Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness by Kathryn Schulz

3 reviews

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.25

What an incredibly moving and hopeful portrait of a life before and after a pivotal moment of loss. I love the connections Schulz made, the way she made them, and the particular way she juxtaposed what we have lost or may lose with what we have found or may find. Her writing is so beautiful and carried me along like a gentle current. I loved this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer

ashenlar's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I picked this up after reading the author's personal essay in The New Yorker (When Things Go Missing) and discovering that it was developed into this memoir. Beautiful and clever writing around the ideas of 'loss' and 'finding' illustrated with a range of narratives, from the deeply personal to the universe-spanning. 
Maybe not one for people who prefer tight/sparse writing; I enjoy both precise and more verbose writing - as long as it's done well - and I felt that every image, story and reference the author uses to develop the emotional threads are constructive to the overall themes that are centred around the loss of her father and the 'finding' of her partner, and well worth getting drawn into. Definitely would read again

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Terminal illness

purplepenning's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

A beautifully written, poignant memoir on loss, love, and the ampersand that is life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Medical content and Terminal illness