Book Thoughts (formerly Book Review) #21

 The Gravedigger's Archaeology

By William Archila

    As the start to 2026, this was definitely a rattler. 

    Normally, I go for something a hair lighter than this. Kind of thought this would be more comedic than it was. But this... This wasn't it. 

    This book is heavier, given the current context of events. It talks a bit about the grit of life, the spiral that life takes down to its inevitable death. And how even death isn't the end, but another path cycling back up to life in various ways. The grit is what gives it the endless nature of these things. The constant struggle to do more, do better, or do different. 

    At the end of the book, I received a reminder of the futility and ultimately the frivolity of life. Which in itself is an important lesson that I will be thinking about for the next month or so.