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Apr 09, 2014 09:11PM

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Also Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist is a fantastic book, unputdownable and really gave me food for thought.
I was really impacted and inspired by Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues. Again, quite devastating in parts but such an incredible read.



As a woman also over 60, I feel the same way as you did. Unfortunately I watched a very young woman - not even 45 fall victim to Alzheimer and just last week took out a dear friend who has dementia. What I couldn't get over last week with my friend was that she remembered my birthday and where an old friend lived but kept asking for her pocketbook.
I found the ending of this book so poignant when she told her husband she was sorry she did this to him.


Since you enjoyed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, you might also enjoy reading The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard.


Thanks, Nancy. (Sorry I did not see this message until today.) I have marked it to read.




Marjorie Morningstar because at 14 I knew I would be her, and I cried.
1984 because I was afraid I would behave as Smith did at the end. Human or coward?

This story of life during the rough beginnings of science has haunted me for years.
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