand-wash-grey knickers and a bra with as much 'come hither' as a dentist's chair) will probably dismiss my coffin to the burner with the words 'Thunderbirds are go!'
I might get a prayer if I'm lucky.
.
.
From here I can see the mourners returning to the cars, and none of them is wearing black. There is green and brown and blues, and even red. But no black. It was probably stipulated in the funeral notice - 'No black'. No bombazine. It seems to be more usual nowadays for bright colours to be worn to 'celebrate the life of the deceased'. Lady T must be turning in her grave. Her advice on this matter is unequivocal: 'Vivid colours, either on a man or a woman, show a disregard for the feeling of the mourners, a lack of respect for oneself, and a distinct ignorance of the laws of good conduct.'
She would undoubtedly feel that brightly dressed funeral guests were not taking the matter seriously, but I should prefer people at my funeral to be seriously stylish in scarlet, rather than bleak and boring in black.
The doors of the limousines are closed with a soft clunk by the undertakers; serious and dignified now in their tall hats. The cars snake slowly down the hill, under the arch of the lodge building and out of the iron gates. As the cortège disappears back into the land of the living, I wonder if the grieving family cocooned inside the long black cars are looking out at the bustling streets where daily life continues, callously regardless of their loss. I wonder if any of them is thinking, as I have done, 'How can the rest of the world be so completely unaffected by this death? How can everything else be so normal?'
But death is normal. We just can't admit it anymore.

(Ruth Hogan, The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes, 2018)

... Comment ... Thema: Bücherliste 2017, Ruth Hogan, Gesammelte Fundsätze

Online for 8267 days
Last modified: 19.11.24, 21:14
Status
Sie sind nicht angemeldet
Main Menu
Suche
Calendar
November 2024
So.Mo.Di.Mi.Do.Fr.Sa.
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
Oktober
Letzte Änderungen
Bücherliste 2024 76, WG57, E73,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Arthur Conan Doyle,...
Baba, vor 2 Tagen
Bücherliste 2024 74, WG55, E71,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Stephen King, Bazaar...
Baba, vor 1 Woche
TV Darlings von 1977 bis
heute "Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?...
Baba, vor 2 Wochen
Bücherliste 2024 73, WG54, E70,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Michael Connelly, The...
Baba, vor 2 Wochen
Bücherliste 2024 72, WG53, E69,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Michael Connelly, Dark...
Baba, vor 2 Wochen
Bücherliste 2025 71, WG52, E68,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Michael Connelly, The...
Baba, vor 3 Wochen
Bücherliste 2024 70, WG51, E67,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Michael Connelly, Ressurection...
Baba, vor 3 Wochen
Bücherliste 2024 69, WG50, E66,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Michael Connelly, Desert...
Baba, vor 4 Wochen
Bücherliste 2024 68, WG49, E65,
/ NG19, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Stephen King, Full...
Baba, vor 4 Wochen
Bücherliste 2024 67, NG19, E64,
/ WG48, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Michael Connelly, The...
Baba, vor 1 Monat
Bücherliste 2024 66, NG18, E63,
/ WG48, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Ian Rankin, Midnight...
Baba, vor 1 Monat
Bücherliste 2024 65, WG48, E62,
/ NG17, D3, Frz0, B4, NA0, C0 Jane Austen, Persuasion...
Baba, vor 1 Monat
Bücherliste 2024 64, WG47, D3,
B4 / NG17, E41, Frz0, NA0, C0 Willard Price, Ich...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 63, NG17, E61,
/ WG46, B3, D2, Frz0, NA0, C0 Peter James, One...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
In Memoriam Maggie Smith Wieder
eine Nachricht, die mich traurig stimmt: Dame Maggie Smith ist...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 62, NG16, E60,
/ WG46, B3, D2, Frz0, NA0, C0 Tanya Huff, Smoke...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 61, NG15, E59,
B3/ WG46, D2, Frz0, NA0, C0 Tanya Huff, Relative Magic...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 60, NG14, E58,
/ WG46, B2, D2, Frz0, NA0, B0, C0 Tanya Huff,...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 59, NG13, E57,
B2 / WG46, D2, Frz0, NA0, B0, C0 Tanya Huff,...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 58, NG12, E56,
/ WG46, D2, Frz0, B1, NA0, B0, C0 Tanya Huff,...
Baba, vor 2 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 57, WG46, E55,
/ NG11, D2, Frz0, B1, NA0, B0, C0 Tanya Huff,...
Baba, vor 3 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 56, WG45, D2,
B1, / NG11, E54, Frz0, NA0, B0, C0 Otfried Preußler,...
Baba, vor 3 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 55, WG44, E54,
/ NG11, D1, Frz0, NA0, B0, C0 Patricia Bray &...
Baba, vor 3 Monaten
Bücherliste 2024 54, WG43, E53,
/ NG11, D1, Frz0, NA0, B0, C0 Tanya Huff, Into...
Baba, vor 3 Monaten
Baba war in Urlaub: Rügen,
die zweite Anders als bei unserem ersten Besuch vor 6...
Baba, vor 3 Monaten

RSS feed

Made with Antville
Helma Object Publisher