From Library Journal This collection presents the words of more than 20 women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, along with stories from their husbands, children, parents, friends, and caregivers. Each profile offers a complete "Medical Bio" that details the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and present status of each woman. As they talk of their daily struggles with doctors, decision-making, and drugs, their words will be familiar yet alien, terrifying yet comforting to those who have the disease, those who love them, and the one in eight women who will be newly diagnosed this year. The contributors are more similar sociologically than medically, which is a drawback to this compilation. They are all white (except one), middle-class, educated women. But medically, their stories run the gamut, and that is their true value. Dr. Hugh Hogle, a breast cancer specialist partly behind this project, offers a poignant comment regarding his mother's battle with breast cancer. "It has been nineteen years.... Most of the family have almost forgotten she ever had the disease. I know she thinks about it every single day." Recommended for public library and patient education collections. (For other portraits of women with breast cancer, see Gayle Feldman's You Don't Have To Be Your Mother, LJ 2/15/94; Joyce Wadler's My Breast, LJ 9/15/92; and Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum's Cancer in Two Voices, LJ 10/1/91. 2d ed. 1996.)?Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal"Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Women with breast cancer and, occasionally, some of their family members tell of their experiences. Some focus on physical realities, and others recount the anguishing emotional shock of breast cancer diagnosis, the disease's impact on the sufferer's family and friends, and the spiritual struggles involved. From initial diagnosis through treatment, reconstruction, and metastasis, all aspects of the disease are covered, sometimes in painful detail. Uniting the diverse voices are the underlying hope, optimism, and faith that are finally found in the process of letting go. These moving essays appear in six broad topical sections: "In the Beginning," "Husbands and Wives," "Parents and Children," "Friends and Families," "Finding Sources of Strength," and "Facing Metastasized Breast Cancer." As estimates now stand, one in eight women will face breast cancer. Many of them may find solid help and solace in these testaments. Whitney Scott
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这本书的文字功底是毋庸置疑的,但更让我印象深刻的是其叙事者群体表现出的那种令人动容的勇气。要将那些最私密、最脆弱的经历公之于众,需要极大的内心力量。我感觉自己像是一个闯入者,窥视了太多不为人知的角落,但这种“窥视”却带着一种神圣的敬畏感,因为我知道,每一个被记录下来的瞬间,都凝聚着作者付出的巨大情感代价。我注意到,有些故事的叙述者使用了非常口语化、甚至有些粗糙的笔触,但这非但没有减损其感染力,反而增添了一种未经修饰的生命力,仿佛他们是在紧急关头,用颤抖的手记录下那一刻的感悟。这种朴素的力量,比任何雕琢过的文字都更能击中人心。它让我重新思考,我们日常生活中那些被我们轻易忽略的“小事”,究竟蕴含着多少未被发掘的深刻意义。这不仅仅是一本关于爱的书,它更是一部关于“如何做一个真实的人”的生动教材。
评分我得承认,在阅读过程中,我体验到了一种极度复杂的情绪拉扯。一方面,我为故事中展现出的无私奉献和坚韧不拔的精神感到由衷的敬佩和温暖,仿佛整个世界都充满了希望的微光。但另一方面,那些关于遗憾、错失和永别的内容,又将我拖入了深沉的哀伤之中。这本书的“高明”之处就在于,它没有试图美化痛苦,而是坦然地接纳了“爱”的另一面——失去和不完美。这使得整部作品的基调变得非常立体和成熟,不再是那种单薄的、一味歌颂美好的情感作品。我甚至在读到某一个关于跨越地域阻隔的爱情故事时,忍不住流下了眼泪,那泪水中包含了对书中人物命运的同情,也包含了对我自身过去经历的某种释怀。这本书像是一个情感的“排毒”过程,让你把那些淤积已久的情绪释放出来,然后带着一种更清晰的视角,重新审视“爱”的复杂性与必然性。
评分如果要用一个词来概括我的阅读体验,那大概是“共振”吧。这本书提供的不是单一频率的信号,而是一个广阔的频率范围,总有一个故事能与我生命中某个特定的时间点产生强烈的共振。我特别喜欢其中几篇关于“自我之爱”的探讨,它们并没有落入时下流行的肤浅自恋的窠臼,而是深入到自我接纳和成长的艰难旅程。这些叙述者们坦诚地面对自己的缺点和阴影,最终找到了一种与自己和解的宁静力量。这种“向内求索”的篇章,在我看来是全书的亮点之一,它拓宽了“爱”的定义,使其不再局限于人与人之间的关系,更扩展到了个体与自身灵魂的联结。这本书的厚度,不仅体现在纸张的物理层面,更体现在它所承载的,无数生命体验所带来的精神厚重感。它是一份沉甸甸的礼物,需要慢慢品味,才能体会到其中蕴含的无限深意。
评分说实话,我原本对这种“故事集”类型的书籍抱有一丝保留态度,总担心内容会过于零散,缺乏一个贯穿始终的逻辑线索。然而,这本书的编排艺术实在高明得令人赞叹。它仿佛遵循着一种微妙的生命节奏,从早春的萌动写到深秋的沉淀,每一个故事的切换都处理得恰到好处,既保持了叙事的独立性,又在宏观上形成了一种情感的递进。我尤其欣赏作者(或者说编辑团队)在选择故事时的那种克制与精准,他们似乎深谙“少即是多”的哲学,没有用华丽的辞藻堆砌,而是让故事本身的力量自然地流淌出来。读到一些讲述家庭内部矛盾和和解的章节时,我甚至有些喘不过气来,因为那份真实感太过强烈,让我不由自主地将自己的家庭影子投射进去。这本书没有给出任何标准答案,它只是提供了一面镜子,让我们得以审视自己与世界的关系。这种开放式的探讨,远比直接灌输观点来得更有力量,它强迫你动脑,更重要的是,强迫你的心去感受。
评分这本书的封面设计立刻抓住了我的眼球,那种温暖而柔和的色调,配上精致的排版,让人一看就觉得里面装载着一些非常私密而珍贵的东西。我翻开扉页,还没真正开始阅读内容,那种被一种无形的情感力量包裹的感觉就已经涌上心头。我猜想,这本书一定收录了许多不同人生阶段、不同背景的人们对于“爱”最本真的理解和最刻骨铭心的经历。它不像是那种高高在上的理论探讨,而更像是邻家好友在你耳边轻声细语,分享那些只有在深夜里才敢于袒露的心声。我期待看到那些关于初恋的懵懂、亲情的坚定、友谊的支撑,甚至是面对失去时的那份难以言喻的牵挂。每一次阅读的间隙,我都会停下来,闭上眼睛,回味刚才读到的那些片段,它们像散落的珍珠,虽然独立,却共同编织成了一张巨大而精美的回忆之网。这本书的价值,我想,并不在于它讲述了多么惊天动地的大事,而在于它能精准地触碰到我们每个人内心深处最柔软的那一块,让我们在平凡的生活中,重新认识到被爱与去爱是多么重要的课题。它不是一本读完就可以束之高阁的书,更像是一个可以随时回去翻阅的“情感避难所”。
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