This page is where I am documenting my writing progress and my thoughts on a variety of topics having to do with literature. Some are short, some are longer, but all are formally informal. The goal is to share what goes on in my head and begin conversations.

Literary Thoughts

Books and the Death Positive Movement

This past month I reread one of my favorite nonfiction books that has haunted me since it was published. Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom is an insightful and informative exposé of morbid curiosity and alternative perceptions of death. Rosenbloom illustrates certain notions towards death have led people to create books bound in human skin known as anthropodermic bibliopegy. It was this topic that led me to discover a movement dedicated to changing how society perceives deat

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Rachel Catherine

Mar 23

My Favorite Books

The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt East of Eden by John Steinbeck Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood All texts by Edgar Allan Poe The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Robert Langdon Series by Dan Brown The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Any Liz Nugent book Ju

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Rachel Catherine

Mar 19

Rachel Catherine

Writer, Reader, & Chronic over-thinker

Literary Thoughts

Books and the Death Positive Movement

My Favorite Books