Still Alice
In Lisa Genova's extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer's disease--only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it's like to literally lose your mind... Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.
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I only gave this book 3 stars because it seemed like the author just decided to stop. But I'm not sure how much further she would take the story without it becoming awful. What I liked best about the book is that it's told from Alice's point of view. She is the one living the disease. As someone with a family member with Alzheimer's I almost wish I hadn't read it. I definitely have no desire to see the movie.
But it does remind me to enjoy the go...read more
But it does remind me to enjoy the go...read more
This book broke my heart! As a 50 year old with 3 children...who has been a college professor...it was easy to relate to Ali! It was incredibly poignant to hear from her voice the horrible loss of mental faculty that accompanies Alzheimer's disease. I strongly recommend this for anyone who has a person suffering with Alzheimers in their family!
I assumed this would be a difficult read and I was correct. I had heard about this because of the movie starring Julianne Moore of the same name and all I knew is that it was about a woman with Alzheimer's Disease. It's so much more than that.
I thought this would be difficult to read simply because my dad had dementia. He had Parkinson's Disease and no one told us that Parkinson's Induced Dementia was a thing until that thing happened. Dementia ...read more
I thought this would be difficult to read simply because my dad had dementia. He had Parkinson's Disease and no one told us that Parkinson's Induced Dementia was a thing until that thing happened. Dementia ...read more
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