The Bright Hour : A Memoir of Living and Dying (Paperback)

from ASKelmore

Best for: People who enjoy memoirs such as When Breath Becomes Air In a nutshell: Now-deceased writer Nina Riggs documents her illness from diagnosis onward Line that sticks with me: "These are the things we all say at the end of book club now: 'I love you.' Of course we do. Why haven't we been s...

from angiestahl

I deeply appreciate reading perspectives on death and dying. These always thrum with life and are very poignant and intimate. When Breath Becomes Air is amazing, as is The Last Lecture and Being Mortal. This has moments of beauty throughout and Nina is someone I would have loved to have in my lif...

from kaylaraeintheway

This memoir, about a woman dying of breast cancer, is heart-wrenching, funny, poignant, and pretty much amazing. Everyone should read this. Don't have much more to say than that!

from bogopea

I got this book based on reviews I read. There was the added fact that Nina Riggs is a descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson and she lived near me. I thought the book was to philosophic in the first few chapters. But the more I read, the more engrossed I got in her life and how she was living it and ...

from DetailMuse

Thirty-eight-year-old Nina Riggs writes her memoir of metastatic breast cancer in snippets and vignettes that are gently illuminating and often funny despite a tragic outcome. She's not overtly sad here. Instead, she's thoughtful and philosophical as she turns to the writings of Montaigne and of ...