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Chargement... Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love (2011)par Matthew Logelin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In a remarkable coincidence, Matthew Logelin and I each lost a young wife, were left with a daughter named Madeline, and wrote a book about the experience. He and I are very different people but we both came to some very similar conclusions. ( ) "It will make you cry, but not only out of sadness. Some of you tears will be for the beauty of love and its miraculous power to heal even the deepest of wounds." John Grogan, author of "Marley & Me". This quote exactly gets the essence of this lovely book. 5 stars because I really loved the book and would recommend it for reading, but Amazing? not sure. Certainly beautiful, sad, joyous, heartbreaking memoir of a young man's struggle and growth to be a new father after his wife's death 27 hours after she gave birth. This is a really hard book to review. It was even harder to read. On March 24th, 2008 Matt Logelin experienced the greatest day of his life, the birth of his daughter Madeliene, premature but perfect in every way. Just 27 hours later, on March 25, 2008, he suffered the worst agony he could ever imagine, the death of his wife Liz. It was an embolism, striking just as she was about to see her daughter for the first time since a brief glimpse following and emergency cesarean section. This book is a memoir detailing Matt and Liz's life together and the first year of his life after her death, raising their daughter alone. This memoir is a labor of love, written for both his wife and his daughter. I listened to most of this book, read by Matthew Logelin himself. It was heartbreaking and I cried through almost every page up through the funeral. I cried less after that, but it never got easier to hear him detail how difficult it was to navigate his new life. His story is a true tragedy, but it is also an inspiration. Since his wife's death, Matt has created the Liz Logelin Foundation, a charity organization dedicated to proving help to widows and widowers with a young family. He also spends every day making sure that Maddy gets to know the mother she will never meet. I cannot imagine being in his shoes, and not only has he survived, but he has thrived, creating a loving home for his daughter and hope for others who know his pain. You can tell the book was written by a real person, not a professional writer and I like that about it, but it could also be jarring. Matthew Logelin is a man who likes colorful language and it's liberally sprinkled throughout his memoir. Sometimes it was too much, sometimes yanking me out of the emotion and sympathy I felt for this man. However, this is purely my own issue. The memoir itself was touching and beautiful and I highly recommend it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:Matt Logelin writes a courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of his life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife. Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz's pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world. Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation; he chose to keep moving forward-to make a life for Maddy. In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz's legacy, heartache has become solace. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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