People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks

I might as well say, right from the jump: it wasn't my usual kind of job. I like to work alone, in my own clean, silent, well-lit labratory, where the climate is controlled and everything I need is right at hand. It's true I have developed a reputation as someone who can work effectively out of the lab, when I have to, when the museums don't want to pay the travel insurance on a piece, or when private collectors don't want anyone to know exactly what it is that they own.

The Lemon Table - Julian Barnes

The Lemon Table is a collection of short stories about aging.  Barnes is inventive with these stories and they are a pleasure to read.  Both amusing and thought-provoking, it is a great collection by a great writer.  These stories are so rich in the breadth of emotion and originality that they often feel like individual novels more than short stories.

Why Suicide? - Eric Marcus

This book is laid out in a question and answer format and covers a broad range of questions about suicide.  I found it very informative and is a book well worth reading, especially by anyone touched by suicide.  I was surprised how little I understood some aspects of suicide and some of the myths that I gave some creedence.

By Nightfall - Michael Cunnigham

Touched by Sucide - Michael Myers

How does one explain the inexplicable? Make sense of the senseless? Speak about the unspeakable? When someone you know and love dies by suicide, these and many more questions--an avalance of questions--take over your life.  Suicide is a death like no other. It is deliberate and chosen. Is it rational? Rarely. Desparate? Always. Ignited by internal pain, suffering and absense of hope? Almost always. And it always leaves behind a legacy of mystery and devastation. Suicide touches you and you are never the same.                                                                                                                              This is an excellent book for those touched by suicide.  In a very straight-forward style it presents a lots of information, dispels many myths, and provides comfort for those surviving.  I like the casual format with a lot of first person stories.