Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life--and her relationship with her family and the world--forever.
At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease that is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as unforgettable as Judith Guest's Ordinary People. (via Goodreads)
This is one of the few adult books that I've read, so this is just a warning.
1. Beautiful writing
2. Harvard
3. It made me so sad (although, I did not cry at the book)
4. Julianne Moore stars in the movie. That just has to be here.
5. Forgetting how to lick ice cream (this one really stuck with me)
6. The checklist
7. Butterfly (this is almost the same thing as above, but it's so important that I'm repeating it)
8. The last scene with her youngest daughter
9. Passing it on to one of her children (is it a spoiler if I tell you which one?)
10. Her job, her life, her mind...
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