This book blew me away – tears one minute, laughter the next (really!) but mostly honest all the way through. It really is the inside look into how Alzheimer’s wrecks lives, but it also has a pretty unexpected ending because the author talks about going on and finding a new love. Some people may not [...]
Working as a student researcher at CalTech, Stacey O’Brien brought a four-day-old owlet home from the lab and named him Wesley. For the next nineteen years, he would be her constant companion and beloved friend. This is a beautiful memoir about the relationship that O’Brien and Wesley developed. O’Brien writes not only as Wesley’s besotted [...]
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” is one of the most interesting, powerful books I’ve read in a long time. Audrey Niffenegger did a beautiful job taking some of the most complex ideas – time travel, marriage, love, children, friends, literary and artistic allusions, religion, death, drugs, childhood, growing, loss, and what it means to be human [...]