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Still Alice by Lisa Genova
5.0

This is the most frightening story I can imagine. It has consumed my days and permeated my dreams. After watching a horror movie, I worry about the dark alley, the opaque shower curtain, the creak in the middle of the night. This is much, much worse. While reading this book i have constantly wondered, checked and re-checked myself and my role in the world against the experience of Early Onset Alzheimer's experienced by Alice. My list-making, need to use "thing" instead of the precise noun I am trying to say, the swatches of memory that are blank. I know this isn't disease -- it is my always and ever -- but these are aspects of my mind that bother me, and if it were to disintegrate into something worse? Oh, the horror.