This is definitely a book to read in small pieces. It seems like it'd be an easy one to blow through, because each story is quite short (a few pages), and the volume itself is dimensionally slim. However, each story merits at least a few minutes of reflection before blowing through to the next one.
Though the subtitle says most of what you need to know, I'll elaborate here a bit: each story is a different idea of what the afterlife might look like. They're wildly imaginative -- some, of course, more than others, but to come up with 40 iterations (plus however many were scrapped in the editing process) is an impressive feat of creativity. Even if you're not a believe in the idea of an afterlife, the stories still present a clever game of "what if" that you can play.
Great pick, E, lots of fun to read, and also thought-provoking.
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