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Still Alice

by Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)

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"Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her care

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Hardcover, Large Print, 429 pages

Published May 1st 2009 by Wheeler Publishing (first published January 1st 2007)

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Feb 21, 2009

Debbie rated it

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Fifty year old Alice Howland, a world-renowned expert in linguistics and a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Still Alice is the story of the unraveling of Alice's life as her disease progresses.

I started out not enjoying this book. The author's main character wasn't very likeable – she seemed too focused on how smart she was and how important and prestigious her job was, but I was quickly won over. Lisa Genova wrote from A...more

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Jun 22, 2011

Annalisa rated it

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After you read this, you will never look at Alzheimer's the same again. Nor will you ever forget it. Oh the irony.

I'd always correlated Alzheimer's disease with old age and heard the best way to combat it was to exercise your brain. I do my fair share of reading, can solve a Sudoku puzzle faster than 2% of the population, and I shun mindless chick flicks for your more intelligent thrillers, but I'll never be as brilliant as Alice, a 50-year-old Harvard professor diagnosed with early-...moreAfter you read this, you will never look at Alzheimer's the same again. Nor will you ever forget it. Oh the irony.

I'd always correlated Alzheimer's disease with old age and heard the best way to combat it was to exercise your brain. I do my fair share of reading, can solve a Sudoku puzzle faster than 2% of the population, and I shun mindless chick flicks for your more intelligent thrillers, but I'll never be as brilliant as Alice, a 50-year-old Harvard professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. If she had been a little shallow to begin with or 20 years older. If my own aunt weren't suffering from an advanced stage of the disease right now. If I weren't feeling a little hazy myself when I'm up half the night with an infant. Maybe then I could have put another barrier between me and Alzheimer's, but I can't. Alice's story scared me. A lot. After all, what are we without the identity of our thoughts? So much for those Sudoku puzzles.

I lived Alice's story right along with her, crying when she cried and smiling at her accomplishments. Telling your story from such an unreliable witness is a tough job and Genova handles it beautifully. As the book progresses, the scenes feel more and more misplaced. As a reader I was thrust into the situation along with Alice, unsure of the setting or the time or what had happened five minutes before. Genova also offers some poignant scenes where we the reader know what Alice has forgotten and our heart breaks for her. When she forgets her daughter, her husband, the layout of her house, how to lick an ice cream cone, we mourn the Alice lost right along with her and her family. I can't imagine losing everything I learned, all the way back to basic needs like how to walk, feed, or even use the bathroom. I felt Alice's frustration at forgetting words and people and most of all being shut out because she was stigmatized with this disease as though she were already dead.

Because the narration is told through Alice, there are a few plot points that get lost, but I think we gain more than we lose from her perspective. And those lost points add to all she loses. Sometimes the descriptions of Boston get a little lengthy and the medical descriptions cold and drawn-out, giving the novel a little bit of a medical journal instead of novel feel, but I was still captivated by Alice and her plight, and I loved that Genova had the background to give us a real look into Alzheimer's, to make it come alive in the pages. (view spoiler)

Even though the story is told through Alice's unreliable eyes, I felt for each of the characters in her family as well. When I wanted to be angry at John for avoiding the disease, I couldn't. I felt for him. Having a spouse go through Alzheimer's must be one of the hardest things. Not only do you watch your spouse suffer and take on the role of full-time caretaker, a major life-changing physical and financial burden, but you lose your partner and confidante. And to experience early-onset when you should be experiencing some of the best of life is devastating. I could see why he didn't want to deal with it.

I wouldn't want to see a parent go through this either. (view spoiler) I don't know. It's hard to think about. I hope I never have to.

I can't stop thinking about Alzheimer's and hoping they come up with a cure soon. Genova has done a fabulous job bringing attention to this debilitating disease and I love that she self-published because it was too important to wait. Kudos, Genova.(less)

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Jun 05, 2009

Petra X rated it

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Still Alice reads like a memoir of Alzheimer's disease written by a family member but is in fact the first novel by a neuroscientist who, apart from being a great deal younger, lives the successful life of a top academic, as does Alice.

The book is unputdownable. I read through the night; dawn came and went and still I couldn't put it down but I don't really know why. The writing was ok, a bit heavy-handed at times, the denoument was predetermined and inevitable but still the book wa...more

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Mar 01, 2009

Shannon rated it

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I give this book 5 stars not because its an amazing piece of literature but because of its impact on me. I can't stop thinking about it and when I was reading it I couldn't put it down. It is the story of Alice, a brilliant professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics who discovers she has early onset Alzheimer's disease. This book is beautiful and terrifying - ringing true in every word. To quote a reviewer, "with a master storyteller's easy el...more

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Mar 04, 2009

Jenny rated it

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This book was great. If you have gone through Alzheimer's Disase before with a loved one, you will recognize and love this character. The twist is that she has early-onset AD, so she is only 50 years old, her children are grown and she has a successful career. This was a great book. The story was great, the characters seemed real and believable, the writing was clear and direct. In fact, it reminded me a lot of Kite Runner because there too I just loved the story and the characters, but the writ...more

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Feb 24, 2009

Kimberly Whitney rated it

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Recommends it for: yes

Recommended to Kimberly by: my mother

Having this diease affecting my husbands mother (frontal lobe dementia; onset at age 58) this book shed a lot of light on some things for me. I do not have a medical background, and I had not spent much time with my mother-in-law because we have not lived close to each other, this book helped me to understand better what exactly she is going through.
Some of the situations Alice experiences brought back some memories of things my mother-in-law had done in the past, signs that possibly we c...more

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Sep 06, 2010

Jeanette rated it

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Alice is a Harvard professor, published author, and nationally respected expert in her field of study. Early-onset Alzheimer's disease nails her in mid-career and is especially devastating to her self-esteem because so much of her identity is wrapped up in her intellectual gifts and stellar memory. The story follows the gradual deterioration of Alice's mental capacity, and the attendant frustration and heartache for Alice and those who love her. There are also small triumphs along the way. Al...more

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Mar 28, 2011

LemonLinda rated it

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I reread this in 2011 for a local book club discussion and can honestly say my opinion and review as written in 2010 stands as follows:

Dr. Alice Howland is a highly respected Harvard professor in the Psychology Department specializing in psycholinguistics. She is also the much loved wife of Dr. John Howland, also a Harvard professor, and mother of three, Anna (a Harvard educated lawyer), Tom (a Harvard educated doctor) and Lydia (an actress who thus far has chosen not to attend colle...moreI reread this in 2011 for a local book club discussion and can honestly say my opinion and review as written in 2010 stands as follows:

Dr. Alice Howland is a highly respected Harvard professor in the Psychology Department specializing in psycholinguistics. She is also the much loved wife of Dr. John Howland, also a Harvard professor, and mother of three, Anna (a Harvard educated lawyer), Tom (a Harvard educated doctor) and Lydia (an actress who thus far has chosen not to attend college). Alice is at the top of her profession and is sought after for conferences all around the world. Alice realizes that the episodes of missing objects and words as well as getting lost in her own neighborhood are not normal behaviors for a 50 year old intellectual. She is then diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease and struggles to maintain as much normalcy for as long as possible.

Told from Alice's perspective inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient, this book gives us a first hand look at the initial frustrations of both the patient and the family caregivers and also takes us further into the disease as Alice begins to lose language skills, short term memories and even the names of her loved ones. Written by a Harvard educated neuroscientist, one might expect this to be a dry analysis of life as an Alzheimer's patient. That is definitely not true. It gives us a look into the disease and its progression while telling the story of an energetic and accomplished professional woman who learns to cope with a frightening disease as well as how her family and colleagues deal with her diminished capacity. All, including Alice, must learn that even as the disease ravages the innermost parts of her brain she is still Alice, still their loving wife and mother and still deserves to be treated with honor and respect.

This book is a great one for anyone to read but should be required reading for Alzheimer's patients when they are initially diagnosed and for their family, friends and/or caregivers. Highly recommend.(less)

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Dec 08, 2009

Rhonda Rae Baker rated it

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Moving and compassionate...I wanted to know more about Alice...I grew to love her and found myself cheering her on!

This was written beautifully and from the mind of one who has early-onset Alzheimer's. Wow, I was taken back and couldn't put this one down. Very realistic and informative as well as moving.

The family portrayed was so real that I had to remind myself that it was Fiction. The author did a wonderful job getting into the mind of someone with this disease and ...more

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Feb 07, 2009

Kathy Kilen rated it

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This book has changed me. Lisa Genova's writing style is wonderful- I feel more informed, aware, sensitive and moved by being engrossed in Alice's life and experience. As a nurse, I am a better caregiver from reading this book. As a nurse educator, I will use some brief passages from the book to help my students' understand and develop caring approaches to their clients and families. And sadly, as a niece, granddaughter and great-grandaughter of women who have suffered from Alzheimers Disease,...more

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Feb 23, 2009

Barbara rated it

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I couldn't put this book down. And, I agree with other reviews of this book that it was heartbreaking. But, I saw something else in this story. Pain and heartache and change comes into everyone's life in some form and not everything that comes from that is bad. Genova does a good job of showing the devastation in Alzheimers but also the beauty in redefined relationships.

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Apr 04, 2009

Sharon Ader rated it

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The subject matter of this book (Alzheimer's Disease) made it a very difficult book for me to read. The author, who is a Harvard trained neuroscientist chose to write this fictional book from Alice's point of view. Most books written about Alzheimer's is from the caregivers point of view. I believe that because of her background, and the book being recognized by the Alzheimer's Association, her description of what life is like for a victim of early-onset Alzheimer's is as close to factual as o...more

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Mar 30, 2009

Lee Anne rated it

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Before I read a page of this, knowing it was about early-onset Alzheimer's, from the victim's point of view, I imagined it would be like Flowers for Algernon, like by the end of the book, there would be nothing, text-wise. Wrong.

Then, I started reading, and I have to say, it starts a little clunky: places are over-explained, there's a lot of awkward phrasing. So I figured it would read like what it was: a formerly self-published book by a neurological wonk who'd never written fi...more

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Feb 17, 2009

Jenna Woodbury rated it

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This book will stop you in your tracks. Whatever you had been doing before you started reading Still Alice, will have to be put off until you finish...It is that good. Genova draws the reader quickly into the story of 51 year old Alice, a highly driven Harvard professor with 3 grown children. At the novel's opening Alice is travelling all over the country and world, giving lectures and attending conferences, but the foundations of her solid and successful world are starting to crumble. After ...more

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Mar 04, 2009

Julia rated it

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The main character of this book is a 50 year old woman who has a very successful and fulfilled life as a Harvard Cognitive Psychology Professor, a Husband with as many credentials and 3 grown well adjusted children. She is diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's disease. She slowly loses her thoughts and memories and is aware at first that this is happening. As the disease progresses, she is forced to give up lecturing and working all together. Each famiy member relates differently to the per...more

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Mar 27, 2009

Medora rated it

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This is a sensitive and optimistic narrative about a Harvard professor who is a victim of early onset Alzheimer's disease. It is certainly a timely topic, though at first I felt some trepidation about even thinking about it. The author, much like the title character, is a Dr. of neuroscience at Harvard, and well informed on her topic.
She shows great insight into the changing mental state of Alice as well as describing some of the same events from the perspective of those who observe Alice...more

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Jun 12, 2011

Ellen Isabella rated it

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The first reason I read this book was that I wanted to know more about Alzheimer’s disease since now I am working on my thesis that somehow related with Alzheimer’s.

Alice was diagnosed with early-onset of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 50. At first she didn’t know what was wrong with her. She kept on forgetting things but she just suspected that it might be a symptom her menopausal period. Until one day she went to a neurologist and found out the truth...

This book giv...moreThe first reason I read this book was that I wanted to know more about Alzheimer’s disease since now I am working on my thesis that somehow related with Alzheimer’s.

Alice was diagnosed with early-onset of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 50. At first she didn’t know what was wrong with her. She kept on forgetting things but she just suspected that it might be a symptom her menopausal period. Until one day she went to a neurologist and found out the truth...

This book gives quite a clear image of how the disease looked like. Genova must have been making a thorough research about this topic. The journey of the disease was described with such a well detail. It also told about how Alice felt about her disease. I could tell how Alice feared that one day, she would forget about everything, she wouldn’t be able to take care of herself, she would lose all her cognitive functions, she wouldn’t recognize her loved ones, and that one day… she would turn into a stranger…

Those thoughts depressed her even more than the disease itself. She felt the fright, anger, denial, sadness and conflict inside herself. She was a professor of Psychology at Harvard University, she had a superior cognitive ability, but nothing she could do about her disease. She realized that she would soon lose everything she had – her career, her family, her life…

Although she had her husband, John as a loyal and loving caregiver, that fact instead broke her heart. Alice’s disease has made John so defensive and he couldn’t really accept the fact that he was losing Alice. It affected his behavior towards Alice. The family conflicts were also illustrated really well of how one problem in the family could impact the other family members. Alice also felt guilty about the possibility of her children would inherit the same disease as hers.

Alzheimer’s surely changed Alice’s life, but not entirely in a bad way. Alice finally learned something, that she could have a better relationship with her youngest daughter, Lydia after many years of fight. Alice always wanted Lydia to pursue her study and get a University degree – in other word, to be like Alice – but Lydia chose her own way becoming an actress. It disappointed Alice so much, the more when her husband was proven to be supportive about Lydia’s choice.

It was a heart-breaking story, such a struggle to finish reading it. I shed tears several times during the touching moments between Alice and her husband as well during Alice and Lydia’s.

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Alice looked at Lydia in pieces, close-up snapshots of her features. She recognized each one like people recognized the house they grew up in, a parent’s voice, the creases of their own hands, instinctively, without effort or conscious consideration. But strangely, she had a hard time identifying Lydia as a whole.

“You’re so beautiful,” said Alice. “I’m so afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are.”

“I think that even if you don’t know who I am someday, you’ll still know that I love you.”

“What if I see you, and I don’t know that you’re my daughter, and I don’t know that you love me?”

“Then, I’ll tell you that I do, and you’ll believe me.”

Alice liked that.
The mother in her believed that the love she had for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.
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Jan 27, 2011

Bridget rated it

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This book really affected me emotionally. Like, really affected me. Like, I very nearly cried on the Metro during one scene and I absolutely sobbed for the last 25% of the book. I'm not sure why, exactly. My mother's grandmother had Alzheimers disease for at least a decade, but while I loved my Grandma Rose, I wouldn't say I was especially connected with her at the time of her death. (To be fair, and so I don't seem like a total dick - I was 14 and living at boarding school. Wait, I'm not sure t...more

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Jan 08, 2010

deLille rated it

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Recommends it for: People living with Alzheimer's

Recommended to deLille by: Theone Rutledge

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The biggest problem with self-published work is the lack of an editor who tells you how to go from good to great. “Still Alice” has a wonderful premise: let’s tell the story of Alzheimer’s from the patient’s point of view, but somehow the book sounds like a professor telling you the Alzheimer’s story from a patient’s point of view, rather than having the patient tell her own story. (Using first person rather than third would have been more effective.) I felt that I was reading nothing more th...moreThe biggest problem with self-published work is the lack of an editor who tells you how to go from good to great. “Still Alice” has a wonderful premise: let’s tell the story of Alzheimer’s from the patient’s point of view, but somehow the book sounds like a professor telling you the Alzheimer’s story from a patient’s point of view, rather than having the patient tell her own story. (Using first person rather than third would have been more effective.) I felt that I was reading nothing more than an extended patient case study in a research journal.

Additionally, the character of Alice blurred with the author’s identity at times… I found myself asking, “Who’s really telling the story here, Alice or Lisa Genova?” Or, one minute you felt like you were inside Alice’s head, you really knew what she was thinking, but then the frame of reference would shift to being outside of her observing from someone else’s perspective. I never totally felt connected with Alice as a real person.

I thought that the supporting cast around Alice could have been better developed, but her children were fairly one dimensional people and her conversations with them were about one subject only given that the children had only one thing that defined each of them (i.e., having a baby, auditioning for a play). The one relationship that rang partly true was the one she had with her husband, who waffled between wanting to do his best to support his wife but also feeling that he needed to look after his own interests given that Alice might not be around in his future. His practicality tended to overrule his emotions, which is typical in many men.

Having lived with Alzheimer’s in my family, I felt that the book glossed over some really hard-hitting aspects of Alzheimer’s. While it touched on the concept of suicide, the book sidestepped the issue by making Alice unable to find her pills when she (momentarily) realized that the time had come. Therefore, the book was able to end with Alice presumably slipping away into oblivion in the arms of a warm, loving, happy family. Ha. My own personal experiences with Alzheimer’s would suggest that this is not an accurate portrayal of what it feels like to actually DIE of Alzheimer’s. I felt bad that Alice had been unable to find her pills and therefore would have to go through something that she -- when she was still lucid enough to write her thoughts down -- had adamantly expressed that she did not want to have to deal with.
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May 07, 2010

Lyn rated it

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Lisa Genova has earned her stripes and proven her skill with the well-researched masterpiece that is Still Alice.

However, this book confirmed for me that I am far more afraid of loosing my ability to think than I am of pain or infirmity. I will try to bare well any challenge that is thrown my way, but I crave the luxury of retaining my memories and ability to think and reason throughout. I place a lot of value in the minds of older people. I would like to serve future generations th...moreLisa Genova has earned her stripes and proven her skill with the well-researched masterpiece that is Still Alice.

However, this book confirmed for me that I am far more afraid of loosing my ability to think than I am of pain or infirmity. I will try to bare well any challenge that is thrown my way, but I crave the luxury of retaining my memories and ability to think and reason throughout. I place a lot of value in the minds of older people. I would like to serve future generations the same way my predecessors have served me.

After watching my own sweet grandmother fight a loosing battle with dementia and Alzheimer's I found myself nodding my head a lot throughout this book. I drew many parallels and have gained a greater appreciation for my grandmother's experience.

Watching Alice go through this and realize her own uselessness was horrifying to me, because I thought of how helpless my grandma must have felt while her disease was progressing. I've honestly never considered what Alzheimer's must have been like for her. I've calculated what it meant to my parents, their relationships with siblings, and other relatives and situations. But what must it be like to watch your independence fade and realize what a burden you are becoming and will be to your loved ones? I pray I'll never know.

Another common experience I shared with Alice's family is how much communicating can take place without thinking, through feelings alone. In the later stages of my grandma's experience I remember that even though my grandma couldn't remember anything or anyone from the present, it wasn't hard to figure out if she was being treated with respect or condescension because of the way these incidents affected her mood and self-confidence.

My grandma didn't need to remember any part of a bad or good experience for it to affect her. These experiences drove home to me exactly how important it is to not allow these people to slip through the cracks in our attention.

One important positive feature of Alzheimer's that the book brought out is the unreserved love these people can offer the world. They love like few others can.

Likewise, I remember well, that as my grandmother's expectations and ability to evaluate my decisions dwindled, the love she showed for me increased and multiplied over and over. That love was sincere and fully accepting. It never felt false or inappropriate to me. It was beautiful and so meaningful during my teenage years.

I'm so glad that the end of the story brought Alice's family together and peace to her life. Her family worked hard to help her maintain her quality of life and demonstrated several ways she could add value to their lives.

There are some valuable lessons to be found in this book. Anyone who's life was/is touched by this cruel disease should pick this one up.(less)

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Jun 26, 2009

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Feb 18, 2009

Juliekjewell rated it

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This book is a fictionalized story of a woman who was a Harvard Professor until she was stricken with early on-set Alzheimers. It is written by a woman who holds a PhD in neuroscience with input from several early on-set Alzheimers people who were able to share their feelings and experiences. It touched my heart and gave me perhaps a better understanding of what these people go through. While they may not be able to express themselves as they are accustomed, they can still share a listening e...more

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Feb 26, 2009

Leeann rated it

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Recommends it for: anyone,

This was a really excellent book. I got it from the library but it may be one of those few special books that I purchase because I know I will want to read it again and loan it to my friends.

I will say, however, that it scared the crap out of me and every time I couldn't remember something or something slipped my mind, it would almost send me into a panic attack!

I will be interested to read the next book this author puts out. I hope it is as good as her first!

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Feb 21, 2009

Hendo rated it

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Even if you've never been personally affected by someone living with Alzheimer’s disease or advanced dementia, you should read this book. Still Alice is about a 50 year old woman who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, and it’s both heartbreaking and insightful. That sounds trite, I know, but the praise blurbs on the cover of this one were dead on. The author is a neuroscientist at Harvard, but her background doesn’t in anyway hinder her tale (I was afraid there’d be way too much technica...more

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Feb 06, 2009

Malissa rated it

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Haunting
Compassionate
Disbelief
Self-pity
Acceptance
Heartbreaking
Emotionally draining yet fulfilling
I haven't had a good cry like that of what I experienced as I read this book. My heart truly ached for John and Alice, and their three children.
For Alice - because she realized the whole time what was happening; she realized the need to fight and yet she knew it was a losing battle. However, in some ways she was victorious over the disease.
For Jo...more

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Feb 13, 2009

Jayne rated it

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I became completely engrossed in this self published book - written by a neuro-scientist. It is a novel - but I got caught up/lost in the realism of the book. It is so interesting how she mixes so expertly the approach of two scientists to a disease that actually needs a very emotional response. The ending is especially powerful as is her discussion of why Alzheimer's is so hard to deal with as a disease - in comparison to something like cancer. And the character of Lydia touched me in a very...more

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Feb 27, 2009

Janet rated it

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I couldn't put this book down. Maybe it was because the protagonist was about my age and one of my greatest aging fears is losing my mind, but I thought this was so touchingly written. The author is a neuroscientist so I also felt as if I was learning more about the dementia process and got a look into the world of the person who is afflicted. Really wonderful book.

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Feb 27, 2009

Renee rated it

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What a set up this is: a 50 year old woman who is a cognitive psychologist and research professor at Harvard is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. This book is so much more than a clinical journal of the horrific disease itself (although it is that too), it is about identity, and living a life that matters and about what a crisis does to a family.

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Feb 17, 2011

Jen rated it

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This was a very heartbreaking, but insightful read. While we many never really know (God willing!) what it is like to be in the mind of a person with Alzheimer's, I thought the author did a phenomenal job of bringing us as close to the experience as possible.

The story is of a middle-aged woman who is ambitious, intelligent, successful and diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. The book takes you through her rapid decline into the disease from her perspective.

You easily...more

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“She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.” — 47 people liked it

“You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are."
"I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you."
"What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?"
"Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.” — 29 people liked it

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