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Still Alice

Lisa Genova

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. Week 3: Book Turned Into Movie

* Week 3: Introduction
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Sep 04, 2022 Dax rated it it was amazing

Shelves: tear-jerker, invisible-illnesses, fiction, trigger-warning, normalizing-mental-illnesses, realistic-fiction, neurodiversity, disability-rep, death-and-dying

Read this many years back and it was equal parts terrifying and familiar. Anyone who has a loved one going through Alzheimer's or any other memory related illness will find this to be a troubling but oh so necessary read. ...more

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Jun 11, 2017 Joy Gerbode rated it really liked it

Although this book is quite disturbing, I also found it a wonderful fountain of information on a disease that is so devastating. Well written, it draws you right into the family life, and made me laugh as well as cry, but also opened me eyes to new understanding not only of symptoms, but of feelings, of those troubled by this disease. Also ways to deal with it ... kind of wish I had read it before my folks walked the dementia path, but neither of my parents were nearly as bad as Alice. Well wort ...more

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Mar 22, 2015 Bgoofy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

What a heartbreaking book! It was so well written and so interesting to hear the story from the person with Alzheimer. It was especially hard for me to listen to this book since my family has been his by this horrible disease twice. I have also cared for people with it. I would recommend this book to a friend. Now I want to see the movie.

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