Comments on: Review: You Disappear, Christian Jungersen

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:10:30 +0000

In reply to litlove. No, I agree. It's particularly nonfatal as a flaw if you're interested in brains to begin with, which I enormously am (while also recognizing that brain science is very very flawed and imprecise and uncertain).

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:09:43 +0000

In reply to Teresa. It hadn't occurred to me either, but then I saw You Disappear on NetGalley (or Edelweiss?) and snapped it up right away!

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:09:17 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. It's interesting, though as I say, more for the brain sciencey information than the story.

By: litlove

litlove — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:03:11 +0000

Hmm, my husband has days when he fails to screw the lids back on anything and he is hopeless at closing doors of all kinds behind him. I say, half-joking, that I have to be sarcastic to him in order to check that he doesn’t have early onset Alzheimers…. I have The Exception after reading your review of it and, ahem, have not got around to reading it yet. I will, though! And this sounds fascinating too. Yours is the second review I’ve read of it today, and you both say essentially the same thing – amazing ideas that rather overtake the storytelling. But that kind of flaw isn’t necessarily a fatal one.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:58:07 +0000

Ooh! I liked The Exception quite a lot, but, oddly, it hadn’t even occurred to me to see if the author had any more books. I see, however, that this is a brand-new one, so at least I haven’t been missing out. Now off to ask the library to order it!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:47:07 +0000

My father had brain cancer, and he said some odd things in the months before he died of it, like “be quieter, I can’t hear the cards” and new observations about a painting that had been in his bedroom for more than 50 years.
When more time has passed, I might read this book.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:34:57 +0000

In reply to Grad. Oh gosh, yay! I hope you like whatever the four are! :)

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:30:42 +0000

In reply to Alice. It has indeed! I am finding, though, that the amount of objects and furniture required to fill a person's life in New York City is dramatically smaller than the amount required to fill a person's life in a city with normal-size apartments. I'm not great with books on illness either, but I feel okay about brain damage. I feel like the people in my life would have spotted that and mentioned it to me if I was acting weird.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:16:38 +0000

In reply to Athira.

It really, really does. My experience with this is at a couple of degrees’ remove — the person in question wasn’t someone who lived with me, so the change wasn’t as striking — but still, a lot of the stuff in this book rang very true to me.

By: Grad

Grad — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:55:42 +0000

Not sure this one would appeal to me, but I might give it a try. I did, however, want to tell you how much I enjoyed your “superlative” end of the reading year post! You mentioned 4 that I immediately put on my list for this year. Many thanks. Here’s to another great blogging year.