Author: Sally Hepworth
Genre: Fiction, Standalone
Published: 2016
Personal Rating: 2/5 (not enjoyable)
Format/Narrator: Audiobook/Plummer & Kreinik
Yearly Count: 10
Anna enters a residential housing situation due to her diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's.
This was not an enjoyable audioread. I didn't care for either of the storylines, which was pretty much all negative. And, on occasion, I was confused as to the timeframe. Blah.
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I liked this one a little better than you, but not by much! This is what I wrote on my blog:
ReplyDeleteWell, that's what I get for not reviewing a book as soon as I finish reading it! Until I read the publisher's blurb, I had zero recollection of either the plot or the characters. The Things We Keep was certainly not as good (or as memorable) as Still Alice, which is also about a character with early onset Alzheimer's. The Things We Keep is told from three points of view, one of which felt contrived and predictable. I feel that Hepworth only scratched the surface of what could have been a very good examination of dementia/Alzheimer's. Ultimately, The Things We Keep left me wanting more substance and less fluff.
Les ~ Sounds like we were pretty much on the same page. Ugh.
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ReplyDeleteBermudaonion ~ Thanks.
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