Monday, July 27, 2009

Highly recommended reading!

For the last 24 hours I have been obsessed with a book...and I just finished it. "Still Alice" is a novel written by Lisa Genova. It is the story "about a young woman's descent into dementia through early-onset Alzheimer's Disease". Alice is a 51 year old wife, mother of 3 grown children, and a psychology professor at Harvard. The story is told through the eyes of Alice.

I was going to write about this last night after reading more than 1/2 the book, but opted instead to try to get a good night's sleep (unsuccessful too). After finishing it tonight, I so want to blog about it, but my sleepless night is catching up with me.

All I can say is, read this book! It is heartwarming, scary, imformative, and I wish I would have read it before my dad came to live with us. It has put a question into the front of my mind, the answer I will never really know. What were my dad's thoughts about his journey with Alzheimer's Disease?

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