Book Time: A Random Collection from My Bookshelf
By Laura Slap-Shelton

Here are some of the books which I found inspiring, fascinating, helpful and consoling. They are presented alphabetically.

Cradled All The While, The Unexpected Gifts of a Mother's Death, by Sara J. Corse. 2004, Augsburg Books, Minneapolis. 172 pages. The story of Sara Corse's experience in nursing and ultimately losing her mother to cancer. Sara, a psychologist, mother and wife, learns that there are unexpected spiritual lessons which sustain her and her mother in the present and into the future.
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Widow to Widow, Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding Your Life, by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg, M.S. Da Capo Press, a Division of Pereus Book Group. 1995, revised 1997. 226 pages. This thoughtful book is a well written, compassionate guide to the experiences widows encounter from emotions, to taking control of your life, to rebuilding the book astutely captures the essence of the experience of widowhood in the United States. Genevieve Davis is a therapist, author and a widow who founded a support group in Tucson, Arizona.
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This Vast Being, A Voyage through Grief and Exaltation, by Ann Kreilkamp, Ph.D. In this well written and fascinating New Age exploration of Ann Kreilkamp's grief and transformative realizations the bereaved reader will find themselves newly appreciating their deepest feelings and experiences. Not for the faint of heart. 238 pages.
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Remembering with Love, Messages of Hope for the First Year of Grieving and Beyond, by Elizabeth Levang, Ph.D. and Sherokee Ilse. Fairview Press, Minneapolis. 1992. 306 pages. Addressing all of the emotions of grief, this book presents quotes from grieving individuals and comments by the authors which gently and supportively add context and understanding to the experiences of the bereaved.
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Daughters of Absence, Transforming a Legacy of Loss, by Mindy Weisel, Editor. Capital Books, Inc. Sterling, Virginia. 2002. 216 pages. Mindy Weisel has collected essays by herself and other "daughters of absense" , women who grew up in the shadow of their parents' experiences in the Holocaust, and who transformed their profound feelings of loss into their art. Beautifully written, each essay is moving and inspiring.
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