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Chargement... Louise: Amendedpar Louise Krug
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  lg4154 | Oct 1, 2012 |   Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways. It was an interesting story although the jumping of perspectives was a bit off putting. The style I found to be alright, a bit slowish. I was able to read the story andi may recommend it to a few friends. (  ) saffie | Jul 4, 2012 | Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways. Quick, easy read. Perceptions of recovery not only from victim but also those around her. Food for thought - what if it happened to me? ( ) ewhatley | May 10, 2012 | Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways. This author's style of writing could not hold my attention. (  ) kissmeimgone | May 1, 2012 | Cette critique a été rédigée pour LibraryThing Member Giveaways. Imagine that you wake up one day, go on about your usual business, but then you are struck with a debilitating brain condition. One half of your body goes numb, and you are unable to use it. That is what happened to the author of this story, Louise Krug.Krug is able to take the perspective of the characters mostly closely involved in her life during the onset of this tragic brain condition. She writes each segment from one of these people’s perspectives: hers, her boyfriend, mom, dad, or brother. Each person tells of how the onset, surgery, and recovery effect them. They tell of guilt, sadness, hope, and a myriad of other emotions. Switching between so many characters, one might guess this would be a difficult book to follow. However, the author is able to do this in an effective matter without causing confusion. In fact, this book is a truly easy and quick read, though the topic is less that simple. spookyspice | Apr 17, 2012 |
 "Louise: Amended is the story of her recovery, her reactions and her relationships. She details her treatments and her progress, her persistence and frustrations, and the effect the whole incident has on her friends and family. The book switches between first-person narration by Krug about the events, and third-person narration about what she imagines others are feeling and doing in relation to her....the technique lets readers inside the minds of others dealing with the situation."  “Her fight for recovery is inspirational.” Distinctions
Health & Fitness.
Sociology.
Women's Studies.
Nonfiction.
HTML:A young woman recently relocated to California with dreams of becoming a journalist is stricken with a brain trauma and must work to regain her independence in this "must read" memoir (Mary Karr, author of The Liar's Club) "Having just graduated from college, Krug and her dreamy French boyfriend, Claude (a man given to wearing his button??down shirts buttoned halfway up), leave the flatlands of Kansas for Santa Barbara, California??there, Krug finds a reporting job covering high society 'gardens, weddings, and pets,' and Claude gets a gig with a local paper. Young, in love, gainfully employed, and living close to the coast, post??collegiate life couldn't be better??day after day 'they drink Mexican beer and wear bathing suits indoors. They do drugs and wander through organic markets, spotting celebrities.' But just weeks after settling in, Krug suffers a 'severe' cavernous angioma in her brain. She gets dizzy, she can't walk, and it soon becomes clear that brain surgery is inevitable, and life will never be the same. In gracefully stark prose, Krug narrates in the third person the implosion of what should've been her gilded life, the sad and prolonged dissolution of her relationship with Claude, and her transformation from 'the kind of girl other girls only pretended to like' to a wife, mother, and PhD candidate back in Kansas. Interspersed throughout are fictional imaginings of the perspectives of her loved ones as she endures numerous surgeries and years of physically and emotionally excruciating rehab. Supplemented with facsimiles of the 'Illustrated Facial Exercises' she used to work damaged muscles, as well as other medical documents, Krug's story is an immediate, unsparing, and beautifully rendered account of loss and recovery. ??Publishers Weekly, Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I won this thru Library Thing and I thought it was an amazing book. It is about Louise Krug who goes thru a life changing event in which her health never fully recovered. The book also goes into detail about her family and how it affected them. (