“Here I am, in lieu of you, collecting the moments.” This book was so jumbled and so much of what you wrote in your review.
Here’s the fear: she gave to us, and we took from her, until she disappeared.” I received an advance copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. That I loosened the jar lid, so somebody else could open him up.”
by Henry Holt and Co. And love." “What imperfect carriers of love we are, and what imperfect givers. I just wasn't feeling the love so many Goodreaders seem to have for Unfortunately I have to check the "nope" column for this one. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I read to focus and relax.
Ruth has gone home to take care of her father, who has Alzheimer's, and as his memory-loss accelerates, certain plots that would have been used for melodrama by a lesser writer (an affair; a slapstick sequence of classes) fade out because her dad has simply forgotten them. “What imperfect carriers of love we are, and what imperfect givers. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Discuss the many layers of Ruth and Howard’s relationship. Clever, tender and wry, GOODBYE, VITAMIN is a study of one family, their descent into decay and then back out again…maybe.
Her fiancé has just left her and she’s feeling rudderless, so she quits her job and moves home to help her mother take care of him. Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Ruth, the novel's narrator, returns to her parents' home to help with her father, who has Alzheimer's. We’d love your help. “You know what else is unfair, about Joel? “It’s all so messed up. And here I am, now, a shitty grown-up, and messing it all up, and a disappointment.” She is still an emotional wreck when she moves back into her parents' home to take care of her father, who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. When the novel opens in December, Ruth has recently separated from her unfaithful fiancé. There's a lot to discuss: aging/declining parents, 'the sandwich generation' (though the adult children in this story don't have their own children), There's a lot to discuss: aging/declining parents, 'the sandwich generation' (though the adult children in this story don't have their own children), My mind can be distracted and disjointed.
Now I feel like a shit for spending that time - that's the word it's convention to use: spending - on what turns out not to matter, and neglecting the things that did, and do.” Witty, comical, downright hilarious at times... once I started this I was so afraid that reading about Alzheimer’s would trigger sad memories from when my grandma had it but this story was funny. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Khong. "Random" is a good word.
It’s a poignant read that sneaks up on you and is filled with such beautiful vignettes of life, love, relationships (romantic, … 30 year old Ruth finds herself sitting alone in her new apartment. Her father is young enough to still be working when Alzheimer’s rears its ugly head. There's a sort of wispy melancholy that never becomes too maudlin. The writing is clever too, with an interesting, tender pivot between caretaker and caretakee appearing about two-thirds of the way through, in the form of simple sentences that try to record a rapidly changing person as they were on a specific day.Goodbye, Vitamin. “The mind tells you what or whom to love, and then you do it, but sometimes the mind plays tricks, and sometimes the mind is the worst.” “I used to be very quick to judge the old men who don’t know that when you walk past them on the sidewalk where they’re sweeping leaves, they should stop sweeping.
That it has only to do with who we were around that person—what we felt about that person.” “When I brought it up, months later, Joel said, "What are you talking about?"
From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. Her own relationship has failed and she quits her job to return home, after several consecutive years (or at least holidays) away, so she hasn't seen the deterioration as it happened.This book struck all the right notes for me: sweet without being saccharine, funny but not trying too hard, characters that are charmingly offbeat without being capital Q "Quirky". “Sometimes I like a hangover because it’s something to do. The structure is very clever - it's a rare novel of reverse accumulation. I was drawn to the story of a woman whose father is in early stages of Alzheimer's due to a similar personal situation. “Here's the fear: she gave to us, and we took from her, until she disappeared.” “You know what else is unfair, about Joel? I enjoyed how this book was told in a fresh humorous way, she gently touches on the everyday sad reality of losing someone you love to this cruel illness and steered away from what could have been a sad, depressing story, the only criticism is that the book lacked a little focus, it felt somewhat disjointed and random it didn't flow for me enough to feel coherent as a whole. I personally loved the sparse contents, a journal with brief entries of a sort, chronological over the course of a year. But I knew it was a quick read so I finally picked it up.
Goodbye, Vitamin.
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