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Julie Yip-Williams
3.99 AVERAGE
240 reviews for:
Do ostatnich dni. Zapis życia, choroby i wszystkiego, co przychodzi później
Julie Yip-Williams
3.99 AVERAGE
I'm not sure I've read a more sad book in the last 5 years. Julie speaks eloquently and from the heart. She thinks, always, of her children. She is grateful and reflective and has much to say. It isn't a pitiful book. She presents as very strong and capable, well-intentioned and kind.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Hard to read for me, but more because of my mom than of the book. Very well written and beautiful prose.
Broke my heart and mended it all over again. A somewhat more disjointed memoir, understandable as it is partly made up of the original blog posts, and a good balance between looking back at the past and future.
I appreciated and cried for Julie, thanked her for her pure honesty in how she tackled life and death.
I appreciated and cried for Julie, thanked her for her pure honesty in how she tackled life and death.
This book. Whew. It just gutted me.
I've been trying to figure out why I'm so into memoirs about death and dying, and I think with this book, I finally figured it out. Julie Yip-Williams holds nothing back. As a child, she almost died when her grandmother told her parents that she would be better off dead due to the cataracts in her eyes. But she survived a boat from Vietnam to America, got the help she needed, and got some sight back. She became a lawyer, got married, and had two amazing little girls. She's brave and smart and completely authentic with her journey through Stage IV cancer, and she confronts death as I imagine any of us would - wavering, not wanting to go, and yet also walking into it with open eyes. I realized, as I cried through the end of the book, that people like Julie and Nina Riggs (THE BRIGHT HOUR) and Paul Kalanithi (WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR) are the ones giving us the best of themselves. By sharing their stories, they are helping all of us deal with what we will all one day go through. Julie writes about the unwinding of the miracle - about how she brought her babies into the world, and the miracle began on those days. And death, the end of the miracle, is just as important for us to honor as a transition into a new and unexplained world.
I've been trying to figure out why I'm so into memoirs about death and dying, and I think with this book, I finally figured it out. Julie Yip-Williams holds nothing back. As a child, she almost died when her grandmother told her parents that she would be better off dead due to the cataracts in her eyes. But she survived a boat from Vietnam to America, got the help she needed, and got some sight back. She became a lawyer, got married, and had two amazing little girls. She's brave and smart and completely authentic with her journey through Stage IV cancer, and she confronts death as I imagine any of us would - wavering, not wanting to go, and yet also walking into it with open eyes. I realized, as I cried through the end of the book, that people like Julie and Nina Riggs (THE BRIGHT HOUR) and Paul Kalanithi (WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR) are the ones giving us the best of themselves. By sharing their stories, they are helping all of us deal with what we will all one day go through. Julie writes about the unwinding of the miracle - about how she brought her babies into the world, and the miracle began on those days. And death, the end of the miracle, is just as important for us to honor as a transition into a new and unexplained world.
Wow. Yip-Williams is a beautiful writer who is so smart, reflects deeply, and who candidly shares the many heartbreaking aspects of facing her own imminent death from metastatic colorectal cancer. This account serves as her powerful farewell to her family but also holds meaning for anyone considering the way they live and how they might choose to face their own mortality.
The details of Yip-Williams’s childhood and the obstacles she overcame to simply be alive as an adult to face this terrible reality are incredible. But she is truly amazing in the way she honestly recounts her fury and panic, the excruciating treatments and effects, her exhaustive search for new life-extending options, and her reckoning with the realization that at some point desperate hope for survival must transform somehow into an effort for grace in dying and making plans for leaving loved ones behind. ❤️
The details of Yip-Williams’s childhood and the obstacles she overcame to simply be alive as an adult to face this terrible reality are incredible. But she is truly amazing in the way she honestly recounts her fury and panic, the excruciating treatments and effects, her exhaustive search for new life-extending options, and her reckoning with the realization that at some point desperate hope for survival must transform somehow into an effort for grace in dying and making plans for leaving loved ones behind. ❤️
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
an incredibly insightful, hauntingly beautiful book is so many ways. It evoked so many emotions and made me really think about my practice as a radiotherapy student. Thank you Julie for sharing your story, helping us learn and teaching us.
Alongside the podcast, I can't describe how honest and brilliant the book and podcast combination was.
Thank you.
Alongside the podcast, I can't describe how honest and brilliant the book and podcast combination was.
Thank you.
I really wanted to like this, as I have liked many other books in the genre (especially The Bright Hour) and I really love some of Julie's writing. But time, this just felt like a series of blog posts strung together and bound as a book. If that's what I was looking to read, it would have been entirely satisfying. Honestly, given the specifics of her illness, I can't imagine how she could have had the energy and time to edit things into a novel format so seems totally understandable, just not what I was looking for.
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer
Moderate: Death
Julie was a strong woman.. She boldly fought the pain and suffering caused by her cancer while patiently waiting for her death.. She saw through it all until her last minute.. This book is very inspiring especially to those who courageously fight their battle with cancer..
“take an ugly tragedy and transform it into a source of beauty, love, strength, courage, and wisdom.”
Excerpt From
The Unwinding of the Miracle, A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams
“take an ugly tragedy and transform it into a source of beauty, love, strength, courage, and wisdom.”
Excerpt From
The Unwinding of the Miracle, A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams