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3.65. Quick read. Painfully accurate description of chemo and bone marrow transplant. I kept thinking how fortunate Ephron is to have the financial resources she does.
This book was very difficult for me to read. The descriptions of Delia’s struggle with her cancer treatments were brutal. You felt like you were going through it with her. What an emotional roller coaster! This book is also uplifting and encouraging, sharing the love wins message.
This memoir is a fast read, mainly because the reader becomes immersed in her story. It’s told simply, directly, and with a certain urgency - as though you’re having an intense conversation with a friend, but you both have to be somewhere else soon. It can be choppy at times, with lots of short sentences, but it’s a story worth telling.
She writes about the sorrow she felt after her husband Jerry dies, and then the amazing feeling of falling in love again. With her new husband, Peter, she recaptures all the romance she experienced in her youth, even though they’re both in their seventies. And then she gets leukemia, the same disease that felled her sister, Nora Ephron.
The following chapters are all about her experience with the disease, coming close to death several times, dealing with her own fears and denial, and eventually being miraculously cured by a stem cell transplant. This is not a spoiler, since you know she had to live, in order to write this book!
She writes about the sorrow she felt after her husband Jerry dies, and then the amazing feeling of falling in love again. With her new husband, Peter, she recaptures all the romance she experienced in her youth, even though they’re both in their seventies. And then she gets leukemia, the same disease that felled her sister, Nora Ephron.
The following chapters are all about her experience with the disease, coming close to death several times, dealing with her own fears and denial, and eventually being miraculously cured by a stem cell transplant. This is not a spoiler, since you know she had to live, in order to write this book!
While at times difficult to read for the medically squeamish, this a book about love, friendship, community and miracles. Deeply satisfying.
This was good, but different than I expected. I enjoyed hearing about her late & current husbands plus her wonderful friends/family, but didn't realize so much of the book would focus on her illness, treatment, etc. which was difficult and harrowing to read at times.
I am becoming obsessed with memoirs from Audible. I had seen Delia Ephron interviewed on one of the Sunday shows. She had lost her husband of many years to cancer, fell madly and unexpectedly in love with a man that she had dated in college and then was diagnosed with the same leukemia that had killed her sister Nora.
Delia is funny and neurotic, honest and full of life. Her story of love and loss - and fighting the disease that took her sister, is riveting. I really enjoyed listening to her story. Now I want to read her fiction.
Delia is funny and neurotic, honest and full of life. Her story of love and loss - and fighting the disease that took her sister, is riveting. I really enjoyed listening to her story. Now I want to read her fiction.
Extremely personal journal of Ms Ephron’s late life love and leukemia. It felt somewhat a little too intimate as it contains emails and texts over several years — starting with her husband’s death then finding new love in her 70’s, then a diagnosis similar to sister Nora. Uplifting in that she was well enough to complete this book, but kinda repetitive after a bit.