Riane’s Reviews > Goodbye for Now > Status Update

If this book is for you, bless you. If you give it a chance, may you find some comfort even for a quick moment and remember, it may just be goodbye for now. 6/6


1st Rating & Review January 5, 2026 📊4⭐
Change Rating & Reformat Review October 5, 2026 📊5⭐

If this book is for you, bless you. If you give it a chance, may you find some comfort even for a quick moment and remember, it may just be goodbye for now. 6/6


1st Rating & Review January 5, 2026 📊4⭐
Change Rating & Reformat Review October 5, 2026 📊5⭐

That love found is love cherished and treasured for however long we are privileged to have it. May you find comfort in your loss and joy in your sorrows. 5/6

Contrary to the depression stage of grief may suggest, the world is open and warm, only if we allow ourselves to see for that capacity. May we take the loss of our loved ones as reminders that life is indeed worth living, in the risk and reward of being able to find love so worthwhile, the length of it ceases to matter. 4/6

Tears and ache for the words embodied by this work may find its reader a way to cope with grief or to find companionship in the idea of fellow mourners if real life is lacking in that comfort. 3/6

This book was a to be read for months in an attempt to grief a great loss, in the process of which this reader lost another. As reality and this books reminds us, mortality is an all too inevitable outcome that comes for all and that it is only a matter of when, where and how. 2/6

More than a year in this book journey, loved ones lost and kept to heart, this has been a heart-wrenching read as much as it was heart-warming. To love another with so much desperation that you would envision a life where they remain even after death as you come to terms with the reality of grief and the life left to lived, yet without them that we hold dear. 1/6

Moving on from loss is as continued living versus what social expectations require; the former, a need to accept to heal to abide by what the rest of one's life has to offer, while the latter is what the world wants to occur when loss becomes an inconvenience.

In truth moving on as healing is learning to accept the reality that time comes for one's mortality. To live fully is all we can do as it awaits us.

Love, death and loss; life's undeniable fate that offers no bias in its wake where all soon meet their inevitable end. Then after it all comes grief, never mind how long/early/frequent, it shall come and soon, maybe later, pass. Life goes on, yet those that remain shall have lives forever changed as some days are just hard, even okay, they can feel unbearable.

Though never enough, remember loved ones as they were.

Life, full of twist and turns but somewhere down the line, if you are lucky enough, you find somebody to not just endure life with, but to love life with. Sometimes life is a joke, the very most precious insurmountably irreplaceable unbelievable miracle of your life is swept away and you are left crushed in its dust.

Readers may be filled with healing and crushing healing, both on the road of continued living.