The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071R872VM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 539 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Totally 100% unbiased review I would like to say my five star review is rooted in my own literary acumen and this particular book's compelling, beautiful, almost lyric prose. And the book is filled with beauty, lyric and profane. But since it was written by my wife, I feel like I have to come clean and say I'd be giving her five stars regardless, because I loved her more than anything. I love my kids a TON. They're amazing little guys, my favorite living people in the whole world, and I'd literally lay down in Boston traffic for th. Reading a beautiful memoir about a person who is facing imminent death carilynp Reading a beautiful memoir about a person who is facing imminent death is not light reading, especially when you know that the author does not live to see the publication of her book. However, reading a stunning book with their insightful, witty, and compassionate views of what it takes to be a friend, a daughter, a mother, a wife, how to keep living even when in great pain, and how to just care, knowing that your days are truly numbered is beyond eye-opening. It is hard to comprehend how Nina Riggs wro. Alex Saperstein said I plan to give this book to loved ones for years to come and ordered a few. This is simply one of the most magnificent memoirs I've read in years. Even all the starred reviews and raving newspaper reviews' praises doesn't do The Bright Hour justice. I plan to give this book to loved ones for years to come and ordered a few extra copies to donate to our local cancer resource center at Providence. What a treasure this amazing woman has left behind. Don't miss this book.
How does one live each day, "unattached to outcome"? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggs's breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous When Breath Becomes Air. "We are breathless, but we love the days. She asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it's about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina's other muse, Montaigne, can be a bomb and a form of prayer. They are promises. It's a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying "this is what will be." Especially poignant in these uncertain times, The Bright Hour urges us to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art,