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Dianne Touchell

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Creepy & Maud (2012) 50 eksemplarer
A Small Madness (2015) 43 eksemplarer
Forgetting Foster (2016) 15 eksemplarer
Sticky Notes (2018) 14 eksemplarer

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Trigger warnings: Bullying, Alzheimer's disease

6/10, looking back at it I definitely wouldn't consider this book a masterpiece anymore, it was an OK book that I've read but I appreciate it being there to raise more awareness of the devastating effects of Alzheimer's disease and this one was a sad one to read but adding a happy ending would take away from the importance of this issue. It starff with the main character Foster Sumner who is only 7 and living with his father, everything appears normal right up until a few pages into the book when he notices something is going on with his father, he ignores it at first however it gets worse as I read more of the book and the father is eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It provides a good look into what Alzheimer's is which is a disease that interferes with the brain's ability to memorise but it wasn't the most in-depth look into it ever and one would be better off actually researching this disease rather than just reading this book alone but it's a good start. Towards the last part of the book Foster's father eventually gets sent to therapy for his disease and that's basically the end of it, even though the name Foster is on the title and cover of this he was in the background most of the time and he just watched as the other major character, his father, takes the spotlight by showing me the disease that he had and I must mention that the cover itself is hard to read because of its design and the only other book similar to this is Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar. If you like sad books involving diseases pick this one or the one I mentioned earlier which revolves around a character developing dementia while all the other characters can do is just watch.… (mere)
 
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