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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
I listened to the audio of Left on Tenth, read by the author Delia Ephron. It is the telling of her time dealing with leukemia, chemo, and all the ups and downs that go with it.
At the core of it is friendship, love, and the audacity to hang on to life through some of the toughest times. Delia has some amazing family, friends and community that buoyed her through this challenging period.
At the core of it is friendship, love, and the audacity to hang on to life through some of the toughest times. Delia has some amazing family, friends and community that buoyed her through this challenging period.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Death
I liked her conversational writing style. Her journey through AML was brutal yet she still had hope.
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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Flew through it, a lovely look at late in life romance and the importance of friendships and relationships in hard times
Author and screenwriter Delia Ephron has been through a lot. Both her sister (well known author Nora Ephron) and husband passed away from cancer and Delia is feeling unmoored from this world. Delia is a prolific author best known for writing You've Got Mail and Siracusa; to write about her feelings helps her cope and understand life's pain. When her sister passed away in 2012 from leukemia, she wrote a column about her sister's death titled "I am not my sister." This column garnered lots of attention and one email that Delia received was from Peter, a man she had dated over 54 years ago.
Surprisingly, at least to Delia, they begin a romance.
It's when Delia herself is diagnosed with the same leukemia that killed her sister that the illusion of a happy ever after, romcom type of romance is challenged. Delia details her struggles with leukemia and the brutal treatment that she chooses to undergo; all while her romance with Peter is still in the newlywed phase. The author does a remarkable job of balancing the exhilaration of new love, with the pain of loss and illness.
* I read an advance copy and was not compensated.
Surprisingly, at least to Delia, they begin a romance.
It's when Delia herself is diagnosed with the same leukemia that killed her sister that the illusion of a happy ever after, romcom type of romance is challenged. Delia details her struggles with leukemia and the brutal treatment that she chooses to undergo; all while her romance with Peter is still in the newlywed phase. The author does a remarkable job of balancing the exhilaration of new love, with the pain of loss and illness.
* I read an advance copy and was not compensated.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Memoir about death, NYC, widowhood, late in life live, cancer. I wanted it to be over 50pp earlier.
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent