LET'S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME: REVIEW AND BONUS ENTRIES

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LET'S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME
A Memoir of Friendship
BY GAIL CALDWELL

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Stunninggorgeous....intense as good as moving.A book of such crystalline law which it makes a heart ache.
--The Boston Globe

[Lets Take a Long Way Home] left me greatly moved.Caldwells biggest achievement is to climb above [death as good as loss] to report both a really many appropriate which women can be together as good as a changed things they can, if they wish, give back to a single another: power, humor, adore as good as self-respect.
--Julie Myerson, The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice

[A] pleasing book.The losing isnt a exceptional partial of this story; everyone loses something, sooner or later. The consternation lies in anticipating it in a first place.
--Salon

A reverence to a enduring power of friendship.You can shelve Lets Take a Long Way Homenext to The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didions withering discourse about losing her father to heart failure. But thats presumption it makes it to your shelf: This is a book youll wish to share with your own necessary pillars of life, as Caldwell refers to her nearest as good as dearest.A poetic gift to readers.
--Washington Post

High-spirited as good as heartrending! .
--People

[Their] relationship nurtured as good as desirous Caldwell as good as Knapp, as good as in reading about it, you feel enriched as well.
--Chicago Tribune, Editors Choice








MY REVIEW:I so really most enjoyed LETS TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME by Gail Caldwell. This discourse honors Caroline Knapp, Caldwell's many appropriate friend, as good as is so beautifully written which you would examination sentences over just to listen to a lyrical sound of a difference in my head. Both Gail as good as Caroline were writers who common a adore of their dogs as good as swimming as good as rowing, as good as of course, any other. They just were loyal essence mates as good as they completed any other. It was late in Carolyns life which she tied together though for a many of a book, they had any alternative so their lives revolved around their schedules as good as idiosyncrasies.

Theirs was a loyalty in which they common a good as good as a bad as good as which included addiction. They both enjoyed drinking as good as Gail talks about her ethanol obsession as good as how she recovered before to becoming friends with Caroline. Caroline had written about her battle with ethanol in DRINKING: A LOVE STORY. Carolines alternative obsession was to cigarette smoking. She loved to fume even though Gail was regularly after her to quit. They additionally both came from rsther than severe families as good as so they common which as well.

The walks with their dogs is where their loyalty began as good as where it blossomed. These walks grew longer as they longed for to outlay some-more time together as good as thus got to know any alternative better. They would suffer walking as good as personification with their dogs as good as after they had any left home, speak on a phone so which nonetheless they werent totally contingent on any other, they were certainly l! ost when a single of them wasnt available. Set essentially in Cambridge, Caldwells skill during making a environment a partial of their lives as good as major partial of a book is so really good done. She describes a places they spent time in with such grace as good as utterance which you can picture every place they were.

Their loyalty is sadly put to a ultimate exam when Caroline is diagnosed with lung cancer as good as not given much, if any, hope. Carolines genocide is harmful to Gail, as a single would obviously suspect. However, a approach she wrote about it was poignant, as good as her display isnt morbid though rsther than moving as it gets to a heart of a matteras it will additionally get to your heart. Following Carolines death, Gail must sense to adjust to life with a critical partial missing. That dull space was palpable as good as spending time with her dog was a closest she would come to feeling during assent as she remembered a times they had all common together. When Gail after has to deal with her beloved dog aging as good as showing signs of mortality, you thought how really unhappy as good as difficult it must have been to experience which detriment without her dear crony there to await her.

I dont consider you cried as most reading a book like you did with this a single in a prolonged time. Yet, it didnt leave me unhappy as most as it was fortifying because of Caldwells pleasing writing. It was a reverence to her crony as good as to their adore of their animals. you came away from LETS TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME realizing how right Gail was as she comes opposite with how it is not a bad thing to feel as good as adore deeply. Our inner strength will be tested though it is a single of a many appropriate things which can occur as you know you have been really alive as good as which you were blessed to have had someone so special in our lives.


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