A durable course on the legal nuances of survivorship and the importance of preplanning.
A practical guide to preparatory end-of-life and post-mortem care for Canadians.
Hartung’s insightful, personal approach to the somber realities of “deathcare” provides essential and motivational reading. In a heartfelt introduction, the author, a former aerospace engineer and IBM executive, notes that her life changed drastically after her mother died. The event “forced me to face grief in a way that I’d never experienced before and handed me a troubled project I was not expecting,” she candidly reveals, and she goes on to share the intimate details of her journey. Although she was dealing with crushing sadness, she ran through a checklist of tasks that were necessary for her mother’s proper cremation and her estate’s dispensation and settlement. The author writes that no one can ever be fully prepared for a death in the family; her mother’s death came during an exceptionally stressful period, she says, when her career was in flux, her home required a “long, muddy, messy and expensive drainage project,” and she’d recently undergone a cancer scare. Readers should keep in mind that laws differ from country to country, and Hartung’s text is specifically tailored toward Canadians. However, the author offers successive chapters of critical advice on estate administration, including the complexities of digital-age aspects of the process, and comprehensively examines the complexities of wills and executorship. Her linear explanations and thorough research ultimately take much of the guesswork out of interment, philanthropy, taxes, and probate laws. Charts, tables, and sidebars offer additional graphic elucidation. In a book about an industry that traditionally focuses on unsentimental legalities, Hartung infuses some much-needed humanity. Her perspective will be welcomed by readers in similar situations.
A durable course on the legal nuances of survivorship and the importance of preplanning.Pub Date: Feb. 22, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-9994501-5-1
Page Count: 288
Publisher: FriesenPress
Review Posted Online: May 9, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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