The Things We Learn When We're Dead
Book description
The Things We Learn When We're Dead is about how small decisions can have profound and unintended consequences, but how we can sometimes get a second chance.
On the way home from a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. When she wakes up she…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Things We Learn When We're Dead as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In quite a challenging tale Lorna Love finds herself dead and on a spaceship. As the memories of her life return we find a question being posed; does the way you remember things affect the influence they have on your life? It’s quite a quirky book but generates a lot of thought about the way you view events and the way you let them affect you.
From Janet's list on that make you think ‘what if…’.
If you love The Things We Learn When We're Dead...
Tap Dancing on Everest
Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part true-survival adventure story, is about a young medical student, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet.
The team attempts a new route up…
Want books like The Things We Learn When We're Dead?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Things We Learn When We're Dead.
Share your top 3 reads of 2024!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,898
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like The Things We Learn When We're Dead, you might also like...
Fresh Eggs and Dog Beds
Nick and Lesley Albert yearn to leave the noise, stress and pollution of modern Britain and move to the countryside, where the living is good, the air sweet, with space for their dogs to run free.
Suddenly out of work and soon to be homeless, they set off in search…
We're All Mad Here
Fiercely opinionated and unapologetically peculiar, Marie Kuipers credits her New Jersey upbringing for her no-f*cks-given philosophy. As for why she spent most of her adult life underemployed, she points at her mom—who believes she knows better than God Himself—for that.
We’re All Mad Here dares to peer behind the curtain…
