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Just finished. A short but powerful read. The tears have not dried as I write this. Another Aussie writer gone way too soon. I want to write more but hard to find the words. It‘s not depressing , in fact it‘s uplifting.
The book itself is a pleasure for me. Hard back and printed on thick white paper that looks like it would stay white forever. So glad I was able to hold this book and read it.

And this is the eternal human paradox,the only way we can cope with our mortality is to ignore it, to live as though we have all the time in the world.

Oh my. So beautiful. So sad. What an incredibly special book. Read it if you dare. Thank you and vale Georgia Blain. 😍💔

“The best way to pay tribute to the Australian author, who died in the same week as her mother Anne Deveson, is to read her work” Sophie Cunningham, The Guardian, Dec 2016.

“Life is an amorphous mess, a huge soup of details we wade our way through, and in order to make sense of what is happening to us, we impose structure or narrative. It is inescapable.”

Writing about sharing news with her mother who has dementia Georgia says,
“Sometimes…she momentarily surfaces out of the goldfish bowl of Alzheimer‘s where she spends most of her time, swimming round, trapped, bumping up against her own reflection.
‘So what do I do now?‘ She asks.”
My mum has Alzheimer‘s and often asks that same question. It‘s a tough one to answer. I sometimes say, “surrender” or “it‘s your turn to be looked after now.” 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wasn‘t planning to start this right away, but couldn‘t help myself.
Georgia is reflecting on her daughter‘s reading here.
Having recently read Grapes of Wrath, this resonated. 😍💯🙌

@Rissreads @Jeg Look what I got my hands on today 😍.

@Rissreads This is the book of hers I don‘t have, but very much want if you happen to see it on your travels. 🙏 I‘ll let you know if I manage to find it first.

This book finally came from all the way across the pond! I couldn‘t find it anywhere in the US! I loved Georgia Blaine‘s novel Between a Wolf and a Dog so much so I just had to get this one. It‘ll be awhile before I start this as I have other book commitments but I‘m excited it‘s here!

This is my first read for the #aussiesrule2018 challenge (for prompt 6: character with chronic illness or disability - can be NF). After having written about a character with brain cancer, Blain is dealing with her mother who has Alzheimer's and a friend who has brain cancer when she discovers she also has a brain tumour. This is book is brave and meticulous, about the love of words and the loss of them, and will punch you in the feels.

Your a novelist you are writing a book about someone with a brain tumor , your mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's she forgets you. Your best friend discovers she has an aggresive brain cancer , she cannot communicate with you anymore. Georgia loves words, this is her world she is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour this is her last book , and is written so beautifully poignantly , Her mother dies 3 days after Georgia.