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Lädt ... Goodbye, Vitamin (2017)von Rachel Khong
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A funny, quirky and oftimes poignant book about a young woman moving home to take of her dad with Alzheimer's.Chockablock with scenes and dialog, a light read treating a heavy, sad subject. ( ) I’m noticing a trend in contemporary books these days. Written in super short sections (sometimes no longer than a sentence or two), and told in a series of slice of life vignettes that add up to nothing really happening for hundreds of pages on end, these books are supposed to explore relationships and humanity but ultimately end up being tedious, pretentious, and impossible to get into. I know that sounds like I hated GOODBYE, VITAMIN, and I really didn’t. I thought it was an OK book that would have benefited greatly from an actual plot. Instead we’re given random observations and glimpses of a mundane life lived in a mundane way. And there’s never anything interesting about Mary Sue characters going about their boring little lives. There were a number of well-written, heartrending scenes. There were a few genuine chuckles, too. The problem was that these were all few and far between, and the bits in between were tedious and disjointed. All the random observations and the “did-you-know” conversations made little sense and had no purpose in the end. The book is written in a stream-of-consciousness, diary style, but I was puzzled by the anecdotes the author chose to put in, because no one I know would ever write a diary this way: filled with really boring and unnecessary observations. For example: “Once a man talking to a mail slot turned to me and told me he was an angel.” Or: “In a tabloid in the waiting room I read that Blake Lively’s mother, lacking blush, once licked an Advil and rubbed its pink on her cheeks.” Umm… what, now? There were some good things about this book, though. In particular, the snippets from the notebook Ruth’s dad kept of her childhood are often incredibly touching. But I wanted to know more about Ruth’s mom, who was at once maddening and endearing. I had so many questions about her and her choices when the book ended, none of which were answered. Overall, this is a decently written book, but there’s no plot or any sense of a real narrative flow. I find it interesting that this is sometimes categorized as humor, because that's not what I got out of the book at all. It was enjoyable and touching, but not really all that funny. Which is completely fine, I just went into this with completely false expectations. The topic of facing your parents' mortality, and particularly Alzheimer's is so scary to me. This book is snapshot of the decline of one man's memory, and how it affects the people around him, and not a full story taken to the bitter end. And I think I prefer it this way, because there's no ending happier than this when it comes to a disease like this. I think I'd like to read this again someday. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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""Incredibly poignant ... Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you -- just like life ... and heartbreak. And love."--Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year- old Ruth quits her job, and arrives home to find her parents' situation worse than she'd realized. Her father is erratically lucid and her mother, a devoted and creative cook, sees the sources of memory loss in every pot and pan. But as Howard's condition intensifies, the comedy in Ruth's situation takes hold, gently transforming her grief. She throws herself into caretaking: cooking dementia-fighting meals (a feast of jellyfish!), researching supplements, anything to reignite her father's once-notable memory. And when the university finally lets Howard go, Ruth and one of her father's handsome former students take their efforts to help Howard one step too far. Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding a one's footing in this life"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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