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Let's Take the Long Way Home
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship | Gail Caldwell
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Walking the woods of New England and rowing on the Charles River, these two private, self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife. Lets Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of the profound transformations that come from intimate connectionand it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more. RandomHouseReadersCircle.com BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Gail Caldwell's New Life, No Instructions.
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This a memoir of the power of friendship, about grief and mourning, and how you can go on after losing somebody you love. Recommended.

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Cinfhen This memoir sounds awesome!!! Thanks for posting & sharing #stacked 5y
Mdargusch Doesn‘t get more perfect than this! 5y
Reviewsbylola This sounds heartbreaking but uplifting. 5y
emilyhaldi Quite apropos ☺️ 5y
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Dolly
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Yes, this was a tearjerker. A realistic travel through a friendship of two adult flawed women that never felt manipulative. Caroline and Gail were both writers and were bonded by their dogs, nature, and the water.
This just missed being a so-so rating.

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Dolly
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Next up, adult female friendship. < 200 pages

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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As Gail Caldwell so eloquently stated: "We never get over great losses; we absorb them and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures." This is my grandmother whom I think of every day in my tender care of the elderly. I loved, loved, loved this book! Its the perfect testimony, so beautifully stated, about life's most important gifts including love, friendship, attachment, intimacy and on and on. Everyone needs to read it, I think.

Leelee.reads ❤️ 7y
SharonGoforth Lovely 💕 7y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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"It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too."-Gail Caldwell...Time for one of my favorite kind of books...

mcipher This sounds lovely and sad. 7y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I really love it so far. @mcipher 7y
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Pulling my stack together for this weekend's #24in48readathon - add to this audio and ebooks. I always choose too many so this time I'm trying not to go overboard. LOL. #24in48 #thebibliophage #readathon #bookish

My opening answers are posted here: http://thebibliophage.com/24in48-readathon-july-2017/

goodbyefrancie This book is among my favorites. 💔💔💔 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @goodbyefrancie It was a gift from @kspenmoll, which means I have two great recommendations now. 👏🏻👏🏻 7y
Onlaughterandliteracy It's good to have options!! I should add a BOTM book to catch up. Hmm... 7y
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kspenmoll Enjoy the #24in28readathon- cannot participate, a wedding & a day trip to Providence this weekend but will read when I can! 📚 (edited) 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Onlaughterandliteracy Yes, options are awesome! 👏🏻👏🏻 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @kspenmoll Have a great weekend! I won't get 24 hours but trying for as much as possible. 7y
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This was definitely one that got to me. #riotgrams #bookthatmadeyoucry I have bought and given this book as a gift so many times.

Blaire I want to read this - read Caroline knapp's drinking: a love story several years ago. Interested to see from the other perspective. 7y
Blaire Oh just realized I have read this, but my copy has a different cover. Read drinking a love story after reading this one. And yes definitely a #tearjerker 7y
goodbyefrancie @Blaire I read Drinking, too. I love stories of families and friendships, stories about people who could just be the ordinary person living next door. Both really good! 7y
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Dolly
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That moment when you spread out your loot from the annual Friends of the Library book sale and it further complicates your what do I read next dilemma. Not sure whether I'll read Pollan again, I buy his books to give them away and hope they are as meaningful to others as they are to me.

merelybookish Lots of goodies! 7y
queerbookreader The Cuckoo's Calling!!!! And I'm not just saying it because it's Rowling, I promise. The series is phenomenally written with really marvelous plots and characters. This one is about a supermodel who ~mysteriously died~ and her brother hires the main protag to figure out what really happened. It's spooky shit 👻 7y
cathysaid I agree with @lemonlime799 as far as Rowling/Galbraith. I'm not a Harry Potter fan but I love this series by Galbraith. 7y
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britt_brooke Nice! 👏🏻 7y
LeahBergen Read 84, Charing Cross Road RIGHT NOW! 😍 7y
Dolly @LeahBergen it looks like a fast read so it should be an easy palate cleanser. Thanks for the comment. 🙂 7y
Dolly @lemonlime799 @cathysaid During my preliminary perusal I couldn't place the author & title although it sounded familiar so I quite by accident 😉 put it sideways in a pile to pull out later if it was still there. 7y
Graciouswarriorprincess Great picks! 7y
hgrimes Nice haul! 7y
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KimKeel
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I love Gail Caldwell's honesty in this emotionally bare memoir. I, too, lost my 'chosen' sister - to melanoma - when she was just 52. Gail's words perfectly captured the pain and grief I experienced. Reading someone else's similar journey so beautifully articulated made me feel 'less alone.'