Book 12, 293 pages

[niblet81]

'Still Alice,' by Lisa Genova. Terrifying. Purely terrifying. Alice Howland, a world renowned professor of psychology and linguistics at Harvard, is diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s at age 50 after beginning to forget words, places, and people. This is a horrific journey to follow, as you are but a helpless observer. A shocking read that kept

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[meerkat77]

I guess I couldn´t read this book. (And honestly, I don´t often have the feeling that a book could be too much for me) Alzheimer´s is one of my biggest fears. Being in the situation of slowly loosing everything that used to be you and your life.... it´s (you just put it right) terrifying!

[meerkat77]

It wasn't something I had really worried about before, but I kept looking at girl while she slept and kept thinking it could happen to one of us and what we would do. I found myself looking up stars. Scary stuff.

[meerkat77]

Well, I´ve been confronted with dementia of several kinds. So the topic in general isn´t that far away from me and I often enough had those thoughts on my mind.

[_kissingchaos]

I loved this book. Even three months after finishing it I still think about it all the time. It did scare the crap out of me quite a bit, though. The interactions through the book between the family were amazingly well written.