Review of It'll Be Alright, Maggie Jiggs
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Review of It'll Be Alright, Maggie Jiggs
[Following is a volunteer review of "It'll Be Alright, Maggie Jiggs" by Karen Thiel.]
It'll Be Alright, Maggie Jiggs by Karen Thiel felt more like a conversation than reading a book, and that's what made it so easy to get through. I give this book a rating of 4 out of 5 stars, only due to minor typos and a few too many minor profanities, but it really is a marvelous book.
Disclaimer that there will be mentions of death in this review and that the book itself warns of profanities and the topic that it talks about could be sensitive too. I believe this was the first of the two reasons why the book didn't reach a perfect score, the amount of profanities, but I didn't mind them much, due to the book feeling like a conversation, as I mentioned above. Also, I kept running into some editorial mistakes regarding ellipsis, but other than that the book is amazingly edited.
I have always heard that mourning is different for every person, that everyone reacts differently, and sometimes it takes more or less time to accept that your loved ones are no longer with you. While reading this short book, even though I have not been through the loss of my mom, just like the author did, I could still connect with the story, with the pain and mourning. And even though it is a book, as I mentioned above, it does feel like I was listening to what the author had to say about the process of losing Mom, the endless visits to the doctors, and the deterioration of the body and the mind.
Towards the end of the book, there's a chapter that I would catalog as my favorite: "Remember... Mom," and it is a precious walk from infancy to the end of Mom's life. Mom always said that things would be alright, and the last couple of sentences are the author telling Mom that things would be alright, until they weren't anymore.
There is a quote that I always think about when the death of a person seems imminent: "Death is so sure of its victory, it gives us an entire life of advantage." As far as I know, the author of it is unknown, but it holds so much truth in it. The book lets you see a little of that, where the author and Mom end up doing a couple of things from Mom's bucket list, and we should live life as if every day was our last on Earth, because it might as well be with the current situation in so many places.
In conclusion, it is a really great book in its nature and the topic that is developed in the pages. And if you, the reader of this review, are experiencing the loss of someone close, not necessarily your mom or your dad, know that you are not alone, and in the end, time cures everything... And if it doesn't, at least it will hurt less.
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It'll Be Alright, Maggie Jiggs
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It'll Be Alright, Maggie Jiggs by Karen Thiel felt more like a conversation than reading a book, and that's what made it so easy to get through. I give this book a rating of 4 out of 5 stars, only due to minor typos and a few too many minor profanities, but it really is a marvelous book.
Disclaimer that there will be mentions of death in this review and that the book itself warns of profanities and the topic that it talks about could be sensitive too. I believe this was the first of the two reasons why the book didn't reach a perfect score, the amount of profanities, but I didn't mind them much, due to the book feeling like a conversation, as I mentioned above. Also, I kept running into some editorial mistakes regarding ellipsis, but other than that the book is amazingly edited.
I have always heard that mourning is different for every person, that everyone reacts differently, and sometimes it takes more or less time to accept that your loved ones are no longer with you. While reading this short book, even though I have not been through the loss of my mom, just like the author did, I could still connect with the story, with the pain and mourning. And even though it is a book, as I mentioned above, it does feel like I was listening to what the author had to say about the process of losing Mom, the endless visits to the doctors, and the deterioration of the body and the mind.
Towards the end of the book, there's a chapter that I would catalog as my favorite: "Remember... Mom," and it is a precious walk from infancy to the end of Mom's life. Mom always said that things would be alright, and the last couple of sentences are the author telling Mom that things would be alright, until they weren't anymore.
There is a quote that I always think about when the death of a person seems imminent: "Death is so sure of its victory, it gives us an entire life of advantage." As far as I know, the author of it is unknown, but it holds so much truth in it. The book lets you see a little of that, where the author and Mom end up doing a couple of things from Mom's bucket list, and we should live life as if every day was our last on Earth, because it might as well be with the current situation in so many places.
In conclusion, it is a really great book in its nature and the topic that is developed in the pages. And if you, the reader of this review, are experiencing the loss of someone close, not necessarily your mom or your dad, know that you are not alone, and in the end, time cures everything... And if it doesn't, at least it will hurt less.
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It'll Be Alright, Maggie Jiggs
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