STILL ALICE – Just Started…..

I have heard a lot about this particular book ‘Still Alice’ but I’ve never tried to read it. Even though I got a placement in Alzheimer Society, I didn’t thought of reading it because I thought that I’m already dealing with clients related to dementia. I thought I have understood the issues and problems faced by the care givers and the person living with dementia. Little did I know that I’ll have to blog as a part of my assignment on the basis of reading a book related to any mental issue?

But to my surprise I selected this book and started to read the first book in my life…. a novel. More because I’ve seen the author of this book Lisa Genova in a Ted’s Talk and heard the way she expressed her ideas into my little brain to her level of thought, which was a bit like scientific. Astonishingly after a few minutes of her talk I could understand each and every word that she had spoken. So I decided to read her book.

Just as you guys now think I started reading and I completed the first chapter ‘September 2003’. Where Alice, a typical women of education and knowledge, is a great teacher who gives lecture in different places. She also has a wonderful family, with a caring husband and three grown children, which I came to know after reading the back side the book. In the first chapter she exhibits a slight, normal aging issue which is a small memory loss while lecturing that she thinks is not normal to her as she hadn’t experienced it ever before. John, her husband also shows this forgetfulness in the first chapter, making it confuse whether it’s she or John going to be diagnosed with dementia.

Now it’s getting a little bit exciting to read more for you guys just like as I am feeling, but it’s almost night so I’ve to sleep and read it later sometime.