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Bezig met laden... Survival Lessons (2013)door Alice Hoffman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I really need to accept the fact that I almost never like self help books. ( ) This memoir is sad, of course. But it is filled with wisdom borne of experience. Recognizing the miraculous beauty in both the sublime and the details of the every day world. Hoffman advises those suffering through illness to move forward. Fulfill that bucket list, listen to music, nap in the middle of the day, read, write, socialize, help others, do, listen, live. Appreciate each moment. Smart and optimistic advice. Excellent read. Re-reading. I nor anybody I know is sick right now but I love the lessons given, Alice Hoffman style. "Life is beautiful, just very unfair." "I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't run away by ignoring the truth. Truth follows you; it comes in through open windows and drifts under doors." ------------------------------- Reading these lessons, written down by an author I love, encourages me to identify some of the tangible and not so tangible details of my life. I love when Alice Hoffman writes how the air smells or uses colors to describe the day. Or how she said watching a child run on the beach can be the most beautiful thing in the world. p.s. AH's cousin says there is an error on the knitting project: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/beehive-hat-for-survival-lessons scroll to the bottom. There is also a how-to video about the knitting project. FYI At the end of the audiobook there is a part that isn't in the physical book. Alice says something like, "this book may not be a memoir but it is the most personal book I have written". I got the book out of the library after listening to it on audiobook expecting to be able to re-read passages but that part isn't in the physical book. I'm not fond of the narrator voice. Without wishing to minimise Hoffman's personal experience or her own ways of coping with illness...I didn't get much out of this book. There is some lovely writing, and a few insights that resonated with me: I would also want to invite Emily Dickinson, even though it is said that at some point she only spoke to callers through her bedroom door. That makes me love her all the more because I often feel exactly the same and want to hide away. The truth is, some of your closest friends may disappear during your most difficult times. These people have their own history and traumas; they may not be able to deal with yours. They may belong to the before. But the bulk of the book was things that have been said before, many times, and advice that is at best privileged, at worst slightly dodgy (if you have a potentially fatal illness, acquire a puppy?) Erelijsten
Biography & Autobiography.
Health & Fitness.
New Age.
Nonfiction.
HTML: The bestselling author and cancer survivor delivers "an optimistic instruction manual . . . [for] anyone struggling with self-care in a time of trouble" (Story Circle Book Reviews). Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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