Steve
Answered a promptWhat are your favorite summer reads?
Answered a promptWhat are your favorite standalone Sci-Fi novels?
Answered a promptWhat book are you still thinking about?
As someone who has people in their life who are reaching this stage (who doesn't?), this book annoyed me. There are other reviews that touch on the things that got to me (e.g., the book is more about her insights and story than her patients'; it needs an editor with a heavier hand).
In the end, I think what gets me the most is that this is presented as non-fiction. These interludes read like parables to me. They're too tidy. Her patients too eloquent. There's parallel structure across iterations of what is inevitably a very tumultuous and messy process. It doesn't ring right to me, but that's just my opinion.
At a 30,000 foot level, these topics ("regrets") are worth thinking about. Live now. Do not wait. If this book was comprised of 80% of the patients' insights and 20% of the author's empathy and contextualizing, that would have been about right, but I'm afraid the ratio is flipped here.
As someone who has people in their life who are reaching this stage (who doesn't?), this book annoyed me. There are other reviews that touch on the things that got to me (e.g., the book is more about her insights and story than her patients'; it needs an editor with a heavier hand).
In the end, I think what gets me the most is that this is presented as non-fiction. These interludes read like parables to me. They're too tidy. Her patients too eloquent. There's parallel structure across iterations of what is inevitably a very tumultuous and messy process. It doesn't ring right to me, but that's just my opinion.
At a 30,000 foot level, these topics ("regrets") are worth thinking about. Live now. Do not wait. If this book was comprised of 80% of the patients' insights and 20% of the author's empathy and contextualizing, that would have been about right, but I'm afraid the ratio is flipped here.
