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Summary: Know More Lindbergh Words
Review: If you're a caregiver or know someone who is, or has been, do them a profound favor and buy them this book. They will be grateful to you and comforted by Lindbergh's book.As a daughter of a beloved father who recently passed away from an eleven-year battle with Alzheimers, I had some deep swallows reading this book and some good laughs too. Lindbergh dares to ponder the questions caregivers all think, but seldom mention out loud. Yes, there were different conditions for Mrs. Lindbergh. There was no financial burden of care for her ailing mother, and she had round-the-clock, hired care. But the time spent every day with her mother was still sacrificial. There was the years of long goodbyes, only to have her mother rally again. Self-doubts and regrets plagued her too as did, "Am I doing all I can, all I should?" Lindbergh's words are refreshingly forthright and bold. The subtle slipping away of her much-loved mother, along with the absolute oddness of the disease, are all explored in this comforting little book. Lindbergh's writing is proof that rich or poor, there seems to be no easy journey through life and that attitude is a key to getting through it at all. While caring for her mother, she said goodbye to a sister, who died of cancer, besides being a wife and keeping involved in her children's lives. She has a line about her mother in the book, "I am conscious, more than anything else, of her [Mrs. Lindbergh's] strength." As someone who has read nearly all of Mrs. Lindbergh's works, it is obvious to this reviewer that this strength has been carried through to the next generation of Lindberghs in Reeve Lindbergh. For followers missing fresh words from Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of the famous Charles, No More Words, fills the void through the writing voice of her daughter, Reeve. Readers get the treasureed gift to "know more Lindbergh words" through the talented and revealing hand of Reeve Lindbergh.
The 168 pages will safely hold your tears and your tender memories of the people in your life who you've had to say goodbye to. You will come away from this book, grateful that Lindbergh took the time to share publicly, how long and how hard goodbyes can be. Her words will touch and stay in your soul long after you've finished reading her book.
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Summary: Unique Aviation and Literary Accomplishments
Review: It's some of the similarities that drew me to this book: Reeve Lindbergh is just my age, with a mother who was a writer. Like my own mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a gifted poet and wordsmith who lost the power to think clearly and use words effectively in her old age. The strange, unsettling contrast between the silent old woman and the wondrous communicator she once was is a central theme. I kept turning back to the cover to re-connect with the image of young Anne when she was keen and alert.
Reeve is an excellent observer of her own mother: at once compassionate and meticulously objective. There is much humor in this book, and a refreshing openness about the ambivalence Reeve and her siblings felt as their mother's decline looked likely to last for endless years and to drain their energies in caring for her. I admire her honesty as she probes her own feelings of mingled guilt and tenderness toward her mother. Many flashbacks to the earlier years, including life with Anne's famous husband Charles Lindbergh, add to the fascination of this lovely book.
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Summary: Unusual candor, sensitive portrait
Review: It's some of the similarities that drew me to this book: Reeve Lindbergh is just my age, with a mother who was a writer. Like my own mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a gifted poet and wordsmith who lost the power to think clearly and use words effectively in her old age. The strange, unsettling contrast between the silent old woman and the wondrous communicator she once was is a central theme. I kept turning back to the cover to re-connect with the image of young Anne when she was keen and alert.
Reeve is an excellent observer of her own mother: at once compassionate and meticulously objective. There is much humor in this book, and a refreshing openness about the ambivalence Reeve and her siblings felt as their mother's decline looked likely to last for endless years and to drain their energies in caring for her. I admire her honesty as she probes her own feelings of mingled guilt and tenderness toward her mother. Many flashbacks to the earlier years, including life with Anne's famous husband Charles Lindbergh, add to the fascination of this lovely book.
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Summary: Unique Aviation and Literary Accomplishments
Review: Thank you Reeve Lindbergh for No More Words. Your beautiful work, No More Words and Under a Wing, is fleshing out the remarkable aviation and literary achievements of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and, at the same time, is clarifying the unique personal and public challenges that were met by Charles Lindbergh. Both were partners in a unique marriage and at a unique time. Is this couple's experience not the beginning of the media's assaulting frenzy? The reader benefits by a wealth of complex information by reading this book and also benefits by a sense of peace and purpose. It is as if Anne Morrow Lindbergh (and Charles Lindbergh) is being properly placed in history. I was particularly interested in the descriptions of a progressively declining lady; there is much to be learned from the dual descriptions of uncertainty on one hand and certain grace on the other. A must read.
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Summary: No More Words
Review: There is only one word for the writing in this book: luminous. Beyond the poetic texture of the words lies an profound expression of the struggle of watching a parent decline -- in this case, the silence of a mother whose words were her life vocation is particularly painful. This is a book I would like to pass to my children so that they can understand their anguish when I begin my own descent. Two of our book club have already read this, and it will be our book of choice for the month of January.
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Summary: Simply Lovely
Review: This is a fast reading book concerning Mrs. Charles Lindbergh's last few years of life. Written by youngest Lindbergh sibling, Reeve, she tells of living on her own farm in Vermont, with a smaller house on the property her mother lived in during that time. Reeve Lindbergh is a wonderful writer - she doesn't need the famous last name to prove that. When she isn't writing about her mother, which is riveting for some reason, her writing of anything else in the book has such a fresh, emotional spirit behind her words. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a legend in her own time both in flying, her husband, and her many published works, did not talk much in her last years. It is a story of how the family felt and coped with her condition, letting go of the vibrant mother they once knew. An excellent book for those who have been a caregiver to a parent or sibling. Anne M.L. was such a famous figure, it was both interesting and heartwrenching to have the privilege of reading about her day to day living. Thank you, Reeve Lindbergh, for sharing this story that you could have kept to yourself, but chose to share. It's a book that will be remembered long after it's read.
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Summary: No More Words
Review: Throughout my teens, I devoured each installment of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's journals. Then I read Charles Lindbergh's memoirs. A few years ago, the Notable Trials Library published the trial transcripts from Bruno Richard Hauptmann's kidnapping and murder proceedings. Now, Reeve Lindbergh, Charles and Anne's youngest daughter, has published a memoir concerning her aging mother's final months. These works have left a lasting impression upon me -- No More Words included. This accomplished, literary family has shared so much of their private lives in so many ways. It is fitting that Reeve Lindbergh (who has her mother's rare gift of perception and expression) shared these final months of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's life with us. As was true of nearly all of the Lindbergh diaries (Bring Me a Unicorn was the upbeat exception), reading No More Words left me emotionally-drained at times. Ms. Lindbergh weaves memories of her strong, wise mother into the story of her mother's frail final years. Each chapter begins with an excerpt from Anne Morrow Lindbergh's works which somehow puts the upcoming chapter into perspective. This book falls within the "couldn't put it down" category -- it is easily finished in a couple of sittings.
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