Book #88 |
Book: What Does It Feel Like? | Author: Sophie Kinsella | |
| Source: Library loan Format: e-book |
Pages: 128 | Duration: 09/24/25 – 09/24/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, novella, family, cancer | ||
| 📕10-word summary: A woman’s experience through a glioblastoma diagnosis and its prognosis. 🖌6-word review: Compelling, sometimes even humorous, honest observations. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “It doesn’t matter if anyone knows the answer, it can be good to ask the question anyway.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: pratfall, clambered | |||
| Description:* Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again—and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children—she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it. Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I chose this book without knowing what it was about, which in retrospect, is probably a good thing. I probably wouldn’t have read it had I known, but it was a good read. This work is a fictionalized autobiography in which the narrator prevails as both positive and even humorous at times. As rare as glioblastoma is, I’ve known 3 people in my life with it — one a relative and 2 acquaintances. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
