Hw 52- Third Third Of The COTD Book

Mortician Diaries
Precis:
  The last third of the Mortician Diaries was about her experiences as a mortician. She tells various stories. It gets more interesting towards the end because she shares insane situations within the mist of clients loosing loved ones or trying to understand it.  
Quotes:

• "Farm teaches you a lot about the realities of life and death." (pg8)
• "She told me, "As the numbness faded, I was angry. I reached over and punched him on the arm. I told him dying on me was one thing. Leaving me with three teenage boys to raise was something else!" (pg59)
• "Sometimes we worry so much about our reputation that we put what others think before whats really important in life: the people we love most." (pg 102)
• "He counseled those assembled to remember that the quality of life was more important than the quantity.” (pg 94)

Analysis:
  The mortician diaries was told by a funeral directors daughter who shares her career as a mortician by dividing book into two parts. Half of it was a guide book and the other half was about Nadle's mortician experiences. Personally i didn't find this book to be very intriguing. The only thing i liked were the stories in the third third because they were about her clients. I hated the beginning. She started out by showing how she cared to help sheep and who were deformed or abandoned. She then talks about this little lamb who she took care of all the time then was taken to get killed. She similarly then shares her experience of her cat giving birth to a deformed kitten. My point behind this is that her intro was very unexpected so it can either engage you making you wonder or disengage you. Overall it wasn't my favorite book and i definitely like the ending best.