The Bright Hour : A memoir of living and dying

El libro lo compre para un regalo. Llego con las hojas mal cortadas... lo tuve que devolver. Solicite el reemplazo y de nuevo me llego un ejemplar defectuoso, la tapa no se ajustaba al tamaño de las hojas y la parte atrás también tenia un trozo roto. Una decepción, no recomiendo comprarlo por aquí.

Importante per comprendere il vissuto del paziente.. Da consigliare a tutti i soggetti coinvolti quotidianamente nell’assistenza del malato , per una visione completa

Note to self: Never again buy a dying person's memoir. It's just not worth your time or patience.

Sad and true story, though her writing is influenced by being a poet and you can notice it while reading the book. Also too many references to Montaigne and Emerson, though its a great memoir for her kids and an inspiring book nonetheless.

A disclaimer up front: Nina Riggs is my friend, and I love her. But I don't think my review of her book is in any way biased because of my love for her--I could have and would have written the same review even if I hadn't known her in life. What I tell every person when I'm encouraging them to read it is that this book will make you wish you had known her, and yet it will also make you feel like you do. Such is the power of Nina's words, her capacity to reveal her self through them, and the unique beauty of that self. I read the book when it was first released, but I haven’t been able to summon the words for a review, because I have feared I have no words to do this book justice. But here goes: Living means suffering. Suffering and pain—some of it truly devastating and seemingly unendurable—will come to all of us. If we are lucky, it will come later in life rather than sooner, but it will come. The Bright Hour teaches us that even in the midst of great suffering, there still exists great beauty, laughter, and yes, even joy. The key is that we must both accept the suffering and seek the beauty. We each already have the capacity to hold these impossibly contradictory things, and Nina shows us how, with a book that somehow manages to be uplifting and funny even as it tells what could be the saddest of sad stories. So this book is for anyone who has ever suffered or will suffer, and so it is for all of us, because none of us can escape suffering. But Nina’s gift is to show us that we can learn to do more than just to endure it. We can learn how to live—to truly live—within it.