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I arrived in Cape Town late afternoon and have nothing to do tonight - feeling very useless/unpopular/lonely. I went for a walk and saw some cute squirrels - we don't see/have them where I live. Aside from a bit of prep I need to do for the 3 days in the office, I plan on reading more of the tagged book, which I was enjoying on the plane.

#roll100 pick for April. @PuddleJumper

#manicmonday #letterE @CBee
@The_Penniless_Author

📖 Elizabeth is Missing
✒ Bernadine Evaristo
🎞 Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
🎤 Empire of the Sun
🎶 Empty Rooms (Gary Moore)

Elizabeth is Missing is an excellent book and gives a realistic portrayal of dementia.

Empty Rooms is one of my favourite songs of all time 💙

Update: Oh noooo, I forgot Eleanor Oliphant...

I still think about this one sometimes.
#Alphabetgame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

From a Little Free Library a little while back.

I don‘t remember when or why this book made it to my shelves, and now that I‘ve read it, my loss of memory here is fitting. Sad, yet fascinating to consider a woman with dementia confusing a current situation with a traumatic event from her long ago past - particularly when the caretakers of her 82 year-old self have little knowledge of who she really was in your youth. The mystery wrapped inside this was interesting, as well.

This is so far out of my genre and I suppose could be triggering for some. A great read. The story is told by Maude who is loosing her memory and having some dementia. Her sister went missing when Maude was young and now she believes her best friend is missing. As she tries to find her friend, it keeps bringing up memories of the time her sister disappeared.

Really enjoyed this intriguing book. Whilst there‘s no actual diagnosis for Maud, it is an overall good read.

Wow - Glenda Jackson‘s performance!!!! Definitely recommend watching.

I didn‘t realize the film was based on a novel until I looked it up after viewing, thinking it had a “bookish” quality.

Maud is convinced that her best friend, Elizabeth, is missing. But Maud has dementia and no one believes her. This book depicts Maud‘s disease very well - both her confusion and the frustrations that Maud and those around her experience. As we get more of Maud‘s story, told in two different timelines, we learn that Elizabeth isn‘t the person she is desperately looking for.

#bookspin #bookspinbingo
#pop21 #bookaboutforgetting

My current read. I made good progress with it today!

#boundtogetherjune #bestfriends

Thanks for the fun #manicmonday #LetterE @JoScho 💜💜💜

1.Elizabeth missing
2. Invisible man
3. magical beginnings Enchanted life
4. Laughing gas
5.A time to dance
6. The day I stopped drinking milk

#booked2020 #winter

it was my #doublespin, I finished this prior to my #bookspin 😀A poignant story where the struggle of an old lady with dementia is beautifully portrayed . oh ! I love the way it is written. The best part was the story shifts between the two time zones but connects so well. Initially I felt it slow read but later couldn‘t put it down. 4⭐️

@TheAromaofBooks

#booked2020 #millenialauthor

⭐️ love physical books but now getting used to e-books as well
⭐️Amazon and local book shops
⭐️Yes, although I am not good at it 🤨
⭐️Audible
⭐️Done!

@laurenslibrary #thursdaysurvey

This book just didn‘t quite work for me. It‘s billed as a mystery but isn‘t really. It‘s more a portrait of a woman with dementia. It should be compelling but just came across to me as redundant and frustrating, especially when it was revealed what the author was hiding from the reader. Just too clunky for me.

#BookReport My daughter has just moved back home from Dublin ..we are temporarily not empty-nesters anymore !! Hence my Litsy absence ! My house is full to the rafters 🙄( only pretending to give out )
However reading time has gone to zero
Still reading State of Wonder 😬what 😳!
And watching telly- Elizabeth is Missing - with daughter & boyfriend ... Ofcorse 😳🤣
Elizabeth is excellent - must look up more books by this author -
👍🏻❤️

Just saw a trailer for a bbc adaptation of this book staring Glenda Jackson. A glimpse of her performance has made it a must see for me. She is an amazing actress and I suspect that she has been given a role worthy of her. Fingers crossed.

I saw the end coming but not the twist. Even though some people might consider it obvious.

I did not love everything about the book, in the middle I was a tiny bit bored, but guys – the description of a life with Alzheimer‘s. 😱 I have no experience but I believe every word the 28-year-old author wrote down.

A book that resonates. A book to remember.

Strong, strong recommendation‼️

Thank you @Come-read-with-me for the tag. 😃

1) Difficult … At the moment it‘s

• everything that makes me not feel cold.
• lying down, stretching, so my muscles relax.
• If I have enough energy left: a good book to read (because that‘s different to listening to audiobooks) with hot chocolate or dark and full red wine.

2) Blessings and a huge amount of relaxing energy to @Sarah83 @PickwickPlockPlock and @ReadingOverSleeping

#MoonReflections

If I don‘t get to start “Rebecca” today, I decided to kind of reward myself with finishing this audiobook. There‘s not much left of it, an hour maybe.

I no longer feel like the story turned into a crime case. It found its way back to Maud.

Also, I don‘t share the impression that, at the end, the reader doesn‘t know anything valuable about where Elizabeth is. Well, it‘s not in detail said what happened but you clearly get some ideas.

⭐⭐⭐½
This book was great, hilarious in parts and heart wrenching in others.

I think, I already hit the halfway mark in this. I can‘t tell exactly because I did some audiocooking again, tonight.

Yes, I still like the story but at the moment I am a bit tired of the passages set in the past because the story told therein more and more develops into a crime story. And for a crime story it‘s, in my eyes, badly told, even though I can‘t say what exactly the badly told elements consist in.

A bit more than an hour into this.
It‘s very well done. And that‘s the reason why it‘s good to stay turned on it. Walks down Maud‘s memory lane and her present are not knowable immediately. So you lose track when pausing too often.

I completely empathise with Maud. It must be really awful to lose one‘s memory and also the activities of one‘s daily life _and_ to sometimes know this. To kind of be a spectator of how one‘s abilities desert oneself.

⬆️⬆️⬆️ I gave it a quick listen up on few hours ago and already love, how Katharina Thalbach, a German actress, is reading it. Her pitch of voice fits so perfectly.

I‘m sure, this will be great company for my dinner now. #LitsyPartyOfOne

“How would you feel if no one believed you anymore? And if you‘re not sure if you can still believe yourself? That‘s how Maud feels, who suffers from Alzheimer‘s and who misses her girlfriend. In this fascinating novel, together with Maud, we embark on the search for the disappeared Elizabeth and experience at first hand how helpless and vulnerable Maud is facing herself and her environment.”

A good story.

I absolutely loved this book. The main character, Maud, has dementia, and her friends, family, carers and the police all dismiss her concerns about her friend Elizabeth as nothing more than the ramblings of a confused old lady. But Maud knows there‘s more to it, and that Elizabeth really is #Missing. Touching on the difficulties and coping strategies of people with dementia, this book is beautifully written, and worth a read.

#AyUpAugust

I enjoyed this! Maud has dementia and nobody listens when she tells them her friend has gone missing. But is it really Elizabeth she is fretting about? With moments of great poignancy and flashes of humour, Healey still allows this to be a dark tale at heart: it's never twee (it's no "My Grandmother..."). There is necessarily a fair amount of repetition at sentence level, but I rather liked the reverberations of birds, lipstick, marrows and all!

#libraryhaul
I'd reserved the tagged book: the others were sheer opportunism! 😀

A woman in mid-stage dementia believes her friend to be missing, and sets about to find her - while also trying to keep the details straight from the case of her sister who went missing in childhood. I loved this one so much. The author brilliantly captured the tangles of memory and thought in a brain damaged by disease but struggling to make sense of it all, and having a great mystery (or 2) alongside made it unputdownable.

It really makes you feel what it would be like when one gets old and is the victim of cognitive impairment.
Also allows one to see who Maud was before she aged. Sad yet with moments of immense joy. Definitely not a read for everyone

I bought this so long ago and it got stuck in a random tbr pile. This was completely not what I was expecting! It was so thought provoking and poignant. As someone that often works with people with dementia it really helped me to see things from their point of view. The actual mystery was fairly basic and obvious but I really enjoyed this book and I definitely recommend it

A very well written. Sensitively and beautifully done with good character development. Would really recommend.

A very well written. Sensitively and beautifully done with good character development. Would really recommend.

📖 Elizabeth is Missing
👱‍♀️ Emma Healey
🎥 Elysium
🍳 Eggs 🥚🥚🥚

Thank you @JoScho #ManicMonday ! 😊😊😊

This is a tough one to keep reading!
I'm halfway through and the repetitive cycle of Maud asking herself and everyone she comes in contact with "where is Elizabeth?" while struggling to remember anything that is going on around her is BRUTAL.
My grandmother has dementia. Knowing this is probably how she goes through parts of her days is painful to me.
This is the 2nd time I've attempted to read this, so I'm determined to stick with it! ?

I really liked the premise of this book - mixing suspense with a woman with dementia. The problem was that it got extremely repetitive in parts and I got a bit annoyed/lost interest. Overall, it was a good story.

Highly recommended, I really enjoyed this quick read. Providing a detailed and vivid insight into the mind of an elderly woman with dementia was both interesting and amusing at points which leads me to rate this book 4 stars.

My full review of this book is on my blog if you want to learn more! 📚

This novel was truly heartbreaking. I‘ve never read a novel from the perspective of an elderly person succumbing to dementia. Trust me—it‘s no easy read at all, but it‘s worth it.

Random find at the library

Maud's sister disappears after WWII and in her later years, battling dementia, she struggles to separate her memories from her friend's disappearance. Told from a unique point of view, the repetition in the book is hard to get through and I suggest audio. It is a heartbreaking account of what goes on in a person's mind as dementia robs them of so much. Davina Porter gives Maud such a wonderful personality!

Been listening to this story about a woman with dementia who is getting lost in memories, thinking of a long lost sister and a friend whom she thinks is missing. It's an interesting take on what dementia takes away from people and how hard small life tasks become. Excited to see how this turns out!

Many parts felt very repetitive, which made it difficult to get interested in. I was interested enough to see how it all came together, so I made it to the end, but was relieved to be done.

Tonight‘s reading digs. Dorm room at a school in Nanjing, China. I‘ve got my own little night light and the heater on to dry my washing :)

Just started this. Anyone read it? Tell you what I‘m enjoying at the moment - Kindle‘s WhisperSync. I‘ve read my last couple of books with it. Sometimes reading, sometimes listening, sometimes following along in the text while being read to. And all on my phone. It‘s pretty cool.

#FreakyFriday book 5 from @zeljka -

THIS. BOOK. IS. AWESOME. My fave of the bunch so far.

It's told from the point of view of an elderly women named Maud who has dementia - she is losing her memory, but she can still remember that her best friend Elizabeth is missing.

I cannot stress how deep in Maud's head you get due to the great writing. I was on the edge of my seat - perfect blend of mystery and fiction.

@monalyisha @Clwojick