I can’t offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. “ And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. I think I’ll wait until I can read reviews, because I don’t want to ‘ruin’ my good memories of this book with a bad movie! I haven’t seen the movie yet (it’s coming out tomorrow in the Netherlands) and I don’t know if I will. I started reading this book because there is a movie coming out and I wanted to read the book before I’d see the movie.
This book is difficult to put down once you start reading, since you go with Alice on her journey. But I also feel like this book will also be interesting if you don’t have any interest in Alzheimers. I feel like this book will give people insides to how Alzheimers work. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know any details. I didn’t really know anything about Alzheimers before reading this book. It was heartbreaking to read how Alice had to give up everything because of this disease and to see how the disease gets worse, until she does no longer recognise her husband or children. As the book progresses, the disease also progresses, which is noticeable in the writing. The different thing about this book is that you stay with Alices perspective, no matter how bad her Alzheimers becomes (because yes, she gets Alzheimers).
The book starts with “normal” Alice, you kind of get to know her and her family, like with almost every book. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life–and her relationship with her family and the world–forever. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children.
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build.
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