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Left Neglected
by
Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author)
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...more
Hardcover, 324 pages
Published
January 4th 2011
by Gallery Books
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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 the daily gamble with he...more
A problem arose.
Lisa Genova's book is...really good. Fascinating, actually. Sarah, the hard-driving, consulting-firm executive and mother of three, wins the daily gamble with he...more
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.
في الربع الأول أحداث روتينية سريع...more
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.
في الربع الأول أحداث روتينية سريع...more
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 schedule, bu...more
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 schedule, bu...more
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
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
Fantastic book. Beautifully written. The author is a neuroscientist who studied at Harvard and is able to describe a very challenging medical condition in a very readable way.
The main character is struggling to balance work and family in a fictional Massachusetts town called "Welmont" (clearly a combination of Belmont and Wellesley...two upper middle to upper class towns in MA).
Everything changes when our heroine is injured in a car accident on a rainy day when she "won" the chance to drive to...more
The main character is struggling to balance work and family in a fictional Massachusetts town called "Welmont" (clearly a combination of Belmont and Wellesley...two upper middle to upper class towns in MA).
Everything changes when our heroine is injured in a car accident on a rainy day when she "won" the chance to drive to...more
WOW!
Wow, a 3 letter word that says it all.
It has been a while that I really enjoyed a book from start to finish, maybe that was why my mood was so sunny?
Before I picked this I had no clue what this book was about and that is how I prefer my reads lately.
At the start (the first 5 chapters all start with a dream , well a nightmare to be more specific) I liked the way she wrote. maybe not much happened but because of her writing I kept on reading.
Then the incident happened and to me that came from...more
Wow, a 3 letter word that says it all.
It has been a while that I really enjoyed a book from start to finish, maybe that was why my mood was so sunny?
Before I picked this I had no clue what this book was about and that is how I prefer my reads lately.
At the start (the first 5 chapters all start with a dream , well a nightmare to be more specific) I liked the way she wrote. maybe not much happened but because of her writing I kept on reading.
Then the incident happened and to me that came from...more
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 Nickerson's ability to live her condit...more
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 job, and how few...more
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 job, and how few...more
This is my second book by Genova, but my first book of any kind (well, okay, except professional ones) in which an occupational therapist plays a role, so for that alone it rates 3.5 stars! (-: (Can you guess that I am an occupational therapist by trade?)
Seriously, it's a solid story that I think many readers will enjoy, but the thing I personally found most interesting was the depiction of the experience of "left neglect" from the PATIENT'S point of view. (For the uninitiated, "left neglect" so...more
Seriously, it's a solid story that I think many readers will enjoy, but the thing I personally found most interesting was the depiction of the experience of "left neglect" from the PATIENT'S point of view. (For the uninitiated, "left neglect" so...more
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".
Can't wait to read. From Shelf Awareness: "Sarah's living a life to prove herself and prove her worth and to have something visible to point to show she's here and she matters and she's important. Through her condition she moves to the conclusion that she doesn't need all of that stuff to be important and to matter, and she has a chance to decide 'What do I want to do and what do I want to be and what is the life I want to have?' "
Women who do too much; women who can't focus on what's most impor...more
Women who do too much; women who can't focus on what's most impor...more
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.
(June) 2.5* After Still Alice, which was fabulous, I had high hopes about this book, even after hearing some negative comments about this. However, I was disappointed. This book was kinda boring! There was so much minutea about business and daily life before the accident - the dreams at the beginning of the first few chapters were pointless. I had a hard time believing a woman this smart would not realize she would probably never be able to claim her old life back. Some of her recovery scenes we...more
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.
This book was loaned to me with a glowing recommendation. I found the plot familiar and predictable, and thought the main character mentioned her cherished Harvard MBA with absurd frequency. That said, I recognize the broad appeal of pulp chick lit, and expect to see the Hollywood edition advertised soon.
Aug 05, 2011
Larry Hoffer
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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
I had previously read Still Alice by this author and was disappointed with the quality of her writing. I decided to read this book based on its subject matter, because of a brain injury in my family. I appreciate the author's attempts to bring conditions like Alzheimer's, Left Neglect, etc to the masses by putting them at the center of her novels. I also give her some slack on writing skills/style since she has a PhD in neuroscience! That said, I would have liked to learn more about this conditi...more
Wow, different book. Short story - lady gets in a car wreck, damages her brain, now her brain does not recognize the existence of "left". She doesn't see the left side of a room. She doesn't see people on the left of her, or sometimes even hear them. When watching tv, she doesn't see or hear the character on the left side of the screen. Her brain kind of blue-screens in the information so she thinks she is seeing the whole picture, but she isn't. She looks in the mirror and puts on make-up and t...more
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Fascinating, absorbing. I read this book in one sitting (I think it was 5 hours), without getting up, or moving. That is the sign of a good book.
It was recommended to me by a woman in my book group when we were discussing what to read for the next year. It surprised her that I knew what Left Neglect was. I am far too familiar with the condition, as I watched my father experience it after a stroke. I could visualize this character vividly in her struggles to realize that she still had a left arm...more
It was recommended to me by a woman in my book group when we were discussing what to read for the next year. It surprised her that I knew what Left Neglect was. I am far too familiar with the condition, as I watched my father experience it after a stroke. I could visualize this character vividly in her struggles to realize that she still had a left arm...more
Left Neglected is the author's second novel, following the success of Still Alice, which dealt with the devastating effect of early onset Alzheimer's on a 50-year old Harvard professor. Left Neglect is a medical condition resulting from a brain injury that leaves the patient completely unaware of the left side of anything: the page of a book, their dinner plate, and, of course, their own body. The victim has no control over the left side of their body and cannot see anything that is positioned t...more
Sarah, thirty-seven-year-old mother of three seems to have it all, a Harvard education, a fast-paced, high-paying job at which she works 70-80 hours a week, a home in a classy Boston suburb and a vacation home in Vermont. The only complication through the first 6 chapters is coming to grips with the ADHD diagnosis in her oldest son, Charlie, but an understanding teacher and a few behavioral modification techniques (plus medication) make this more manageable. Her entire life is turned upside down...more
Dec 14, 2012
Lily Pommier
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Recently I read a book that I found to be a page-turner with also a lot of meaning to it. The book Left Neglected by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a woman, Sarah Nickerson, who is a career-driven mother who lives in Boston with her husband, Bob, faithful nanny, and three children-Charlie, Lucy, and Linus. As the vice president of human resources at Berkley Consulting, Sarah spends most of her days recruiting the best and brightest minds. She works 80 hours a week, always keeping on task, until o...more
The terribly hectic and over-scheduled life of Sarah Nickerson comes to a sudden halt. She has an accident while trying to make a phone call on her way to work -- and her life is forever changed. She wakes up in the hospital, after brain surgery, to find that the left side of her life has disappeared. Her brain simply doesn't recognize the left side anymore - a condition that is called "Left Neglect".
And, so, Sarah begins the slow and arduous journey back to her former life. Her children are cu...more
And, so, Sarah begins the slow and arduous journey back to her former life. Her children are cu...more
Lisa Genova has written a stirring novel about a young women who in her prime of life becomes the victim of unilateral neglect as the result of a brain trauma, following a tragic auto accident. Coincidentally,it occurred as a result of texting and driving, a lesson for all of us. Sarah, must then adjust to her life where she is unable to recognize the left portion of her body. I initially found this hard to even imagine, until a book club member stated that she equated it to not being able to se...more
A Jodi Picoult style novel about a Type A, overachieving wife and mother who learns what's really important in life after suffering a traumatic brain injury that leaves her with Left Neglect. Left Neglect is a neurological disorder that leaves her unable to process images on her left side or to control the left side of her body. Frankly, the title Left Neglected was one of my favorite parts of the book, though I do give it bonus points for not having an awful Picoult-esque twist ending that will...more
In this novel, Sarah is a mom of three, a graduate of Harvard Business, and the vice president of human resources at Berkeley Consulting. She works 80 hours plus and her husband also works many, many hours. They have two homes (one in a suburb of Boston where they live and work, one in Vermont where they vacation and ski). One day she is driving to work in a rainstorm, distracted, and she gets in a terrible car accident and suffers a traumatic brain injury. This causes her to suffer from Left Ne...more
What could have been just another novel about a woman struggling to overcome a life-altering accident takes a fascinating turn when the woman’s recovery involves coping with left neglect. I had never heard of it before (it’s more officially known as hemispatial neglect), but it is the consequence of damage to one hemisphere of the brain.
In Left Neglected, we meet Sarah, a businesswoman and mother of three who could really use an extra few hours in her day to accomplish everything. One morning, a...more
In Left Neglected, we meet Sarah, a businesswoman and mother of three who could really use an extra few hours in her day to accomplish everything. One morning, a...more
“Left Neglected” is one of the most inspirational books I have read this year. It tells the story of 37-year-old Sarah, a busy, intelligent and hard working career woman, wife and mother of three young children, who sustains a traumatic brain injury in a car accident on her way to work. Waking up in hospital Sarah is told that she suffers from a neurological condition called “left neglect”, also known as hemispatial neglect, in which her brain is unable to perceive anything on the left, even the...more
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I'm a Harvard-trained Neuroscientist, a Meisner-trained actress, and an entirely untrained writer!
My first novel, STILL ALICE, winner of the 2008 Bronte Prize, nominated for 2010 Indies Choice Debut Book of the Year by the American Booksellers Association, and winner of the 2011 Bexley Book of the Year Award spent over 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 25...more
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My first novel, STILL ALICE, winner of the 2008 Bronte Prize, nominated for 2010 Indies Choice Debut Book of the Year by the American Booksellers Association, and winner of the 2011 Bexley Book of the Year Award spent over 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 25...more
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