janethewriter 's review for:

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

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Although the book initially seemed a bit slow to me, I grew to love the author and his mother through the course of reading it. From the start, though, the MSKCC waiting rooms were familiar to me and I came to realize that I'd met Mary Anne's oncologist, Dr. O'Reilly, when she spoke about pancreatic cancer at a NYC FORCE meeting several years ago. For these reasons, as well as having lost my own mom to cancer shortly after the author lost his, I feel a connection to him. Of course, all the "book talk" was wonderful, and I've added several volumes from the book's list to my own to-read list.