Thorndike Biography: All Gone : A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. with Refreshments (Hardcover)

from Beamis12

A heartfelt book about a daughter, who was exceptionally close to her mother, and the mother who had sufffered a series of small strokes and whose memory was slowly eroding. Hoping to help her mother, who had always taken pride in how she took care of her family, she began to cook with her hoping...

from bobbieharv

Alex Witchel is a very good writer (she writes for the New York Times) whose parents seemed very difficult, if not unpleasant (especially her father), and I was happy to learn she's married to Frank Rich now. This book, ostensibly about her mother's dementia, was very readable and enjoyable but I...

from CynWetzel

Sometimes I dislike reading ARCs: I wonder what I'll miss by not reading it again to see what changed. Of course, not all, or even many, books do I reread. Not so much because I might not have like the book, but because my to-read list/pile is so large. Witchel's book is partially subtitled, "A M...

from acornell

There is a scene somewhere in the middle of this book that I can't quite shake. The author is a teenager-frustrated with math homework, and stands up and makes a gesture at the skies as if to say, "I give up." The author's father mistakenly thinks his daughter is going to hit him and punches her ...

from ForSix

I have been on quite a memoir kick as of late. Each has been better than the last and thankfully, All Gone followed that pattern as well. In All Gone, author Alex Witchel recounts her mother's battle with dementia. With refreshments, of course. The book begins with how Ms. Witchel copes by cookin...