Still Alice by Lisa Genova
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
i am glad i gave this book a second chance. i unfortunately watched the movie first few months back and decided then that since i didnt enjoy the movie, i wouldnt enjoy the book. true they say, don’t judge a book by its movie.
reading Still Alice actually gives me a genuine curiousity to understand what a person with Alzheimer’s disease is going through. unlike the movie, i could finally understand better what is going on in Alice’s mind and feel her emotions, her frustration, her anxiety of having to face this illness alone, after all, she is an intelligent professor!
i appreciated that Still Alice go through the stages or phases of memory lapse and gradually succumbing to the wills of the disease. it did make me feel this disease is more scary than cancer, because it is true, losing your memory, not recognising the people around you, losing language, it is as good as a blank walking person, seeing hearing speaking but not truly comprehending
perhaps i could now have an interest to read other Lisa Genova’s novels.
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