So, now I'm on to a really uplifting book: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. This is the true story of how in December 2003, the author coped after her husband died suddenly and before her eyes from a coronary while her daughter, Quintana, was hospitalized and in a medically induced coma as a result of pneumonia and septic shock. Quintana eventually recovered after 4 weeks only to collapse two months later where she underwent brain surgery to relieve a massive hematoma. The novel was also made into a one-woman Broadway play which is currently running in New York, starring Vanessa Redgrave. Though it isn't going to be a "feel-good" book, I'm sure it will make me glad that I have what I have and remind me that life can change on a dime and you are never prepared. (Tragically, right before this book was published in August 2006, Quintana died).
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