Still Alice

By Lisa Genova

A moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major film starring Academy Award winner Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart.

Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever.

Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Release date: Dec 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781471149108

Lisa Genova

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Remember. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide speaking about the neurological diseases she writes about and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, PBS NewsHour, CNN, and NPR. Her TED talk, What You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's, has been viewed over 2 million times.  

Reviews for Still Alice

[rdra1962 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Although this book brought out my hypochondria (yes, I forget words/names/appointments....) I found the writing a bit tiresome and the narrative really predictable.

[carlathelibrarian · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

You hear jokes all the time about having "oldtimers" because people lose things, forget why they went into a room or miss an appointment, but imagine if that was your whole life. Alzheimer's is no joking matter. This book tugged at my heartstrings, and left me emotionally exhausted. It is a book that I picked up many times to read, then put down because I wasn't sure I wanted to know what it was like to have Early Onset Alzheimer Disease, but I finally read the whole thing.

Alice Howland was diagnosed with EOAD at the age of 50. She is married to a Biology professor wo researches cancer and has three grown children that she loves. She was a brilliant professor at Harvard who spoke around the world. She was one of the highest rated professors by her students. She participated in research projects, wrote grant applications and mentored Doctoral Candidates, in other words, she was an extremely mentally active person and rumour has it that helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's. Not if you have the genetic form apparently. This story is told from Alice's prosepective as she journeys down the road as an Alzheimer's patient. She gradually loses her life including her job, her love of running and the ability to read, speak and recognize simple things especially her family. This story was heartwrenching, yet frightening. To read about her quick decline, yet also the see the lengths she goes through to live as normal a life as she can while she still has part of "her self" is hard, but should be read by everyone to see what could happen to anyone we love or even ourselves. A great read. Now I think I will finally break down and watch the movie.

[heatherlinc · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a heart-wrenching, poignant story of one woman's struggle with the early onset of Alzheimer's disease. Told in the third person, the story focuses on Alice's point of view as she tries to come to terms with the diagnosis and her rapid loss of cognitive skills. It is impossible not to feel deep, sincere sympathy for Alice. She is such a wonderful character - courageous, intelligent, warm-hearted and, at all times, dignified. The speech she gives at the Dementia Care Conference had me in tears. Beautifully written, Alice's journey is a hard one to follow as she grapples with feelings of confusion, fear, anger, hopelessness and frustration, but I'm so very glad I travelled with her even though in the end, it was hard to let her go.

[lisamorr · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Told from Alice's point of view, we learn about her symptoms leading up to a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This is a tragic diagnosis for anyone, and for a linguistics professor at Harvard, not being able to find the right words, or eventually even to read, is brutal. We see what happens to Alice over two years, and learn what a devastating disease this is.

[howifeelaboutbooks · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old Harvard professor who is starting to forget things. She chalks it up to being really busy, swamped with giving lectures and traveling to conferences. The memory infractions keep getting more bothersome, so Alice's doctor puts her through various tests before diagnosing her with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This, of course, throws Alice's life off course and turns everything upside down. I absolutely love that, despite becoming more and more unreliable, Alice is the first person narrator throughout the whole story. It's so interesting to be inside her head as her brain deteriorates. My maternal grandmother had Alzheimer's and hallucinated towards the end of her life, and I wanted so badly to know exactly what was going through her mind. Since she has a PhD in neuroscience herself, and did extensive research on Alzheimer's, I feel like Genova's book is the closest I will come to understanding what went on in my grandmother's mind.

[beth.clarke · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The main character has early onset Alzheimer's. I don't know much about the disease, but I found this book to be very interesting. If it's accurate, it gives good insight to what a person goes through as well as the family.

A movie about Alz, Away from Her, was amazing. It seemed to be a much better view of the disease. I found it leaving a more lasting impression of alzheimer's --the actor's performances were moving.

[linda.a. · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I found this story profoundly sad, disturbing and thought-provoking when I read it soon after it was first published. When I was faced with reading it for a second time (as a reading group choice) I wondered whether it would have less of an emotional impact. However, I felt as inexorably drawn into the author’s descriptions of how the diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease affected not only Alice, but also her husband, John, and their three adult children. The effects on their lives were profound and disturbing for each of them. I thought that she charted, in a very sensitive and moving way, the gradual disintegration of Alice’s ability to do anything for herself, as well as her continuing demand to be seen for who she had been, not just who she was becoming. She realistically and evocatively captured the ways in which each member of the family developed different, and changing, coping strategies as they struggled to deal both with new realities, and an uncertain future. Everyone hoped for a miracle cure but, as there wasn’t one, they could only watch as the disease unrelentingly destroyed every aspect of Alice’s life, from her memories, to her ability to do anything for herself. There were moments when her descriptions of Alice’s continuing awareness of what was happening to her were so evocative that they felt almost too painful to read: I could almost viscerally feel her frustrations and her fear.There were times when I felt angry with John’s apparent detachment, his constant search for alternative diagnoses or treatments and, finally, with a decision he makes when Alice’s hold on reality has deteriorated considerably. However, the author did such a good job of portraying his point of view, and his need to look forward, that I ended up feeling some empathy with him!Any form of dementia is something no individual or family wants to think about, but when it strikes someone in their fifties the shock must be greater, particularly as this form of the disease has such a strong genetic component, with a fifty percent chance that any children may go on to develop it. I thought that the author dealt well, and very credibly, with the dilemma of whether or not people would choose to take advantage of genetic testing. It seems to me that, whatever the decision, it must be very difficult to either live the rest of your life knowing that you have inherited that gene, or to go through life wondering. Not all forgetful moments are a precursor to dementia, but if there is that history in your family, I can only begin to imagine how stressful such moments must be. This is not an easy story to read but I think that Lisa Genova’s well-informed, compassionate writing has created characters who are unforgettable (if that isn’t too ironic) and through them has conveyed a powerful message that we should continue to “see” the essence of who sufferers are, rather than, through ignorance and fear, ignore them. I’m sure we all ask the question “what if ….? and I think this book goes some way to addressing some of the answers.

[mhanover10 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

When I read this book it really stayed with me and now to see it's going to be a movie with Julianne Moore, I can't wait to see it. She will be wonderful in it. It is a very hard story to read and will break your heart.

[varwenea · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

“I miss myself.”Dr. Alice Howland is a 50-year-old psychology professor at Harvard with a specialty in linguistics. Her decline started with forgetting words, getting lost while jogging on a regular route, forgetting appointments, and even a trip. After her diagnosis, her relationship with herself, her husband, and her three children evolved. She finds tools to compensate her declining memory. Her husband who had loved her for her mind struggles to know the new her and to learn and fight this disease that is stealing her away. Her children, who may inherit the mutation gene, must decide what to do for themselves as well as how to be a bigger part of Alice’s life especially while she still knows them. ‘Still Alice’ delivers quite a punch. The idea of having early on-set Alzheimer is incredibly scary. Being an EON patient, the progression of the disease is faster than a typical elderly. Furthermore, because the main character is highly intelligent and a high-functioning individual, it’s possible her Alzheimer’s started sooner but she’s been able to compensate, making the progression appear to be even more extraordinary. The depictions of her decline, the gaps, the repeats, the mistakes, the moments of lucidity, are absolutely heart-breaking. The brilliance of Genova’s writing is its sparseness. She doesn’t outright point out Alice’s mistakes. She lets the readers come to the realization that an “episode” had occurred. In the last months, when her family members are described instead of using their names, the words read like a gut-wrenching blow when I realized she longer knows who they are. Damn…Quote:On the loss of language:“But to tell the truth, she was very far from okay. She could still read and comprehend small amounts of text, but the computer keyboard had become an undecipherable jumble of letters. In truth, she’d lost the ability to compose words out of the alphabet letters on the keys. Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She’d said a tearful good-bye to okay some time ago.”

[firewild · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I liked this book more than I thought I would. The beginning was a bit too plain, unrealistic (Articles published only in Nature and Science?), however, the more Alice's illness progressed the more human the story became. You could tell the author did her research, both in terms of science and human emotions.

[pamv-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book was told from the patients perspective. Throughout the story you feel and experience the frustration and the heartache of losing the word of an item that you are holding in yourhand or the face of one of your children. The author did plenty of research and while this book is fiction it seems to be what some Alzheimer's patients experience. They KNOW when they have forgotten, they KNOW when they can't find there way down their own hallway. The minnd just won't let retreive the much desired information.

I am definitely going to look at Alzheimer's sufferer's in a different way, now.

[bdartnall_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Moving but sad story - written in beautiful prose, story of 50 something Alice Howland, esteemed Harvard professor of linguistics, wife of scientist husband John, mother of three grown children, soon to be grandma... is diagnosised with early onset Alzheimer's disease. "Of all the people who have Alzheimer's disease, about 5 percent develop symptoms before age 65." Alice knows this but, at first-like anyone in her age bracket and superior intelligence, ambition, etc, she guesses it merely may be the side effects of menopause, overwork or stress. Compelling because we experience the entire story through Alice's point of view, not in third person narrative - a challenge to do this well as Alice moves from full cognition, to hiccups of memory lapses to obvious, growing Alzheimer's "fog." Has a readers guide for book groups at end, and interesting interview with author.

[tinkerbellkk · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An incredible book detailing the struggles of the main character as she declines with Alzheimer's Disease. Thought provoking and very in depth, I found this book to be a profound look at such a terrible disease. It shows how so many people around the patient are affected and how the person truly feels as they slip away. Heartwrenching and beautifully written.

[calavari · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Still Alice is a great book. I've heard Alzheimer's disease described before and had a grandmother who suffered from dementia in her 90's, but sometimes there's nothing quite like a novel to help me understand what something is like. Its the beauty of books and the concept of "living a thousand lives", right?

The story is told from the third person perspective but focuses on Alice herself, rarely diverting from her dilemmas. I thought the choice of making her a Harvard professor helped to show that there is no amount of intelligence or education that can make you resistant to diseases such as this.

The responses of her family were probably best case scenario, though. They weren't perfect, but I'd call them pretty damn close to it, down to the lovely birthday presents they gave her and their willingness to help. The only one that got on my nerves was her husband occasionally, but I get his concern and why his reaction is different than that of their children. I adored the children.

The plot progresses with the disease and the many steps that one with dementia will go through. It starts with signs and we get to be with Alice through diagnosis and telling those in her life at her pace what's going on. We get to experience all the little ways she deals with forgetting things and into the days that make Alzheimer's sufferers look and sound crazy to those not in their minds.

[sbenne3 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A very poignant novel that was very difficult to read for so many reasons. I really appreciated the look at this disease through the point of view of the person living with it. It really helped me appreciate how that person feels and looks at the world through an ever changing lens. Certainly worth a read, but hard if this impacts you personally in any way.

[vivienner_3 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It is understandable how this novel became a bestseller. The story of Alice, a Harvard professor who suffers from early onset Alzheimer's is a riveting one, making the reader think "this could be me”. Unfortunately the quality of the writing does not correspond with the compelling topic, I found it lumbering, pedestrian, and in places unnecessarily technical. My version was an audiobook significantly marred by the author's wooden, monotone narration. I do, however, have every sympathy with anyone suffering with this terrifying diagnosis.

[glorybe1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read this on the recommendation of my sister and have to say it has to be the best book I have read this year. It is heartbreaking with a tiny touch of humour to it, if that is possible!The book is about Alice and her not so slow downfall into early on-set Alzheimer's at the age of 50. Alice is a very well respected professor of linguistics at Harvard university, traveling all over the globe giving lectures, and her opinion is listened to with respect. She feels it all happening in her head and can't do a thing about it.The author Lisa Genova captures the progressive descent beautifully, with sympathy and empathy and manages to get a touch of humour in it from time to time. The way she writes, repeating sentences often and with little asides brings it home to you how awful this disease is.It is heartbreaking to read and I have to admit to a little tear after Alice gives her talk to the world renown experts in the disease.You just have to read this book, yes, it is sad but so well written, and does have it's heartwarming bits too.

[judiex · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Parents often keep records of their children when they experience firsts: First time their eyes track them. First smile. First time to tun over. First time eating solid food. First tooth. First word. First step. STILL ALICE records the firsts of an adult, Dr. Alice Howland, tenured cognitive psychology professor at Harvard University. Her firsts, however, are a reversal of the baby books. When she was fifty years old, Alice was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. She recognized that she had a problem when she had difficulty remembering words and when she got lost a few blocks from her home as she followed a familiar route. At first, she didn’t share the information with anyone, including her husband and children. But her doctor insisted that she bring her husband or another person to her appointments. As she was coping with the diagnosis from one perspective, her husband had difficulty accepting it and then focused on trying to cure it, an impossible task. Their relationship, once very close, had changed as he spent more and more time with his medical work. She notices his twisting his wedding ring around a lot, often a sign of uncertainty in the marriage.Her children, all adults, reacted to the diagnosis in various ways, all positive and supportive, especially when they learned that her illness was hereditary. Her older daughter and her husband were trying to conceive a baby at the time. While she didn’t let anyone at work know about her illness, she cut back on some of her professional activities until that was no longer possible.The book is not maudlin but shows the progression of the disease through Alice’s eyes. At first, she says, “She wished she had cancer instead....With cancer, she’d have something that she could fight....There was a chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if defeated in the end, she’d be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.” She realized that people associated Alzheimer’s with mental illness and tended to avoid people with the disease. One of the thoughts that comforted her when she got the diagnosis was a comment her mother had made decades earlier. “Her mother told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn’t mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, See, they have a beautiful life.”While STILL ALICE is a novel, the situations are real. Lisa Genova provides resources for additional information for people living with Alzheimer’s and those close to them. One important point is that the person can often understand what is being said but cannot form the words to respond. As a volunteer guardian, I have had many wards who had dementia. One of them taught me to look at the world through her eyes, not my own. She didn’t know what world she lived in, but she loved it. She was one of the happiest people I even knew.The book is well written and a good resource for getting a better understanding of Alzheimer’s. There is some repetition, but it usually reflects what is going on in Alice’s mind.

[larryerick · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I started out really not liking this book. I used to work with a man whose wife wrote superficial romance novels set in cities that they had visited on vacation. The first half of this book was very much like that. Name dropping on local locations. Cranky characters. Misplaced emotions. Why was I still reading this? Just because it dealt with alzheimer's? Then the splendor of the writing just burst forth. Almost like hiking through a damp dark cave and then coming upon a glittering pirate's treasure, the author starting writing the most beautiful, efficient, poignant scene, capturing the first clear descent of an accomplished woman into a stunning disease. From that point, the author pretty much maintained the effort. Frankly, as other reviewers have commented, I did not like the main character. And perhaps the reason that changed as the book progressed is because what was important to the main character changed. If I still have some negatives with this book, it is because I wish it had done more to follow the inside of the peripheral characters reaction to the disease. The reader does get some sense of the difference between certain members of the family, but it doesn't really give enough detail to satisfy me. I mean is this book intended for those who will get alzheimer's or for those who may have to live with its collateral damage? I believe the author had it in her knowledge base and within her skills to handle both.

[reemsf-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Lisa Genova's depiction the life of a woman diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's is a heart-wrenching view of what it might be like for someone who is slowly losing the meaning of self.Following Dr. Alice Howland through the period of her life when she was diagnosed with Alzheimers. Simple things that we brush off as stress, exhaustion and other everyday facts of life were, unbeknownst to Alice and her family, symptoms of her falling into the depths of dementia.She realizes something is wrong when she begins to feel panic in situations that are normally rather comforting or normal. She forgets where she is when running even though she identifies the sites that are around her. She forgets words while speaking to an audience, the speech has been given before, the words are more than familiar and yet, somehow, this one time, they just escape her.Her family has a difficult time accepting all of the changes that come with caring for someone with Alzheimer's. Job changes, grandchildren, walks in the park, theater excursions are all being experienced in a new light. Dr. Howland seems to be watching as things change around her and she is powerless to do anything about it. She wants to say things but the words don't come. Even when they do, who really takes the time to listen.It scares me to think of how a person can be locked within her own mind. I know people who've had Alzheimer's and I wonder if this is really what they went through.Such a wonderful read!

[pennydart · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Lisa Genova, the author of “Still Alice,” has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and works as a columnist for the National Alzheimer’s Association. Her novel tells the story of a 50-year-old Harvard psychology professor, with a happy marriage and three grown, successful children, who is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease and over the course of two years experiences serious cognitive decline. Genova made the bold decision to tell the story from Alice perspective, and while the novel is not entirely successful—in places the writing is more clinical than literary, and there are certainly moments of melodrama—overall, it’s a moving and very sad book.

[nancynova · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Heartbreaking. Alice, a Harvard linguistics professor develops early onset Alzheimers. The story is from her point of view & the frustration & scariness of losing part of herself and what she does to compensate - or so she thinks. Hubby is overwhelmed, refuses help & isn't very helpful. Her kids rally around, allowing her to stay in Cambridge. What a frightening disease.

[marsap_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Alice Howland is a happily married 50+year old cognitive psychology professor (a renowned linguistics expert) at Harvard with three grown children at the height of her career. She begins to notice forgetfulness creeping into her life. Things that were once familiar (her class lectures become a struggle and she begins to lose her sense of direction) become confusing and lost. As her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. The disease takes hold swiftly, and it changes Alice’s relationship with her family and the world. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. This novel is incredibly heartbreaking and tragic as you begin to realize how much Alice has lost—her professional identity, the recognition of her family and eventually her ability to speak. This novel is very well down as it takes you into Alice’s experience of her losses and her family’s reactions to the changes. 4 out of 5 stars.

[lisa875 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent.

[janesteen_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Where I got the book: purchased from Amazon. A Sunday Afternoon in the Park book club read.Alice is a fifty-year-old Harvard professor whose life is pretty good. She worries a bit about having grown apart from her husband John, but hopes they can rekindle their relationship now the kids are flown. It bothers her a great deal that her youngest daughter, Lydia, has chosen a career in acting rather than go to college and beyond like her older children. And so on. Basically the life of any middle-aged woman with a successful career; travel, meetings, family, busy busy.And then on her daily run, Alice can't remember which way to go to return home. Putting her memory lapses down to menopause, she doesn't worry too much at first, but they begin to impact her professional life and she sees a neurologist. The verdict: early-onset Alzheimer's. And thus begins a rapid progression into full-blown dementia, seen almost exclusively from Alice's viewpoint as she tries to cling to the professional and private life she considers she's earned.I hesitated to read this book since Alzheimer's is very close to home for me, and I thought I'd be reduced to floods of tears by page 50. But the writing is so entirely unsentimental that instead I found myself caught up in the fascinating portrayal of a disease of the mind seen from within, and an analysis of the reactions of Alice's family. Alice is not entirely likable; she's a touch arrogant about her intellectual superiority at the beginning, and indeed the whole family, with the exception of Lydia, seem a little distant from one another, successful people caught up in the glamor of their own success. As Alice's dementia progresses, I found myself wondering if the state of denial in which John and the two older children exist (one, the daughter Anna, changes as the novel unfolds) contributes towards Alice's unreasonable refusal to inform her university about her disease, or whether it is purely a matter of Alice holding on to the self she has built up like a woman clinging to the edge of a cliff. Why doesn't John take steps to let Alice's colleagues know what's happening? Why on earth doesn't he hire someone to run with her instead of making her wait till he's available?Perhaps it's a matter of reaping what you sow. By being so self-sufficient in her life--and Alice is alone, having lost her father to alcoholism and her mother and sister in a long-ago car accident, so the self-sufficiency is understandable--Alice has, perhaps, helped create a family culture which values achievement so much that the other family members simply have no coping mechanisms for what's happening to her. Except for Lydia, who seems instinctively to understand what her mother needs in terms of emotional and practical support right from the beginning. A touch of anti-intellectualism on the part of the author? It is certainly interesting that as Alice loses her intellect, she becomes more empathetic and more in tune with the body language and feelings of others.If anything, this novel loses a star because of the sense of detachment I simultaneously appreciated for allowing me to read it without bawling. Also, I think, because of the difficulty I had relating to John and their son Tom, who seem to have trouble relating to Alice on any level that's not logical and intellectual. But it was a sufficiently realistic and compelling portrayal of Alzheimer's to make me sign up for a brain training site. After all, it's in the family.

[berthashaver · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Most books I have read about Alzheimer's disease are from a medical or a caregiver's perspective. This book portrays the life of a university professor that slowly loses her ability to function due to early onset Alzheimer's disease and the frustration she experiences and her interpretations of the actions of the people around her. I found this a very good read since I have a husband with Alzheimer's disease and I found her actions and emotions very similar to ones I have experienced in my own life.

[shanlizluv · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Heartbreaking....

[irregularreader · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I read this book as part of a book club, I probably wouldn't have picked it up otherwise. . . . it's pretty far outside my wheelhouse.

I'm glad I read this book. it's told sympathetically from the point of view of Alice, as she struggles with the decline of everything she is through the ravages of early onset alzheimers disease. the reader sees Alice struggle through the loss of her mental faculties and her sense of family and self.

this is a poignant and occasionally sad book, but we'll worth the read.

[wilwarin_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A griping insight on how it is to live with the Alzheimer's Disease, both from the victim's POV and the surrounding family and friends.

It was written well on how Alice's mind and memory slowly started to get more bad, and I liked the characters in the whole. I felt that John, the husband, got a bit demonetized as he had a hard time tackling his wife's disease and how she changed, but also for him wanting to keep having his own life. A hard battle, surely, on how long one should stop his/her own life for someone else.

I found the language suiting in his coldness and without really vivid emotions, but sometimes I felt the language were over my head with terms and med-talk that I had no clue about. It might be that English isn't my mother language, but it was a little bit hard at times.

On a whole, a good, griping book that I read in two days, with good insight about this disease that I've never considered how it is to have or be around. But I probably won't read it a second time.

[linda2irvine · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Astonishing