Lisa Genova Puns

I've been talking about Alzheimer's and memory for over a decade, and everyone over 40 is pretty much freaked out about what and how much they forget every day. Many are convinced they are already on the road to dementia. But forgetting most often isn't a sign of disease, aging, or a failure of character. It's a normal part of being human, a product of how our brains have evolved. Our brains are not designed to remember people’s names, to do something later, or to catalog everything we encounter. These imperfections are simply the factory settings. But we tend to lay a lot of judgment, fear, shame, and stress on ourselves every time we forget to take out the trash or can't remember the name of that a friend recommended, and we're unfairly punishing ourselves here.

• Where did I put my phone, my keys, my glasses, my car?
• Oh, what's his name?
• Why did I come in this room?
• I forgot to remember to buy eggs

These are all super common and TOTALLY NORMAL kinds of forgetting. I want to normalize and humanize forgetting, to help people understand why these memory failures happen so they can relax, stop shaming themselves, and have a better relationship with their memory. Memory is an amazing superpower, but it's also a bit of a dunce. I think we can take memory seriously, but hold it lightly.

While REMEMBER contains strategies and tips for improving and protecting your memory, the real intention of this book is to provide you with insight as to how memory works—and why you forgot to attend your 4:00 Zoom meeting.

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Howdy, I’ve decided to get back into reading, and I’ll be writing a review for each book that I read. I’ll try to keep spoilers to an absolute minimum.

Each review will follow the same format:

• Synopsis
• Thoughts on the book’s quality
• Score of 1 - 10
• Other adaptation(s)
• Conclusion

#Synopsis

Still Alice is a novel by Lisa Genova. It’s a drama that follows Dr. Alice Howland, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. She’s also a widely celebrated psychologist specializing in linguistics; a pioneer in her field.

But her brilliance and relatively young age (50) aren’t enough to save her from memory lapses of increasing severity and frequency. Lapses that are soon attributed by her neurologist to early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

#Thoughts, opinions

The story is predictable. Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disease that has no cure, and so there’s not a lot of wiggle room for Alice’s fate or the direction of the story. But even so, Still Alice is beautifully written and entertaining. The narrative also employs several techniques that help put you directly in Alice’s shoes, and skillfully fosters empathy and care.

The characters in the story are very relatable, and they feel alive. And as a result, it holds a lot of emotional weight. The story is tragic, sweet, and bitter. For what it set out to do, it accomplished it flawlessly.

The story is also very informative. Having read it, I feel like I have a much better grasp on what Alzheimer’s really is and how it affects people. And yes, the story is a credible source. Lisa Genova has a PhD in psychology, as well as personal experience with family and friends who have Alzheimer’s.

Now as for the actual prose, the writing is quite smooth (usually). Although certain aspects of it feel very formal and/or clinical. Alice sometimes uses big words in her thoughts, and it can be difficult to understand all of them the way that Alice does; her being highly educated on these terms, and us presumably not.

Also, be prepared to be told the names of streets, the middle and last names of people, addresses, technical terms, etc etc, and be prepared to forget them all. This could be an intentional technique; us forgetting the address of Alice’s house helps us relate to her when she herself forgets that same address. And if it is intentional, then it’s very clever. But it does hurt the sentence flow sometimes.

But for the most part, it’s pleasant to read.

#Score:

#9

There’s a reason I chose this no

Hi! When my grandmother had Alzheimer's, I learned all about the neuroscience of her disease, but I was still left wondering--what does it feel like to have Alzheimer's? I rearranged my life to answer this question. In my quest for empathy, I traded in my pipette for a pen and wrote a novel about a woman with Alzheimer's, told from her perspective. But no one would represent or publish my book. 100 rejection letters later, I self-published it, selling copies out of the trunk of my car until it eventually found an agent and Simon and Schuster. Fast forward 10 years. STILL ALICE has been translated into 36 languages and was adapted into a film that won Julianne Moore an Oscar. My 5th novel, EVERY NOTE PLAYED, was published March 20. I write stories about people living with neurological diseases who are ignored, feared, or misunderstood, using fiction as an accessible way to educate and raise compassionate awareness. Here I am. Ask me anything!

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I literally ate this book and I have a few questions: why wasn't the sickness Alice had ever developed? I mean, it's kinda like Grayscale but they don't go into detail :/ It didn't even lead to much, downer ending

Also no hard magic system, it left me expecting more... I also wanted a worldbuilding chapter or more factions but the author seems to have forgotten. The romantic relationship between Alice and her husband felt forced too.

When is the sequel coming out?

Announced on Twitter by HDSA and Genova.

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I just finished listening to Every Note Played by Lisa Genova and narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris and Dagmara Dominczyk. It was only about 8 hours long but what a great book. I have enjoyed every book Genova has written.

I just finished reading this book the other day and I am still hung up on the ending. It was a really great book, but the ending left me hanging and it is making e a bit crazy. Anyone else feel this way?

Here's a quick list of all the titles mentioned in the weekend reading thread H2-2021.

If there's any duplicate, or if I missed out on any, do let me know. We can perhaps use this to build upon with more interesting titles. Later, I might add all the books suggested in the Indiansread Discord Bookclub. (any and all help appreciated)

Hope this helps :)

P.s. I hope, with all this books being read by our users, we will see more book summaries/reviews (these need not be to big, just few lines about it would be nice too)

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1. Being different by Rajiv Malhotra
2. Tearing down the Aryan Invasion Myth' by Dr.Shiv Sastry.
3. Spice and Wolf by D G apte
4. Theft of Swords
5. Land of seven rivers' by Sanjeev Sanyal
6. The Lost River: on the trails of Saraswati' by Michel Danino
7. classroom of the elite
8. at home" by bill Bryson
9. Savarkar by Vikram Sampath
10. V for Vendetta
11. Arming without Aiming: India's Military Modernization and
12. Young Men in Spats
13. Universities in ancient India by D G apte
14. natural history of dragon
15. so what, I am a spider
16. Let Me Say it Now
17. The Vault of Vishnu
18. The Modi Effect by Lance Price
19. Goblin Emperor
20. Preluded and Nocturne and Consider the Lobster
21. Three Thousand Stitched by Sudha murty
22. The martian by Andy Weir
23. flowering tree and other oral tales from India
24. India that is Bharat by Sai Deepak.
25. Prisoners of geography
26. Modi stole my mask
27. Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
28. India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory
29. Dreams of the dying
30. The bell jar
31. The trial Franz Kafka
32. Birds, Beasts, and Bandits: 14 Days with Veerappan
33. Kohinoor: The story of world's most infamous diamond
34. The Indian Empire at War by George Morton-Jack
35. The World's War by David Olusoga
36. The Indian Contingent by Ghee Bowman
37. Moonwalking with Einstein
38. The Bell Jar
39. Sikkim: Dawn of Democracy
40. The Brave: Param Vir Chakra stories by Rachna Bisht Rawat
41. farnam street (fs) blog
42. The rules of contagion
43. Sanghi who never went to a Shakha by Rahul Roushan.
44. Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi
45. Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific
46. neetishatakam by bhratahari
47. A monster calls
48. Amusing ourselves to death
49. Neetishatakam by bhratahari
50. The Cambridge History of Japan
51. Home and the world
52. Rise of empire
53. Kali The Mother by Sister Nivedita (for book club)
54. Aaj bhi khare hain talaab (also

[Latest update, December 14: council has approved the Streamlining Rental Plan! I was expecting it to be a close vote, but in the end, only Colleen Hardwick voted against. Final comment count: 620 in support, 444 opposed. Thanks to everyone who submitted a comment!]

Vancouver city council is making a critical decision next Tuesday November 2: deciding whether to approve or reject a proposed Streamlining Rental policy, which would make it easier to build more rental housing and alleviate our musical-chairs problem. You can submit comments online (subject: Streamlining Rental), or sign up to speak at the public hearing by phone.

When you submit comments online, council gets a copy of everyone's comments, along with a count of those supporting the change and those opposed. It'd be helpful for them to know that lots of people are paying attention.

You can read the comments submitted so far.

Background info:

Lack of housing in Greater Vancouver, especially rental housing, is driving up housing costs and making us poorer. We've got a huge mismatch between jobs and housing: basically we're adding jobs faster than we're adding housing. It's like musical chairs, with lower-income renters getting pushed out, or worse, into poverty and homelessness.

High housing costs make us poorer, by lowering our real incomes. I can't count the number of people who say that they have a six-figure income, but in Vancouver they still feel poor. Everyone feels stretched to the limit. There's no way they can pay for higher property tax or a parking permit. Even long-time homeowners feel like they're being pushed out: the only way they're going to benefit from their massive gains on paper is if they sell and move elsewhere.

When rents are high, people want to build more rental housing. Right now the bottleneck is that each and every rental project requires a rezoning, which means time-consuming closed-door negotiations with city staff, followed by a public hearing with vocal opposition from people worried about neighbourhood impacts, and ratification by city council.

A majority on city council almost always vo

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

any suggestions for books with themes of aging and dying? similar to Love in the Time of Cholera or One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

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Update: Postponed to December 14.

Background: "It's easier to elect a pope than to approve a small apartment building in the city of Vancouver." Right now rental housing in Vancouver is scarce and expensive - it's like musical chairs. If passed, the proposed Streamlining Rental Plan will make it easier and faster to build six-storey rental apartment buildings on certain major streets, where four-storey condos are already legal. This would be a significant step in the right direction. We need more rental housing to create more vacancies and bring down rents.

After hearing from more than 100 speakers over about 12 hours, council is scheduled to meet at 9:30 this morning to hold a debate (really just reading prepared statements) and vote. YouTube video stream.

City council is divided, with four consistent Yes votes in favour of more housing (Kennedy Stewart, Christine Boyle, Lisa Dominato, Melissa De Genova), three consistent No votes (Jean Swanson, Adriane Carr, Colleen Hardwick), and four Maybes (Sarah Kirby-Yung, Michael Wiebe, Rebecca Bligh, Pete Fry).

I'll update this post once we have the result.

Looks like the vote isn't happening until later in the meeting. They're starting with a Metro Vancouver long-range plan update. Meeting agenda.

Update: The decision has been postponed to December 14. The council meeting agenda was too full to get through it today, and the agenda for the next meeting is full as well. I guess this means both supporters and opponents will have a few more weeks to make their arguments to the public.