{"id":3954,"date":"2015-10-04T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2015-10-04T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T19:56:11","slug":"still-alice-by-lisa-genova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3954","title":{"rendered":"Still Alice by Lisa Genova"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3973\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1467175\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3973\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Still-Alice-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Still Alice\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Still-Alice-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Still-Alice.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What a powerful book on such a tough subject.\u00a0 You hear about\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and you think older people.\u00a0 This book, which\u00a0has also been made into a movie,\u00a0tells the story of a woman who is at the height of her career as a college professor\u00a0when she\u00a0is struck with this disease at the age of 50.\u00a0 The author provides a really insightful and intuitive account\u00a0of the world of\u00a0early onset\u00a0Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease, and how it takes your whole identity away. \u00a0It was really sad to read, but I finished it in\u00a0three short days. \u00a0Definitely worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a powerful book on such a tough subject.\u00a0 You hear about\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and you think older people.\u00a0 This book, which\u00a0has also been made into a movie,\u00a0tells the story of a woman who is at the height of her career as a college professor\u00a0when she\u00a0is struck with this disease at the age of 50.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3954\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Alice by Lisa Genova<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}