The Futilitarians : Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading (Hardcover)

from meandmybooks

Much more a personal memoir than a book about a book group (the "our year" in the subtitle led me to expect a broader approach to the group's experiences), Gisleson organizes her musings on grief, loss, renewal, and what might give life meaning when one is faced with loneliness and death, around ...

from cburnett5

3.5 - 4 stars The Futilitarians is a weightier book than I normally choose to read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The book is heavy on philosophy, a subject I honestly did not know very much about before I read The Futilitarians. Anne Gisleson and her husband Brad chose to create the Existential ...

from debkrenzer

Anne Gisleson's memoirs dealing with her father's death and her twin sister's suicides 18 months apart is quite a heavy read. Her husband had his own losses he was grieving through as he lost his partner and mother to his son very early in their marriage to cancer. Combine that with suffering thr...

from arubabookwoman

The author, a writer, teaches at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, is from a large New Orleans Catholic family. She and a group of "arty" friends start The Existential Crisis Reading Group. The chapters of the book correlate to the months of the year. The Group's readings weren't usually ...