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I am reading this as my daily practice for 2026. Because of travel and my dad’s final illness and death, I ended up reading this in larger chunks, “several days” at a time in the last two-thirds of the year. I believe this would be well used as a short reflection before/after a yoga or meditation practice. However, it works well as morning reflection.

I am currently at the beginning of chapter 7. I think Natalie may be one of the least self-aware and most annoying characters I have met - and I say this as someone who sees just a little too much of my younger self in her. Well-drawn unlikable and unreliable narrator!

Great first line: “We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?”

Quick read. Interesting that she writes in the first person in the voice of her grandmother...hence the appelation "true-life novel."

I've been listening to the Audible version of this. It's so good I went to buy a hard copy that I can mark up. Fascinating cultural evolutionary exploration of gods/god in the context of historical religions.

...the stuff you wish you had known 15 years ago...

Small print and 520 pages....I better get cracking!