Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind...

Sending to Urfin as a RABCK. Enjoy!

Thank you!
Your book arrived yesterday and shortens my wishlist.
And looking out of my window here it seems to have brought with it a little cold air, so that the sticker snowman might get some real company this week :o)

I put it on my wishlist in 2010 but there is now also a film starring Julianne Moore.

The film posters reminded me of this book sitting on my shelf,
so when I finished another book yesterday, I immediately started this one.

Finished March 22nd.
Thank you so much for sending this book, lauraloo! It was a real good read, I'm glad, I have read it and at this time / stage of my life. I'm sure the story will stay with me and get me thinking for longer.
I already found someone to RABCK it to.

"...before she had children, before the experience of that primal and previously inconceivable kind of love that came with them..." (p.103)

In the interview (2nd last page) asked about her choice to write/tell the story from Alice's point of view, LG says "It should feel uncomfortably close at times." It sure does but for me it also was kind of comforting. The affected herself seems to somehow (more and more) peacefully give in and surrender to the loss of abilities. Just let them be the way they are and treat them with patience, like small children (for them, we have so much patience).
The final stages of the disease, of course, are not in this story, and they probably are a different story...

During lunch break I went to the Post Office and mailed the book to Jannike in Norway.

I received this book as a RABCK from Urfin - thank you very much for your generosity. I had read about the book and added it to my wishlist - and just a few days later Urfin contacted me and offered me the book. That made me feel very lucky.
Looking forward to reading this book!

This was in my opinion an outstanding book. Very well written about a difficult subject. A good read. I finished it in two days. It is easy to identify with Alice - this could happen to you or your friend or close family. You get to see the world from Alice's perspective. It is both sad and strangely enough also uplifting. I can highly recommend this book to its future readers!

Sluppet på BC-treff på La Baguette

OBS somehow I ended up bringing the book back home again. I am contemplating where to release it, it is such a good book that I would like it to find a reader who really appreciates it.

Left at the BC-meetup.

I have the book now. I have read it already, but want to ask a colleague if she wants to read it.

The book will be released at the book buffet in Athens.

Picked up from the book buffet tonight. I saw the movie recently, and wanted to read the book.

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Enjoyed the book just as much as the movie - perhaps more, in fact, because it goes more deeply into Alice's inner life.

Passing it on to Lytteltonwitch next, because she was interested to read it too.

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I am finally home and doing my journal entries on the books that I picked up at the Convention