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Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints—and death is the ultimate constraint—make our actions meaningful. In Life Is Short, Rickles explains why the finiteness and shortness of life is the essence of its meaning-and how this insight is the key to making the most of the time we do have.

The Honeymoon is not a book about grief. There is grief in it, a whole truckload of grief, but it will not offer advice. I'm twenty-eight, what do I know? Instead, it will be primarily the story of my six weeks in Europe on my honeymoon alone, told succinctly and in short chapters based around specific experiences - some emotionally harrowing, most uplifting or even funny - that helped me realize, even at my lowest, that people care, and life is full of moments to be cherished.

A romantic, life-affirming memoir about a young woman’s solo honeymoon to Europe after her fiancé’s sudden death weeks before their wedding, and the community of hope and wonder she built along the way When Laura and Devon sat down to plan their honeymoon, Castellina in Chianti, Italy, was...