I hope I did as well, I tried to only think of my family not my pain! Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
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Please read an excellent novel that will hold you captive, crying, but a good reminder of what we all need to strive for, memories of those special moments in our lives!! Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. By revealing how she learned what was significant and insignificant in her relationships, Maynard reminds us all to love better. It was a clear and honest accounting of a life lived with many bumps and accomplishments on her own - to one shared deeply and intimately with a great love.
I did finish the book hoping to find compassion and a love story amidst the tragedy of cancer. ago.
That night we talked about the trips we'd take, the olive trees we would plant, the grandchildren we might share. This is a very emotional, revealing story of the pain of facing such a battle but it also reveals the meaning of true love. Hospice has resources that dramatically help in that regard. I also lost my father to pancreatic cancer and it is a devastating disease. While Joyce Maynard related a very difficult and sad story of her husband's illness and death, she left me unmoved. JOYCE MAYNARD IS UNFATHOMABLY HEROIC.
This information sets the stage for their marriage, what made it special, and how Jim's illness affected them both. What I do see is a woman who is all too human and has made many mistakes along the way, so I kind of identify with her in that regard. Please try again. That was my idea, though never my husband’s.Not until we learned of his illness, and we walked the path of that terrible struggle together, did I understand what it meant to be a couple—to be a true partner and to have one. Certainly, the two of them had enough money to throw at the disease, as most people do not. She is the author of several books, including To Die For, Where Love Goes, Domestic Affairs, Baby Talk, and her memoir Looking Back, which she wrote at the age of eighteen. Joyce draws you in with background information about herself and about her husband. I'm so thankful for finding this story ... a story I may have to experience in the next few years. Different kind of cancer but many things are alike. I loved Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us for many reasons: Her beautiful writing, the falling in love with her husband, the opening of herself to love, how they dealt with his pancreatic cancer, and the lessons she learned. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Workshops.
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I'm a bit late to the game of reading and reviewing Joyce Maynard's moving memoir, "The Best of Us". But it is the worst form of pancreatic cancer. It's a book all should read to prepare you for most likely this horrible disease that kills the ones we love! You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Press. This level of sheer genuine joy virtually guarantees that at some point, the universe will swing the pendulum back around, and both are then shell-shocked by the sudden sledgehammer of Jim's pancreatic cancer diagnosIs. Each of us had been divorced almost twenty-five years. So they live happily after.
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