The Still Point of the Turning World, (Paperback)

from villemezbrown

I don't get memoirists who spend their whole book feeding you other author's quotes. It's like being in a relationship with someone who gives you mix tapes instead of actually talking with you. So, yeah, this book is crammed with epigraphs, quotes, and literary analysis as the author writes an a...

from akblanchard

The Still Point of the Turning World (TSPOTTW) is to having a child with a fatal genetic disorder what Cheryl Strayed's Wild is to hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. In other words, the book is ostensibly about one thing, but it's actually about quite another. Both TSPOTTW and Wild are about the emo...

from knittingmomof3

The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp is an exceptionally beautiful memoir about parenting a terminally ill child. Rapp, through the use of exceptional prose, offers readers much to think about in regards to life and death, far beyond the traditional way of thinking. While the topic ...

from knittingmomof3

The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp is an exceptionally beautiful memoir about parenting a terminally ill child. Rapp, through the use of exceptional prose, offers readers much to think about in regards to life and death, far beyond the traditional way of thinking. While the topic ...