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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
Was a good book and interesting but sometimes felt a little repetitive and too much medical terms without explanation. A different read but takes a lot of thought
Main part is interesting. The author's ideas about the medical sector are typically dull journalist stuff that detract from the reading experience.
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inspiring
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Really engaging, I read it in about 4 days.
Very much a detective story for the first 3/4, the part about recovery was hard to read about how different it felt to not have her brain as her own.
Very much a detective story for the first 3/4, the part about recovery was hard to read about how different it felt to not have her brain as her own.
inspiring
fast-paced
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Absolutely loved this book much more than I expected to! I haven’t read a memoir since Educated and that fell very flat for me so to pick this up took the encouragement of “university requirement” for a book report in my STSE graduate class. I enjoy medical reads as well so that helped, given that I read The Brain That Changes Itself and some others, this focus on a rare autoimmune disease through the eyes of a survivor really made an impact on me as a reader.
Something I did not expect was that the author explicitly calls out her privileges and for that it earns 5 stars from me (yet another stark contrast to the privileges the author of Educated never admits) because she genuinely conveys concern for the people who don’t have access to the high quality care she did. It humbled her (plus she is an active advocate for the disease) and I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends or at the very least I feel that I have learned something that I can carry with me to educate others about.
Something I did not expect was that the author explicitly calls out her privileges and for that it earns 5 stars from me (yet another stark contrast to the privileges the author of Educated never admits) because she genuinely conveys concern for the people who don’t have access to the high quality care she did. It humbled her (plus she is an active advocate for the disease) and I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends or at the very least I feel that I have learned something that I can carry with me to educate others about.
I couldn’t get past page 30. Nothing to do with the writer or the writing. I just didn’t like the feelings this book gave me, and I don’t want to spend my time reading about the decline of someone’s life.