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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
I've never read a book quite like this, a mystery told through a woman with Alzheimer's. Despite the challenges of the premise, LaPlante avoids gimmicks, and tells an intriguing story about friendship, family, and how memory works.
Good book. Scary though to read through the mind of someone with Alzheimer's or dementia and know that could be you or someone you know someday (or maybe you already knew someone like this). I'm looking forward to discussing this with my book club next week.
I don't think there's another book out there like this one. Alzheimer's books are all over the place, but Turn of Mind is fresh, original and shocking. So well-crafted. Wonderful.
I thoroughly enjoyed the narrative of this story. The main character, Dr. Jennifer White, who is in the depths of Alzheimer's creates an honest narrative. Each detail is important and clearly added with sensitivity to the story and its plotline. Very rarely do novels in the mystery genre genuinely surprise me, but this one did in many ways. Each character introduced has their own mix of positive and negative traits and when added with the disjointed narrative makes for a very interesting and intriguing read. I would highly recommend this for anyone who enjoys mysteries with a twist.
This book was good, but very hard to read. There weren't quotation marks and I lost track of who was talking or thinking or narrating. It was quite confusing most of the book, which I guess could be a demonstration of how difficult it is to live with dementia.
Very unique book - definitely dark and gloomy. It is described as a mystery but I didn't feel it was as much of a mystery as it was a character study.
I quite enjoyed this book - loved the unreliable mind of the main character. Gave a haunting account of the slip into dementia/Alzheimers.
Picked this from the NPR summer book list. It was quick read and enjoyable, nothing particularly special, but certainly kept me entertained as I hid my kindle in a file in court.
WOW!!! Where to begin...If this was just a book about loosing someone you love to dementia, I probably would have given it 4 stars. But there are so many layers to this book that is going to make it unforgetable(pardon the pun) I came away from this book with a greater respect for the people who have not lost their ability to remember those they love. Such a horrible disease for the person whose mind is taken away but in my opinion a worse disease for the ones left behind having to retell events take were painful the first time they were told and having to remind someone that they loved you. This would be a great book for caregivers to read to understand that the patient that just bit you isn't really even seeing you. This book shows the power of love and the mind ability to protect those we love.