Memento Mori Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from datrappert

This is a funny and entertaining, but still rather puzzling book about a bunch of old people and their intrigues and fears sparked by an unknown caller who tells them not to remember to die (i.e., memento mori). I enjoyed this quite a bit, and the audiobook narrator was marvelous as she portrayed...

from Chatterbox

This is a fascinating novel that deals with death -- the awareness of death and age, and how secrets seem to become less significant with time. In it, a cluster of related septugenarians and octogenarians begin receiving telephone calls; the anonymous individual on the other end of the line simpl...

from lkernagh

As the Latin title states, this book is about remembering your mortality, conveyed in a form and manner that only Spark can pull off with such witticism and comedy. Set in the time period for when Spark's wrote this one - 1950's London - the story concerns a group of upper middle class friends, a...

from GingerbreadMan

I adore Muriel Spark. I love her understated, slightly detached language. I love her intricate plots. I love her pitch-perfect balance between wit and unpleasantness. I know no other writer who quite like her can tilt things completely almost in passing, with a casual flick of the pen in mid-sent...

from proustitute

A group of septuagenarians in late-1950s Britain are receiving upsetting phone calls: a man keeps harassing them, simply stating, "Remember, you must die." In Spark's hands, what would be a vehicle or device for a crime/thriller in the hands of someone like Agatha Christie instead becomes a tour ...