Re: [book_talk] Love Anthony
- From: "Sue Ellen Melo" <susan.melo@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:53:57 -0400
You should try both books, this author is truly gifted.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Audrey" <waterdiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: [book_talk] Love Anthony
> Now hearing you mention the Left Neglected book, peaks my interest in it
> again. I think I remember y'all talking about it a while back.
>
> Maybe this is the time for me to read that one. Still so frustrated about
> the ongoing new difficulty involved in simply getting on and off the bus,
> each time, without getting mortally injured one way or another as payback
> for needing ramp & something like curb cut access. Audrey
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:36 PM, "Sue Ellen Melo" <susan.melo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I just finished reading Love Anthony by Lisa Genova. I mannaged to lay
>> hands
>> on a commercial audio copy of this book. Her book Left Neglected which I
>> read last Spring completely changed my attitude toward being a disabled
>> person. So when I heard about this book I ran right out and found a copy.
>> It is a sad and powerful story that is really about 2 women looking for
>> answers and trying to find themselves.
>> Beth's world is shattered one stormy March day when she goes for the mail
>> and picks up a birthday card from her husband's girlfriend. He not only
>> doesn't deny the affair, but moves in with the woman then decides months
>> later he wants her back. Olivia is mourning the death of her autistic son
>> Anthony and the complete collaps of her marriage to the boy's father.
>> while
>> looking for what to wear to go check out her hubby's new girlfriend, Beth
>> stumbles on a box in the attic with cloths she enjoyed wearing, and the
>> tools of her writing that she had set aside somewhere along the way of
>> becoming a hyper obsessed wife and mother. She looks at an old short
>> story
>> based partly on a chance encounter on the beach then fueled by a book she
>> read and begins to write a story about a boy named Anthony with Autism
>> even
>> as Olivia, at last begins confronting her memories of living with a son
>> who
>> seemed never to be able to communicate and who's voice she wanted so much
>> to
>> hear. The two women's lives cross in passing and eventually cometogether
>> over this novel.
>>
>> This is a wonderful story about what it means to love and express love.
>> As
>> well as how we communicate and the different ways to listen. I absolutely
>> could not put this book down. I would highly recommend it to anyone who
>> can
>> appreciate a story that is sould deep.
>>
>> ___
>> Sue Ellen
>> @CSLewisDaily: The probability of us being here is so small, you'd think
>> the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of
>> surprise.
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>>
>>
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