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Jan 20, 2011

Nancy rated it:

Barnes & Noble are return Nazis. When I tried to return a Christmas gift for store credit (no receipt - it was a gift), the clerk was quite nasty about it. So I conceived an evil scheme: I would buy a book I was only mildly interested in (Lisa Genova's Left Neglected), read it, and then return it. Take that, B&N!

A problem arose.

Lisa Genova's book is...really good. Fascinating, actually. Sarah, the hard-driving, consulting-firm executive and mother of three, wins t More...

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Dec 30, 2011

Nora rated it:

رغم أنه لا يمر يوم إلا وأقرأ فيه مقالاً أو نصاً أو حتى بحثاً باللغة الإنجليزية لأغراض دراسية بحتة، إلا أن هذه أول رواية إنجليزية أقرؤها بلغتها الأصلية، نسخة كاملة غير مبسطة، قراءة كاملة من الغلاف للغلاف. إنجاز أعتبره نصراً صغيراً :)

لغة السرد جميلة، وقصة ذات نمط هادئ. سارا نيكرسون، امرأة ناجحة أكاديمياً وعملياً، تحاول أن توازن بين عائلتها، زوجها وأطفالها الثلاثة، وبين ضغط العمل المجهد، ومتطلبات حياةٍ عملت وزوجها بجدّ و كدّ كي يحصلا عليها كاملة بالمقاييس الأمريكية.
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Apr 03, 2011

Thomas rated it:

I felt intellectual while indulging in Lisa Genova's latest novel, Left Neglected. I wish my chemistry textbook was as interesting as this book, maybe then I'd be more inclined to actively participate in class.

Anyway, reading this book was a vicarious experience. It is about a self-proclaimed overachiever, Sarah Nickerson. She manages a position as vice president of a prominent consulting company as well as her husband and three kids. This Harvard graduate suffers from an overbooked More...

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Sep 04, 2011

Stephanie rated it:

First of all, I think that the title of this book is very clever, just like the novel. When I picked up this book and even after reading the blurb, I had no idea that this book was about a neurological condition - in fact, I'd never even heard of 'Left Neglect' which is a condition also known as hemispatial neglect. This book definitely opened my eyes and taught me about this condition which I previously had no idea about. It was interesting to hear about the main character, Sarah, both before a More...

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Aug 01, 2011

Daniel rated it:

In Still Alice Lisa Genova stunningly put into words a woman's sudden and devastating diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's disease. What worked so well was how the book was told from Alice's POV - and you see how she first is able to recognise what is happening to her, and her recognition of how it is effecting those around her, until gradually the condition takes over and so that awareness begins to disintegrate. But at the same time, the novel remained hopeful - despite some dark turns - and t More...

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Oct 28, 2011

Felicity rated it:

So Jodi Picoult's little blurb on the front of the book is true..."Left Neglected" is even better than "Still Alice." In one respect, that's not difficult. "Still Alice" was about a degenerative illness-Alzheimer's--where things could only get worse. In spite of the little that is known about the neurological condition, Left Neglect, there is hope--at least in this story--that things can improve. And that things can improve in different ways--not just Sarah Nick More...

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Dec 07, 2011

Itsjustme-wendy rated it:

Well it is not such a surprise to me that the Author of "Still Alice" would put out another 5 star book!
I loved this book so much I even had a hard time putting it down to eat dinner. This is going to be one of my favorite books of 2011. The first 60 pages reads very much like a Chick-Lit book, it is light and funny. A day to day account of the everyday life of an average middle class working wife and mother of 3. It is about her kids misbehaving, teacher meetings, her stressful More...

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Jan 19, 2011

Ashley rated it:

This book was interesting. I didn't find it as gripping as "Still Alice" (which is one of my favourite books) but it was a good story. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it a bit more if I had waited to read it as I have a family member dealing with the effects of trauma to the brain and I am sensitive to the topic. Still, I would definitely recommend this one to everyone who enjoyed Genova's first book "Still Alice".

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Feb 08, 2011

Susan rated it:

Not as good as her first novel Still Alice but overall a good story about a successful business woman/mother and how she learns to deal with a brain injury ( actually called Left Neglect) after a car accident. This author really makes you feel you know the main characters personally...Not a page turner but definitely a nice informative read with lots of humor interjected throughout.

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Apr 10, 2011

Andrea rated it:

this book started with a self absorbed work a holic who loved her family but had little time for them - but it all changed when an accident left her brain damaged - she needed a new plan for life.

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Aug 05, 2011

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Sarah Nickerson and her husband, Bob, have a successful if utterly chaotic life. Sarah is the VP of human resources for an international HR consulting firm and Bob works for a struggling technology startup, they have a beautiful house in an affluent Boston suburb, and they rarely have any time that doesn't involve their jobs or their children. While the pressure is staggering, especially after their oldest child, Charlie, is presumed to have ADHD, Sarah knows this is the life she wants to lead. More...

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Jan 31, 2012

Jill rated it:

I am definitely a fan of Lisa Genova! I enjoyed this book as much as her first, Still Alice. I love that Genova is trained and knowledgeable in neuroscience, but writes in a manner so relatable. I find brain issues fascinating and Genova allows the reader to learn more about not only the condition itself, in this case left neglect, but also about how the condition affects the patient, their spouse, children, coworkers, friends, etc. This novel also brings up the issue of simplifying our live More...

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Jan 17, 2012

Arlene added it

Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but charmed life with her husband Bob, faithful nanny, and three children—Lucy, Charlie, and nine-month-old Linus.
Between recruiting the best and brightest minds as the vice president of human resources at Berkley Consulting; shuttling the kids to soccer, day care, and piano lessons; convincing her son’s teacher that he may not, in fact, have ADD; and making it home in t More...

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Jan 06, 2012

Jill rated it:

This is about Sarah, who works 80+ hours a week at a strategy consulting firm while raising three young children with her husband Bob, who is equally consumed by his demanding career. She does not question her lifestyle, despite persistent exhaustion and nightmares, her son's struggles in school, and her increasing alienation and detachment from her family. One day, she crashes her car on a rainy morning commute. While in the hospital recovering from a brain injury, she longs for her job more More...

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Jan 05, 2012

Margaret rated it:

I enjoyed this book a lot. It gave me a lot to think about, but I find the character's impression of stay at home parents almost offensive. We get to hang out and relax and watch our children play? We see them leave and wonder how they can not be there for their children? This is a job and I'm in awe of women and men who can manage both their lives, their children's lives and their work. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it and perhaps she's read too much into the responses of the other parents. More...

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Jan 02, 2012

Jbachelder rated it:

Super successful Harvard Business School graduate Sarah Nickerson can juggle her job, 3 kids, husband, 2 houses, long hours, and anything that comes at her. She is the ultimate multi-tasker, and she revels in having it all. When the stress gets too bad, she allows herself a five-minute crying jag, then she's ready to plunge back into the fray. When a car accident leaves her with brain damage and a neurological injury called Left Neglect, where she isn't paralyzed but can't recognize the left More...

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Dec 15, 2011

April the Cheshire Meow rated it:

A thought provoking story about a high-powered, highly educated and highly competitive business executive who is also a mother and a wife. Her life is blur, she a multi-tasking, successful and respected VP, she juggles her job with the accompanying high-end tech which forever connects her to her work, and although she is a loving mother, she could not manage without her nanny. Her husband enjoys the same life goals and competitiveness, and while his job is not as well-paid as hers and the comp More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Marleen rated it:

This review contains one possible (minor) spoiler near the end.

Sarah Nickerson is in her thirties and leading a very busy life. Between her high-powered, demanding and stressful job, her husband and her three young children she doesn’t have time to stop and think and has to schedule every activity in her own and her children’s lives to the last second. It is the life she and her equally busy husband have always dreamed of though, so most of the time Sarah is proud of and happy with her More...

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Nov 13, 2011

Tina rated it:

This book isn't as good as Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice, but is still worth a read. It's about a harried, executive mom whose life comes to a halt when she's in an automobile accident and is left with left neglect syndrome. She can only see and process the right side of things -- a clock, a plate of food, a picture... As with her other book, Genova does a good job describing the neurological problem. You feel as if you understand it medically and emotionally. I enjoyed her description of More...

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Nov 06, 2011

Ms.pegasus rated it:

Left Neglect is a neurological condition resulting from right-hemisphere brain damage. Working from an assumption that the brain matches sensory input to a number of expected templates, we gain some understanding of how the patient is not aware of the deficit until it is brought to her attention. Thus, Sarah thinks she is drawing a complete face, or seeing the food on both sides of her plate. (Her drawing only has one eye, and the food on the left side of her plate is uneaten). The most inte More...

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Oct 19, 2011

Therese rated it:

Read (4/2011). This is a book I think a lot of people but, especially a lot of women can relate to quite well. The protagonist is Sarah, an upper middle class career-driven supermom who is the VP of human resources at a consulting firm. While driving and using her cellphone she gets into a car accident, and as a result, she suffers from a traumatic brain injury which effectively removes the left side of her existence.

At first she is in complete denial that she won't fully recover and More...

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Oct 12, 2011

Agatha rated it:

By the same neurophysicist author as Still Alice. Features a 30-something mom who suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of a car accident, leaving her with a condition called Left Neglect, in which she cannot see, feel, or control anything on the left side of her body. (And it cannot be corrected simply by turning one’s head more towards the left; it is like the blind spot in our eye where the optic nerve connects to the brain; our brain “fills in” for that spot and we actually do More...

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Oct 05, 2011

Nancy rated it:

I bought this novel recently planning to join a local book club, and started it immediately. Usually, if I am not liking a book, I make myself read 50 pages anyway to give it a chance. In this case, I was up to page 62 and still wondering why the heck did the bookstore owner choose this one for the local book club. For the sake of joining the local reading community, I pressed on anyway.

Eventually, I found the story interesting because it is based on what happens to the brain and one' More...

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Sep 28, 2011

Pixel rated it:

I don't know what to think about this book. It started really great, but when I reached the end I felt completely drained. Not because it's a bad book, but rather because I don't feel I gained/learned much by reading it. Except that there is a condition called Left Neglect. It didn't made me laugh or cry or even think too much. I don't know...maybe I'm just hard to please?!

Left Neglect, also known as unilateral neglect and hemispatial neglect, is a real neurological syndrome that occur More...

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Sep 23, 2011

Catriona rated it:

Wow! I definetly could not put this down. A marvellous story about a woman trying to do it all - juggle career, family, husband and life until one day she looks down to make a phonecall in her car and looks up again to see the traffic ahead has stopped. In an instant her life is changed. When she wakes up in hospital the trauma of the accident has left her with left neglect. Left does not exist for her, her mind ignores all information coming in from the left. She cannot move her left side More...

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Sep 22, 2011

Arryn rated it:

I enjoyed this book, although it wasn't nearly as gripping to me as Still Alice. I didn't feel emotionally invested on the same level, probably because I had a harder time relating to Type-A, overextended, ultra-competitive Sarah Nickerson. She wants to believe that you really can have it all, and I tend to disagree. In the end, the realignment of her priorities gave me hope for her marriage and children. I was fascinated to learn about left neglect, a neurological condition in which your br More...

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Sep 13, 2011

Siobian rated it:

Sarah Nickerson is a career-driven woman who lets nothing get in the way of being the best at her job, including her three children. She is constantly juggling the needs of her kids, the needs of her career, and her own personal needs. Her day begins with rushing her children and trying to get them ready for school and day care, then she drops them off at their appropriate places and rushes to work. There she rushes to meet all of her deadlines, make all of the phone calls, and answer all of More...

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Sep 13, 2011

Cardmaker rated it:

Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. After a brain injury steals her awareness of everything on her left side, Sarah must retrain her mind to perceive the world as a whole. In so doing, she also learns how to pay attention to the p More...

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Sep 12, 2011

Paula rated it:

This book was incredible, most books that are read and reviewed are mystery, paranormal and don't deal must with what could happen to someone. In this book we follow the lives of Bob and Sarah Nickerson who are so busy working, commuting, raising their kids and rushing through the days, they miss out on the small things with their kids.

Charlie their son is dealing with school issues due to ADHD not being diagnosed. Sarah finds herself in a horrible car accident which has left More...

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Sep 02, 2011

Camy rated it:

Having read Still Alice, I was very keen to read this book when Shannon offered it up. I had actually not heard of it or even had a clue what this novel was remotely about. The title alone is vague enough - you could very well think it was about being abandoned and physically left alone. I did not love this book - I liked it enough because it opened my eyes to something that I was completely clueless about. From this aspect, it was a great learning book and I did appreciate how the story unfolde More...

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