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Here's the Bright Side: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps
by
Betty Rollin
Do clouds truly have silver linings? Betty Rollin answers with a resounding yes in this wise, moving, and funny book about the surprising upsides to life’s most challenging, painful, and seemingly insurmountable low blows. Rollin has been there. After being diagnosed with breast cancer more than thirty years ago–and again nine years later–she managed to find an astonishing...more
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Published
April 10th 2007
by Blackstone Audiobooks
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The illustrations are charming, but the "bright" side isn't very bright. It's downright gloomy at times. Didn't learn much, didn't get any unique insight, just the reassurance that shit happens to everybody. I've stopped halfway through simply because it seems more like something to reference and read passages when the poo hits the fan as opposed to treating it like a proper novel.
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Cliché stuff we've already heard a million times before.
The book was a little “light” in regard to cancer, but I don’t think that’s necessarily bad. When you’ve already been through it you don’t need to read the grueling details and relive it. You need to see a light at the end of the tunnel or the “bright side.” There were many good points to take from it. It was very positive and opened up a wider perspective.
15 - I heard an interview with this author on XM radio. The book sounded inspirational and a great thing to read if you were going through a hard time, but I was really disappointed with the book. I don't think it had enough content. It would have made a great magazine article (or radio interview) but not such a good book.
This book read more like a compilation of magazine articles. Cancer survivors may find some benefit from the author's experience with breast cancer. There was nothing particularly revelatory or inspirational in Rollin's prose.
A short read with interesting research about the good people take from the lows in life. Mind you - the good comes AFTER the lows have passed.
I was disappointed in this book. It did not have any real depth.
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Betty Rollin is a TV correspondent, an accomplished author and a captivating speaker. A former correspondent for NBC News, her special reports for Nightly News included a series on the Native Americans of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, which won both the duPont and Emmy awards. She now contributes reports for PBS' Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.
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