From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlyn Doughty, 272 pages

In From Here to Eternity, mortician and self described "Death Enthusiast" Caitlyn Doughty travels the world to answer her own questions about funerals and funerary rights. 

In Indonesia, we find families who care for their loved ones for years after their deaths. Spain shows us familiar, but distinctly different funerals where families put walls of glass between themselves and the dead. In America, a graduate student researches how best to return us to the earth from whence we came. From digital Buddhas to candle lit cemeteries, the author continuously challenges the reader to look toward their own mortality and decide for themselves what they consider a "Good Death".

Immune

Immune by Philipp Dettmer, 341 pages

Inspired by his own curiosity and the work done for his stunningly successful YouTube channel, Kurzgesagt - In A Nutshell, Dettmer's book is a surprisingly beautiful and wonderfully readable run down of what exactly your immune system is and how it works dutifully each day to protect you.

For the last two (plus) years, we've been surrounded by messaging about viruses and vaccines and antibodies and... and... and...

This book was easily one of the most readable non-fiction books I've ever had in front of me in my life. I wish all of my school text books had been written like this. Immune uses basic language and is full of beautiful illustrations, pithy footnotes, and hilarious metaphors (did you know your cells have hot dog buns and weiners???). Anyone who wants to better understand what their body is doing to keep them safe during a pandemic, or any time, would enjoy this book.