`M rs Hibbert was a Friend." The short sentence beginning Margaret Forster's compassionate new novel Is There Anything You Want? encompasses the heart of her story. Set in a northern town, it revolves around several women connected to each other and to the same hospital, through either ...
I knew it was a story about a mom having cancer but the way the author wrote it was magical. The complex emotions this little boy felt for his mom and she for him, jumped off the page and you can’t help but cry. I wasn’t sad. The love and desire to fix his mom and make ...
Nikki Giovanni, Treasured Poet, Dead at 81She died of complications from lung cancer. By Alejandra Gularte best of 2024 Dec. 6, 2024 The Best Comedy Books of 2024The most delightful, thought-provoking, educational, and just all in all funny. By Brian Boone paws up lil zazzters Dec....
Paper and ink have created a lasting connection between James and me. The connection has made me a better person, if only for having laughed so much and indulged in so much pleasurable company through his letter. And isn’t that what we say about our friends, that they have enriched our ...
Sylvia Wright died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 64. She published no other books after this, though she left an unfinished biography of her great aunt Melusina Fay Peirce, wife of the philopher and mathematician Charles Sanders Peirce. Oh, and a shark-infested rice pudding is the punch...
“Ramakrishnan puts together all the evidence we have about the molecular and cellular biology of ageing and of cancer—and how this relates to mortality, and makes a very interesting point that I had never thought about, which is that there is a tension in the way our cells work in holdin...
After being diagnosed withcancerin 1999, García Márquez wrote thememoirVivir para contarla(2002;Living to Tell the Tale), which focuses on his first 30 years. He returned to fiction withMemoria de mis putas tristes(2004;Memories of My Melancholy Whores), a novel about a lonely man who fina...
After having two sons, she and Proud divorced and she took over running the theater on her own. Though a critical success, the work took a toll and in her late thirties, Bargate developed cancer. Bob Hoskins, who performed and wrote for Soho Poly, remarked to a reporter at the time, ...
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh is the neurosurgeon’s account of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer shortly after his retirement. If you have read Marsh’s first two books about his career, Do No Harm and Admissions, then you will know that he doesn’t su...
The DMV clerk asked CC why she was having SC’s name removed from her car’s title. CC told her that SC had died, and the clerk replied, “Oh, I’m so sorry – there but for the grace of god go I.”