Still Alice
Registered by rastaprincess of Kreuzberg, Berlin Germany on 10/1/2013
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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from amazon.de: Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease.
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's 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 could not put this book down, and yes I shed some tears. well written book, quite a sad story obviously. Yet also very engaging and with funny moments.
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's 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 could not put this book down, and yes I shed some tears. well written book, quite a sad story obviously. Yet also very engaging and with funny moments.
Journal Entry 2 by rastaprincess at High Line in New York City, New York USA on Tuesday, October 1, 2013
I want to visit the High Line park later on today and will release it there somewhere.
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CONGRATULATIONS for finding this book & THANKS for visiting this website!
Feel free to read & keep this book, pass it on to a friend, put it back on a shelf or somewhere else for the next reader.
Please make a journal entry to let me know that you have found the book. For example, you could write where you found it, how you like it, and what you are planning to do with it. You may do it anonymously or you may join (it is anonymous & free). BookCrossing is an online community of book lovers dedicated to sharing books, we are curious to see how far the book will travel and how its readers like it. If you journal this book as a member, you will hear from the book as it travels around. Please consider listing me, rastaprincess, or any other journaller as referring you.
I wish the new reader a happy reading & the book a good trip!!
