days without a job

According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary:
Bookcrossing
n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
(added to in August 2004)
The Bookcrossing site registers users from all around the world and puts forth the word to encourage people to share their books. [...]

I first learned about Rilke through my ears.
My mother would read - mainly to my father - the short book Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke. She would read it in its original language, in her Viennese German accent. Slowly, with feeling and time and expression, and aloud, as it is [...]

“Clarity is helpful when you’re mourning. Death is a loss, yes, but it is very confusing: you’re cut off from someone you relied upon; the anchor has gone and you drift. You are the one who is lost.”