The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

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Summary: A stunning memoir
Review: This memoir is a heartbreaking and beautiful story of a family and its sorrows and its joys, a story of mourning and dreams and love. Cohen is a brave writer. She explores what it means to be a daughter, a mother, a wife. She speaks her truth, and she speaks it with humor and with grace. You have to read this book.

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Summary: Great Memoir
Review: This was a very touching story with a lot of humor in it. The part where her parents go into assisted living made me cry; it made me think of how I would feel if my own parents became too weak and ill to care for themselves. Although the author shoulders many burdens, she looks for the humor in the situation or realizes that despite her troubles, she also has many things to be thankful for. I'm sure her positive energy had a big effect on everyone around her, including family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and even the people who read her newspaper column. A good attitude plays a vital role in attracting the help and kindness of other humans; I also believe it is important in the repair & healing of things which are broken or injured. I felt very happy at the end when her broken family finally moved toward unity.

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Summary: The House on Bear Town Road
Review: Very well written book showing author's comapassion for her father. I also have a father who has Alzheimer's Disease and I could associate with all of Elizabeth Cohen's experiences, frustrations and her role as care giver to her dad. Her descriptions of her father's thoughts and behavior is so true. He mirrored my own father's reactions and disease progression.
Her analogy of the learning and the forgetting is so eye opening.
This book should be recommended reading for everyone who has a loved one with Alzheimer's.
I thououghly enjoyed the book and couldn't put it down until I finished it.

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Summary: The House on Bear Town Road
Review: Very well written book showing author's comapassion for her father. I also have a father who has Alzheimer's Disease and I could associate with all of Elizabeth Cohen's experiences, frustrations and her role as care giver to her dad. Her descriptions of her father's thoughts and behavior is so true. He mirrored my own father's reactions and disease progression.
Her analogy of the learning and the forgetting is so eye opening.
This book should be recommended reading for everyone who has a loved one with Alzheimer's.
I thououghly enjoyed the book and couldn't put it down until I finished it.

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Summary: Welcome to life, and all it brings
Review: What a wonderful book. I have noticed that many who review this book are intimately involved in Alzheimers, be they professional or private care-givers. I don't have anyone in my immediate family with Alzheimers, but I read this as a potential gift to a friend who does. I am grateful that I was motivated to read this lovely, loving account of a disease and the way if effects those who are near it. The author and her family serve as reminders that love comes in all forms, and may be asked of you at the most inconvient moments. Don't wait until you have Alzheimers in your family to read this book. So much gentle learning to be done, so much joy to be given, so many miles we go, travellers through life.