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Death, the character, would be played by David Tennant. Daisy would be played by Reese Witherspoon.  Why am I not working in a casting agency? Read this if you like chick lit but a little darker and very funny.

First of all, follow Emma Block on Instagram, she is amazing. This was such a positive book. There is no right or wrong when you are learning to paint. Here are two of my exercises.

This is an absolutely gorgeous book. I knew it was autobiographical and memoire together about a Russian immigrant experience but I didn't know much more. Immigrant experience and memoire is another one of the genres I will always read. My grandmother was Ukrainian and Orthodox Christian then Catholic, so I was curious about this book with the Russian dolls on the cover. Bess' grandmother is an Russian Jewish woman, lol-- my grandmother worked in a Jewish deli. If you have a strong ethnic maternal figure in your life you will belly laugh with this book. It is sweet, it is bittersweet, and it is sad. I loved it.