Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
I love Genova's first book, Still Alice. I thought her second book, Left Neglect, was okay (see review here). I was excited to hear she had a 3rd book out!
I think now that I am a mum, I can understand the mum/child connection better. The aspect I love the most about this book, is for me to learn more about autism from the autistic person's perspective as I do not know a lot about it, and it was eye opening. This reminds me of Still Alice in that regard.
However, I felt that there is an aspect of the story that is a bit unbelievable. I don't want to spoil it by revealing what it is, but for those of you who had read it would know what I mean. Is it impossible? Maybe, maybe not, I don't know, but I felt it weakened the story. Thus I gave it 3.75 Stars since I couldn't decide between 3.5 or 4.
Note - The book was borrowed from the library.
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Hello lovely HUGS
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I thought just if the name was changed, oh well. Still an amazing author.
Yeah, I agree!
DeleteLike you, I loved Still Alice, and thought Left Neglected was okay. I don't know if I want to read this one. If I do come across it at my library, I may pick it up.
ReplyDeleteI do like this better than Left Neglected.
DeleteI want to read this one because of the autism aspect. Most, including you, think at lest theat part was done well.
ReplyDeleteYes, I definitely learned more about autism from their perspective, which I think Genova is very good at doing.
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