Welcome back. The previous book I’d read was by Anita Shreve, and it had been recommended to me by a friend (dead for many years now) and this book I pick up next to read: Let’s take the long way home: a memoir of friendship by Gail CaldwellGail Caldwell wrote “Let’s Take the Long Way Home” to remember her friend Caroline Knapp, who died way too soon. I meant it to be a joint read After ordering two copies of this, one for me and one for my friend Jane in Arizona, I had second thoughts and worried that the death of one of the friends to cancer might be off-putting as Jane just got over a cancer scare herself (and also lost her mom and sister to cancer years ago). In her younger years, Caldwell defined herself by rebellion a Principal ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.” This story started with the best first sentence I think I have ever read...'It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that too." The subtitle is misleading: this isn't so much a memoir of friendship as of the The subtitle is misleading: this isn't so much a memoir of friendship as of the [Because of a spoiler in another GoodReads review, I knew Caldwell's dog Clementine had to be euthanized at the end of the book, but I thought this happened after the pit bull attack, and was glad I was wrong. Caldwell writes with the same grace and elegance, and complete lack of sentimentality Caroline Knapp displayed when writing about the most intimate things. I loved this short memoir of her life and close friendship with Carolyn Knapp, another writer. So you think you're a Romeo / Playing a part in a picture-show / Take the long way home / Take the long way home / Cos you're the joke of the neighborhood / Why should Is it just a coincidence that Caroline Knapp (best friend - deceased - of the book) was a recovered alcoholic and had written a well-received memoir of her struggle? YOU scooped out all my fragile insides and left my heart right there on the ground.A memoir about friendship, the death of a friend, dogs, tough life moments, alcoholism, living.A memoir about friendship, the death of a friend, dogs, tough life moments, alcoholism, living.Using my new Nook is so much fun, but unfortunately it wasn't enough to carry me through this book.
Author Lydia Denworth is a science journalist who has written about everything from Alzheimer’s to zebrafish. It has one of the best first lines I've ever read: "It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too." I knew the basic premise of 2 best friends - one has cancer and dies. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Perhaps my new favorite first line of all time: "It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too." Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
All that aside, the book is, in the end, a touching and lucid narrative of an amazing friendship and then of insufferable grief and loss. And it's the story of Gail Caldwell, the author, going on with her life with a hole rent through it. I can be SO dense! I barely made it through 50 pages.Nice to read alongside Caroline Knapp's memoir, Drinking: A Love Story.Nice to read alongside Caroline Knapp's memoir, Drinking: A Love Story.After ordering two copies of this, one for me and one for my friend Jane in Arizona, I had second thoughts and worried that the death of one of the friends to cancer might be off-putting as Jane just got over a cancer scare herself (and also lost her mom and sister to cancer years ago). Well, gosh, this was kind of disappointing, and I'm not sure why. We should all be so lucky to find a friendship like Gail and Caroline shared in our own lives. It’s a memoir of their friendship – how they met, why their friendship was so profound, the devastation of being forcibly separated and without warning. I was hooked, and that's what I wanted to read about: the memoir of friendship, and unbearable loss.
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