April Fool's Day
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"April Fools Day is controversial, painful and heartbreaking, yet has a gentle homour. It is also life-affirming, and, above all, it is a testimony to the incredible regenerative strength of love - how when we confront our worst, we can become our best. April Fools Day will change the way you think."
Journal Entry 2 by gingechick at Book Relay in Book Relay, A Book Relay -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, November 14, 2004
Released on Sunday, November 14, 2004 at about 6:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at mail in Fellow Bookcrosser, A Book Relay Controlled Releases.
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This book changed my life and how I lived it. It set me on the path to work with AIDS patients for the Victorian AIDS Council until I moved to QLD. I am looking forward to reading it again.
I am starting an Australian bookring for this book. If you are interested in joining, please PM me. So far:
SKingList - reading
Senna1
SKingList - reading
Senna1
Got this today from luckaye as a part of the bookring she started, and I cannot wait to read it.
Wow. That’s about what I have to say about this book. And I know I don’t normally wow and have wowed on three books in the last month, but this is a well-deserved wow.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s in the US, we knew the story of Ryan White, a hemophiliac (sorry, American spelling habits die hard) who also eventually contracted AIDS. His story put a human face on what was then called medically acquired AIDS/HIV and I remember my teacher talking about it when he died. And now Damon Courtenay, through his father Bryce, has added another human face to it, albeit this one with an Aussie accent.
I really liked the human aspects of this book, the sides that showed their normal life. Despite Damon’s hemophilia and later HIV/AIDS, Bryce made sure to still show that he was often a normal kid. He wanted the money, the car and the girl. And though he didn’t get the first two, his girlfriend Celeste was a wonderful person who you couldn’t help but love.
In addition to the human side, you saw the medical side, which wasn’t always pleasant. Hospital wards refusing to treat him and doctors who thought they knew everything. But you also saw the wonderful doctors and nurses who, though admitting they didn’t know much about this new disease, were willing to help Damon, Celeste, Bryce and Benita.
And of course the traveller in me loved that Damon got his trip to Europe before he died. Really makes me think of Tim McGraw's "Live Like you were Dying"
I went sky diving/I went Rocky Mountain climbing/I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named FuManchu/and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter/and I gave forgiveness I'd been denying/and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying./Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about/what'd you do with it what did you do with it
Wonderful book, excellently written, but oh so sad.
This one’s on to senna1 as soon as I get to the post office.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s in the US, we knew the story of Ryan White, a hemophiliac (sorry, American spelling habits die hard) who also eventually contracted AIDS. His story put a human face on what was then called medically acquired AIDS/HIV and I remember my teacher talking about it when he died. And now Damon Courtenay, through his father Bryce, has added another human face to it, albeit this one with an Aussie accent.
I really liked the human aspects of this book, the sides that showed their normal life. Despite Damon’s hemophilia and later HIV/AIDS, Bryce made sure to still show that he was often a normal kid. He wanted the money, the car and the girl. And though he didn’t get the first two, his girlfriend Celeste was a wonderful person who you couldn’t help but love.
In addition to the human side, you saw the medical side, which wasn’t always pleasant. Hospital wards refusing to treat him and doctors who thought they knew everything. But you also saw the wonderful doctors and nurses who, though admitting they didn’t know much about this new disease, were willing to help Damon, Celeste, Bryce and Benita.
And of course the traveller in me loved that Damon got his trip to Europe before he died. Really makes me think of Tim McGraw's "Live Like you were Dying"
I went sky diving/I went Rocky Mountain climbing/I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named FuManchu/and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter/and I gave forgiveness I'd been denying/and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying./Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about/what'd you do with it what did you do with it
Wonderful book, excellently written, but oh so sad.
This one’s on to senna1 as soon as I get to the post office.
Sending this one off to senna1 tomorrow.
Journal Entry 8 by senna1 from Parafield Gardens, South Australia Australia on Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Received yesterday. Can't wait to get into it. It will be my first Bryce Courtney. I've been wanting to try him for a long time.
