What Comes Next and How to Like It
A Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography book. I have decided that when Im dead Id like my body in the woods under a light...
From the bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, which "shines with honest intelligence" (Elizabeth Gilbert): a fresh, exhilarating, superbly written memoir about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life.What comes next? What comes after the devastating loss of Abigail's husband, a process both sudden and slow? What form does her lifelong platonic friendship take after a certain line is crossed? How to cope with her daughter's diagnosed illness? Or the death of her beloved dog? Is life worth living without three cocktails before dinner? How do you paint the ocean on a sheet of glass?And how...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9781476785059 / 0
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The connection with him is a connection with part of myself, and it has to do with a kind of insatiable curiosity. I mean the part of me that gets connected to the rest of me when Im connecting to him. The insatiably curious part. Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It even when there's no interest on either side one's coordination completely disappears in the presence of beauty (Abigail's daughter, Jen) Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It I have been trying to remember being young, which is hard because I dont feel old until I try to get up from my chair. Or when I look at the photograph Jennifer took of me sitting on a stool next to her twins, and really, from the back, it looks as if I have an open umbrella concealed under my skirt. How did that happen? I think, but, oh well, I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. Its somebody elses turn now. Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It
When I read a memoir, I hope to be at least one of the following: inspired, motivated, entertained, enlightened, educated, or moved. There might be other qualities, but you get the idea. There has to be a takeaway.In What Comes Next, written by a woman in her 70s, I didn't get much of anything, aside from a few entertaining chapters... ARC...5 Stars....Abigail Thomas is a treasure...a memoir to be savored. Memoirs are tough. Too often they seem like a vehicle for self-promotion and bragging, which can backfire and make the author unlikable. Not so with Abigail Thomas. She gives only a brief mention of her career and many accomplishments, and instead, takes a different path in writing this memoir. The book is arranged as a series of chapters...
