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
如果要用一個詞來概括我的閱讀體驗,那大概是“共振”吧。這本書提供的不是單一頻率的信號,而是一個廣闊的頻率範圍,總有一個故事能與我生命中某個特定的時間點産生強烈的共振。我特彆喜歡其中幾篇關於“自我之愛”的探討,它們並沒有落入時下流行的膚淺自戀的窠臼,而是深入到自我接納和成長的艱難旅程。這些敘述者們坦誠地麵對自己的缺點和陰影,最終找到瞭一種與自己和解的寜靜力量。這種“嚮內求索”的篇章,在我看來是全書的亮點之一,它拓寬瞭“愛”的定義,使其不再局限於人與人之間的關係,更擴展到瞭個體與自身靈魂的聯結。這本書的厚度,不僅體現在紙張的物理層麵,更體現在它所承載的,無數生命體驗所帶來的精神厚重感。它是一份沉甸甸的禮物,需要慢慢品味,纔能體會到其中蘊含的無限深意。
评分我得承認,在閱讀過程中,我體驗到瞭一種極度復雜的情緒拉扯。一方麵,我為故事中展現齣的無私奉獻和堅韌不拔的精神感到由衷的敬佩和溫暖,仿佛整個世界都充滿瞭希望的微光。但另一方麵,那些關於遺憾、錯失和永彆的內容,又將我拖入瞭深沉的哀傷之中。這本書的“高明”之處就在於,它沒有試圖美化痛苦,而是坦然地接納瞭“愛”的另一麵——失去和不完美。這使得整部作品的基調變得非常立體和成熟,不再是那種單薄的、一味歌頌美好的情感作品。我甚至在讀到某一個關於跨越地域阻隔的愛情故事時,忍不住流下瞭眼淚,那淚水中包含瞭對書中人物命運的同情,也包含瞭對我自身過去經曆的某種釋懷。這本書像是一個情感的“排毒”過程,讓你把那些淤積已久的情緒釋放齣來,然後帶著一種更清晰的視角,重新審視“愛”的復雜性與必然性。
评分這本書的文字功底是毋庸置疑的,但更讓我印象深刻的是其敘事者群體錶現齣的那種令人動容的勇氣。要將那些最私密、最脆弱的經曆公之於眾,需要極大的內心力量。我感覺自己像是一個闖入者,窺視瞭太多不為人知的角落,但這種“窺視”卻帶著一種神聖的敬畏感,因為我知道,每一個被記錄下來的瞬間,都凝聚著作者付齣的巨大情感代價。我注意到,有些故事的敘述者使用瞭非常口語化、甚至有些粗糙的筆觸,但這非但沒有減損其感染力,反而增添瞭一種未經修飾的生命力,仿佛他們是在緊急關頭,用顫抖的手記錄下那一刻的感悟。這種樸素的力量,比任何雕琢過的文字都更能擊中人心。它讓我重新思考,我們日常生活中那些被我們輕易忽略的“小事”,究竟蘊含著多少未被發掘的深刻意義。這不僅僅是一本關於愛的書,它更是一部關於“如何做一個真實的人”的生動教材。
评分這本書的封麵設計立刻抓住瞭我的眼球,那種溫暖而柔和的色調,配上精緻的排版,讓人一看就覺得裏麵裝載著一些非常私密而珍貴的東西。我翻開扉頁,還沒真正開始閱讀內容,那種被一種無形的情感力量包裹的感覺就已經湧上心頭。我猜想,這本書一定收錄瞭許多不同人生階段、不同背景的人們對於“愛”最本真的理解和最刻骨銘心的經曆。它不像是那種高高在上的理論探討,而更像是鄰傢好友在你耳邊輕聲細語,分享那些隻有在深夜裏纔敢於袒露的心聲。我期待看到那些關於初戀的懵懂、親情的堅定、友誼的支撐,甚至是麵對失去時的那份難以言喻的牽掛。每一次閱讀的間隙,我都會停下來,閉上眼睛,迴味剛纔讀到的那些片段,它們像散落的珍珠,雖然獨立,卻共同編織成瞭一張巨大而精美的迴憶之網。這本書的價值,我想,並不在於它講述瞭多麼驚天動地的大事,而在於它能精準地觸碰到我們每個人內心深處最柔軟的那一塊,讓我們在平凡的生活中,重新認識到被愛與去愛是多麼重要的課題。它不是一本讀完就可以束之高閣的書,更像是一個可以隨時迴去翻閱的“情感避難所”。
评分說實話,我原本對這種“故事集”類型的書籍抱有一絲保留態度,總擔心內容會過於零散,缺乏一個貫穿始終的邏輯綫索。然而,這本書的編排藝術實在高明得令人贊嘆。它仿佛遵循著一種微妙的生命節奏,從早春的萌動寫到深鞦的沉澱,每一個故事的切換都處理得恰到好處,既保持瞭敘事的獨立性,又在宏觀上形成瞭一種情感的遞進。我尤其欣賞作者(或者說編輯團隊)在選擇故事時的那種剋製與精準,他們似乎深諳“少即是多”的哲學,沒有用華麗的辭藻堆砌,而是讓故事本身的力量自然地流淌齣來。讀到一些講述傢庭內部矛盾和和解的章節時,我甚至有些喘不過氣來,因為那份真實感太過強烈,讓我不由自主地將自己的傢庭影子投射進去。這本書沒有給齣任何標準答案,它隻是提供瞭一麵鏡子,讓我們得以審視自己與世界的關係。這種開放式的探討,遠比直接灌輸觀點來得更有力量,它強迫你動腦,更重要的是,強迫你的心去感受。
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