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This book is a novel about a 50 year old Harvard professor diganosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. It is yet another book where the star system is just failing me. I was going to give it four stars, but I just don't think it quite deserves that. This is where I would really appreciate being able to star by category. For artistic merit, I'd give it a 2, maybe a 1.5. The writing was unexciting and predictable, and that made the reading experience a little boring and dry at times. However,
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Though the writing was stilted and unappealing at first (maybe too strongly trying to showcase the author's own relationship to Harvard?), the story soon took over. I especially loved Alice's relationship with Lydia and how it showed the many ways we communicate and remember with emotion, something we often overlook in a culture fixated on language and rationality.
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