{"id":57155,"date":"2015-05-15T06:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenodochial-archimedes.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/2015x105x1monthly-book-review\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:28:30","slug":"monthly-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2015\/05\/monthly-book-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Book Review – Mrs. Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to another Monthly Book Review<\/a>! This month I read Still Alice by Lisa Genova<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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In case you haven\u2019t heard of it, here\u2019s a short synopsis of the book via\u00a0Goodreads<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAlice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she\u2019s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life\u2013and her relationship with her family and the world\u2013forever.<\/i>
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At once beautiful and terrifying,\u00a0Still Alice\u00a0is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s disease that is as compelling as\u00a0A Beautiful Mind\u00a0and as unforgettable as Judith Guest\u2019s\u00a0Ordinary People.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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This. Book.<\/div>\n
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You will laugh and cry and slowly start to feel a little crazy, as you see what it might be like to slowly forget everything. It is a very scary and real look into what I imagine it would be like to be diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/div>\n\n
The author is spot-on in the writing of the entire cast of characters. Alice- newly diagnosed, scared and confused, and everything in between. Her academic husband, who tugs at your heartstrings, not knowing how to deal with this news. Alice\u2019s children, who all react differently. This book is a heartwrenching depiction of what an entire family might experience in the light of such a diagnosis. And this is the first time I\u2019ve ever seen such a diagnosis through the eyes of someone who is experiencing it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
I think this sort of disease is something we all fear in the back of our minds, which may make this book hard to read for some. I\u00a0encourage\u00a0you to read it anyway. It is by far one of the best books I\u2019ve read this\u00a0year. I could not put it down. My husband looked at me like I was insane when I burst into tears several times. It\u2019s that good.<\/div>\n\n
And this is rare for me, but I don\u2019t think I have anything bad to say about it.<\/div>\n
Come back next month as we will have another review for you!What did\/didn\u2019t you like about this book?<\/div>\n
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*This post may contain affiliate links* Welcome to another Monthly Book Review! This month I read Still Alice by Lisa Genova. In case you haven\u2019t heard of it, here\u2019s a short synopsis of the book via\u00a0Goodreads: \u201cAlice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she\u2019s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life\u2013and her relationship with her family and the world\u2013forever. At once beautiful and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-reviews","category-uncategorized","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}