PDF The Hot Young Widows Club TED Books Audible Audio Edition Nora McInerny Simon Schuster Audio/TED Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 2 hours and 5 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio/TED Audible.com Release Date April 30, 2019 Language English, English ASIN B07L3BCN9M

The Hot Young Widows Club TED Books Audible Audio Edition Nora McInerny Simon Schuster Audio/TED Books Reviews

• A realistic view on grief, both for those who are grieving and for those who wish to better understand what someone who is grieving is going through.
• This is a GREAT little book for people who have lost someone and people who don't know what to do to support the grieving. It's real and down to earth tone, peppered with humor makes a tough subject palatable. This is a book you should give to a friend when you've lost someone as a road map for what to do.
• As a member of HYWC, I purchased and read this book, hoping to gain any additional insight into the grief journey for myself and others. Instead, I was shocked to find McInerny lifted and plagiarized significant passages from group members, and posed herself as essentially a therapist practicing without a license. To the thousands who were in HYWC before McInerny shut it down, it seems this group served no purpose other than to create fodder for McInerny's ambition to be viewed as a legitimate author. McInerny tries to parade herself as the Mother of Widows, while discussing the reality of GriefVultures. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks," said Shakespeare. Rather than being Mother of Widows, McInerny has exposed herself as Mother of Vultures, picking at the corpses of survivors to feed herself. Save yourself time and money. Find a different book. One not plagiarized, one written by an actual therapist, preferably both.
• I doubt I will read this based on how the description was written. It's too cheeky and playful like "Yay! Someone died! Someone will die! Read this book!" Not a way to market a book about grief and the death of a spouse.
  
  "Welcome to The Hot Young Widows Club. Maybe you haven’t lost a spouse (yet!). That’s okay. This book is a club of it’s own. Not just for those who have survived a spouse, but for anyone who has loved someone who died, or who has loved someone who loved someone who died. It’s for anyone who currently loves someone who will die, or who knows a person who loves someone who will die. Like it or not, you’ll join someday."
• I am a pastor who walks with people through loss more than I care to. I recommend the actual HYWC (hot young widows club) to people I know who have lost a spouse. There is something profoundly powerful to be with people who actually DO know exactly what you are going through. Losing a spouse is not the same as the loss of a friend, a sibling, or a parent, but some of the truths that the experience of spousal loss brings are universal when it comes to losing people you love. This book is such a gift for those who have loved and lost. I read it, cried, and immediately passed it on to a friend who had just buried her mother. That friend called me crying not two days later after reading it and loving it too.
  Nora has a gift of being able to make me laugh and cry in the same moment, sometimes the same breath. I'm so thankful for her wit, her honestly, her vulnerability, and her willingness to not let her real and deep grief be hidden in order to make those of us outside it more comfortable. She reminds me, often, of the power of both/and. That we can laugh and cry. That we can be grieving and still find joy, that we can be serious and lighthearted. Both/and. All can be true. And that's what life is. Life (and death) are never just one thing. I'm so thankful for this book. I'll continue to pass it on to those who need it (which is most of us).
• I haven’t read it, interested though. Just by reading the excerpt, my take away is WOW this gave me a new understanding on grief. I love and welcome the author perspective on grief. I lost my father 10 years ago. Apart of me is reaching out for a high five and saying dude, I got you. Thanks for sharing your story on grief. Now can we bring it in for a hug? Because I hate cheeky saying like I’m so sorry for your loss. Just give me a hug. And a greasy hamburger haha ;)
• Looking forward to another amazing book!
• The loss and grief I’m facing right now isn’t even from death, but this book made me feel seen and heard for the first time in a long while. Life is HARD, but Nora makes it a tiny bit better by bringing the knowledge and wisdom that she learned from her losses and griefs. I highly recommend this book to every single living person ever.