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Dead Good Reading
@deadgoodreading.bsky.social
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Death Scholar. Book Blogger. Co-host the Death Studies Podcast. I review books on death, dying and the dead. Dutchie 🇳🇱 living in Finland 🇫🇮 See: deadgoodreading.com
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The Cow with ear tag #1389 is a thought-provoking read about cows, slaughter, meat and dairy industries, and the myth of the happy cow

💙📚 Full review here:

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Copy of the book “The Cow with Ear Tag #1389”- which has a photo of a cow on the cover, resting on a tree trunk covered in green moss
October 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Unexpected item in an army surplus shop in Finland #RoyalMail
A red Royal Mail jacket
July 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I might be biased, but isn’t this the most handsomest cat?!

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The most handsome tabby cat
June 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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New blog! Legacy by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social is a powerful anger and thought-provoking memoir that outlines the ongoing and pervasive racism present in healthcare, and how skin colour affects health outcomes and life expectancy.

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The book Legacy, with a blue cover with a colourful stethoscope resting against a tree stump surrounded by dirt and tree branches
May 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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In the Library Book by @susanorlean.bsky.social I may have found my favourite phrase to describe someone has died. In Senegal they say “someones library has burned”, and I think that’s beautiful.

Full blog here:
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The Library Book, with a lovely blue and gold cover, nestled on top of a rotting tree (it looks nicer than my description abilities)
April 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Book mail is the best mail!

A copy of the edited collection Death & Institutions, including my chapter Institutional Thoughtlessness: prison as a place for dying landed in my mailbox

Thanks to the editors for inviting me to contribute! @cendeathsociety.bsky.social 💙📚
A copy of Death and Institutions photographed in my garden on a bed of moss and twiggs The book opened on the page that starts my chapter entitled Institutional thoughtlessness : prison as a place for dying
April 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The Great Dead Body Teachers by Jackie Dent is a fascinating account on full body donation, human anatomy and the history and ethics of dissection 💙📚

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The colourful book the Great Dead Body Teacher resting on a tree trunk
April 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🐣New blog 🐣

🪺 Happy Easter🪺

The Great Dead Body Teachers by Jackie Dent delves into the world of body donation, dissection and teaching human anatomy 💙📚

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The book the Great Dead Body Teachers resting on a tree trunk
April 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Starting Easter Sunday with a book about books, as the rain pours down outside- what is everyone else reading? 💙📚
The Library book by Susan Orlean pictured in bed. My cat sits on the top left of the bed.
April 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs review on Dead Good Reading 📚💙

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The green/gold book A Stone is Most Precious Where it belongs resting against a pile of my old sauna stove stones
April 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Maggie Nelson’s Bluets taught me a Dutch expression: ‘dat zijn maar blauwe bloempjes’ 📚💙
Page of a book which has the expression ‘dat zijn maar blauwe bloempjes” or a bunch of lies
January 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Merry Christmas! Hyvää Joulua! Vrolijk kerstfeest! 📚💙💙📚
December 25, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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Sarah Ahmed is getting me through the shortest day of the year- what are other people reading?

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A hand holding the book The Feminist Killjoy Handbook in front of a window. A white snowy scene outside, as fresh snow keeps falling. The book has vivid rainbowy colours, in contrast to the white outside
December 21, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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I believe @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social is just making up surgeon’s names in the Facemaker at this point 🥐
Passage of the Facemaker. The surgeon is named René-Jaques Croissant de Garengeot
November 17, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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New review 💙📚🐦📚💙

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October 28, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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October 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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October 21, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Interested in death, dying and bereavement? @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social and I wrote the book Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and bereavement.

Discount code in next post!
Photo of the book, taken in my garden. There's a wheel barrow in the background and the leaves are still green
October 21, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Read my most recent blog about Grief is For People 👇

I welcome suggestions for my next read!

💙📚 #booksky

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October 19, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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New blog! Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley 👇

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Photo of the book grief is for People taken in front of a blossoming apple tree
October 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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Sundays are for reading 🤓
September 15, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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Are you a taphophile interested in French burial customs than this is the book by Kaylee P. Alexander might be for you!

Read my review:

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Photo of a data driven analysis of cemeteries and social reform in Paris reading on a cut down tree stem
August 27, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Very exciting book mail! Thank you @chriswoodyard.bsky.social for sending a copy! 🥰

💙📚 @landisblair.bsky.social 🐦📚
Cover of A is for Arsenic. Photo taken in my backyard. Remnants of snow and trees in the background.
March 22, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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New blog! I highly recommend All The Living and The Dead by @hayleycampbell.bsky.social to anyone interested in the lived reality of professionals working in the field of death, particularly with dead bodies 📚💙

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February 27, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Not a bad way to spend a Sunday! What's everyone else reading? 📚💙
Copy of All the Living and the dead by Hayley Campbell
February 18, 2024 at 4:17 PM