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    Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
    Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
    Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
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    Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel

    Written by Emily Austin

    Narrated by Emily Tremaine

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    In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.

    Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.

    In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.

    With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 6, 2021
    ISBN9781797123356
    Author

    Emily Austin

    Emily Austin is the author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space, and the poetry collection Gay Girl Prayers. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and received two writing grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa, in the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.  

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    • 3/5
      This is one of those books were I just kept on reading because I expected something to happen but nothing did. I quit reading it half way through.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      It was so boring I fast forward to the next chapter to find more boring words. It got old hearing the same story of this girl’s life.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This book was a nice listen! It’s a lot more morose and sorrow than I anticipated.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Ok story but the audio would stop and pick up 30 seconds later not knowing what had happened

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      One of the best books I read (listened to) this year.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This book was so bland. Also quite tone deaf to the people who have suicidal ideations or depression or anxiety, because i cant help but feel that all of those are completely misrepresented in this book

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      It was filled with anxiety and existential dread. It reminded me of my depressed niece.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      this book gave very much fleabag uncanney valley. like it wanted to be sapphic fleabag ft a healthy dose of my year of rest and relaxation but missed the mark by a couple hundred kilometers. it felt very flat and one dimensional and the only thing i really enjoyed was the portrayal of depression and anxiety, it felt very realistic and true to my own experiences.

      i love books where nothing happens and it’s just vibes, but honestly this book had zero character work. none of the characters, including the mc, were developed beyond base ideas.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Mieh.. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This book made me roll my eyes and laugh out loud. However I feel like it ended quickly...so much so that I actually relistened to the last 3 minutes making sure I didn't miss something.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      i think this book depicts mental illness extremely accurately and despite the main character feeling very unlikeable and at times annoying- that’s the point. i found myself frustrated, annoyed, and even disappointed with the actions and thoughts of the main character but i loved that she also felt and acknowledged that. it is truly what made the book so relatable and kept me reading. though the plot didn’t move much i think the overall message was thought provoking and left me feeling a little less alone on this tiny, minuscule rock floating in space.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Loved this! Lol moments; buying. Ghosts inside skeletons, inside meat bags ? chp 2 re: imposter syndrome= exactly.
    • 5/5
      Loved the main character
      The author was able to highlight a glimpse inside the perspective of someone suffering with some sort of panic disorder and possibly neurodivergence. Showing the reader how misunderstood people can be.
    • 2/5
      weird. did not love it. seemed like random thoughts. sorry
    • 5/5
      A true description of anxiety, ocd, and empathy all wrapped into being a millennial in a chaotic world.
    • 2/5
      This book was all over the place. Unreliable narrator or unreliable writer. The plot os lacking and the ending makes no sense. There is no climax to speak of. Nothing is resolved. Just skip it.
    • 4/5
      A mixed bag with a protagonist whose thought process is so relatable yet I did not really want to spend time there (I am already in my brain and it's enough). It did drag a lot and felt a lot longer than it should be, but, alas, it also made me feel less alone.
    • 3/5
      I really loved the beginning of this book but as it went farther I felt kind of meh
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed listening to this audiobook. Gilda's thoughts were funny and sometimes mirrored mine.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book so much, it was hilarious to view catholicism through the lense of an adult who had never been through it. Absolutely hilarious and touching.
    • 4/5
      Relatable, funny, and certainly quirky while simultaneously allowing for deep introspection about one’s own life, death, and coping mechanisms.
    • 1/5
      The story is really dull. The characters are bland, one-dimensional and pointless. Books where nothing happens usually rely on their characters and the relationship between these. This book did not provide any interesting insight, thought nor action from anyone or anything. The "plot twist" at the end is really meh and forgot about after 2 pages, just like every other scene in this book.
    • 5/5
      This is such a great book about a 20 something year old girl struggling with mental health issues trying to navigate life. Gilda lives in the moment but not in the whimsical carefree way, she does so because she is completely unsure of what the next day will even bring. She struggles to make it thru her daily life and complete simple daily task yet she continues to keep going. She is caring and compassionate but not in a way that is always obvious to those around her. She isn’t in control of her own life and feelings but genuinely wants what is best for all around her.
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars
      Liked the story, felt like an accurate depiction of the challenges in living with mental health issues, but I found the mc mostly unlikeable.
    • 4/5
      Great and emotional story about a girl that lives in her head, I really enjoyed it!
    • 5/5
      Disclaimer: I haven’t finished the book yet. However, I’ve fallen in love with the main character. The narrator does a great job becoming the character. I’ve chuckled a few times.
    • 5/5
      I truly loved this book. Emily captures stream of consciousness with persuasion. The thought spiral, as I call it is captured in a way I’ve never read before. Very human and thought provoking.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant writing, loved the ending, I work in behavioral health and will be referencing some of this for my patients!
    • 5/5
      This book really made me happy. Great job. Thank you.
    • 4/5
      Meet Gilda. A gay atheist with debilitating anxiety. Sweet, poignant, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad.