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A review by heyitsmeg777
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 by Jennifer Haupt
5.0
This book is definitely a MUST READ!
It is a very timely anthology of people around the US depicting their experiences with the pandemic. For us, in this new era, the pandemic hit us all in many different ways. Some people were scared on how would they survive, how their families would continue standing, or even how to pay the bills. For older people, it was threat, a bigger one since many seniors were dying and many died because of the pandemic. Many people blamed old people for this pandemic and weren't kind to them, by blaming it on them and by prioritizing medical equipment for others. For kids, it was a time where they couldn't see their friends, school was now online and presented new challenges and precious events like graduations were all done virtually marking all the graduating classes this year as a unique one. Being from a graduating class myself, I spent a lot of time frustrated towards the pandemic, but this book served as a relief, because it allows you to immerse yourself in other people's shoes. It shows us to be kinder with others and ourselves. It helps others understand how we're all going through this pandemic. Together, and even if sometimes it doesn't feel this way... with this book, it allows us to be in the moment and to understand and learn of how others are doing. It is relatable because we are living through it, it is for a good cause because this book not only is helping a local charity, but this book will go down in history years after this pandemic ends...
Thank Netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this book
It is a very timely anthology of people around the US depicting their experiences with the pandemic. For us, in this new era, the pandemic hit us all in many different ways. Some people were scared on how would they survive, how their families would continue standing, or even how to pay the bills. For older people, it was threat, a bigger one since many seniors were dying and many died because of the pandemic. Many people blamed old people for this pandemic and weren't kind to them, by blaming it on them and by prioritizing medical equipment for others. For kids, it was a time where they couldn't see their friends, school was now online and presented new challenges and precious events like graduations were all done virtually marking all the graduating classes this year as a unique one. Being from a graduating class myself, I spent a lot of time frustrated towards the pandemic, but this book served as a relief, because it allows you to immerse yourself in other people's shoes. It shows us to be kinder with others and ourselves. It helps others understand how we're all going through this pandemic. Together, and even if sometimes it doesn't feel this way... with this book, it allows us to be in the moment and to understand and learn of how others are doing. It is relatable because we are living through it, it is for a good cause because this book not only is helping a local charity, but this book will go down in history years after this pandemic ends...
Thank Netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this book