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4.0

This book is about the joy of reading books. Will Schwalbe's mother, Mary Anne Schwalbe, is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and together with his mom they start reading book forming an informal book club. At every chemo appointment they discuss the books they’re reading and they suggest new books to each other. Will also talks about his mother’s work as a humanitarian traveling around the world helping refugees and the impact she had on so many lives.

I read many reviews where people complained about how controlling the mom sounded, how Will never really talked in depth about his family and his relationship with his mom, or even how privileged they were to have all of that medical care but this book is really mainly focused on the book club they formed together.