Reviewer Bani Sodermark. Bani has a Ph.D in mathematical physics and has been a teacher of physics and mathematics at the university level in both India and Sweden. For the last decade, her interests have been spirituality, healthy living and self-development. She has written a number of reviews on Amazon. Bani is a mother to two children.
Follow Here To Purchase Louise: Amended
Author: Louise Krug
ISBN-13:
978-1-936787-01-2
Publisher: Black Balloon Publishing
What
happens when an attractive, twenty two year old woman who is blessed
with very loving parents, a caring and attentive boyfriend, gets
afflicted with a debilitating condition that renders her right side
unusable, on the very first day of her glamour filled, well paying
job? This is what happened to Louise Krug on the morning of the
first day after her job assignment, of doing a story on Britney
Spears. As Louise Krug herself puts it, “If I believed in God, I
might say that what happened next saved me from a trivial life of
empty goals and frivolous dreams. But I don’t believe in
God.”
Howsoever frivolous Louise might have been before her
malady, this book of hers rebuts any such conclusion. This book is an
account of her spiritual journey through a very traumatic physical
condition. We begin with the incident, how it took place, how her
parents and boyfriend Claude pitched in to help, the doctors’
reactions, the surgeries and follow up treatment she received and
finally, her journey to recovery and a life as normal as possible
within the existing physical constraints. We get to see intimate
details of Louise’s life, to meet her separated parents and their
respective partners, her brother, Tom and his girlfriend and her now
ex boyfriend Claude, among others, and other meaningful events of her
life that have a bearing on this intensely demanding journey.
The
narrative is skillfully written, it hovers disjointedly between the
active and passive voices, so we get to live snapshots of moments in
time. The active voice is Louise’s take on the issue at the moment,
presenting more details of her version of the situation, it has been
written in the first person. The passive voice describes what the
other members of the caregiving team were going through, it is
written with Louise, in the third person. This form of narration
renders to this book, an other worldly holographic quality, we get
the entire picture in well chosen bits and pieces, leaving the rest
of the details to our imagination. Some of these moments, especially
those in the early part of the book, appear uncannily real, because
each small fragment is recorded, as usually happens when navigating
through challenging events. This form of writing makes the book
an easy as well as a compulsive read, the reader’s interest is held
till the end.
All in all, an interesting and very readable
book which would appeal to anyone going through trying times. Even
though there are no mystical epiphanies recorded, it does not seem as
if they are needed to make the book more of a page turner. A book
that can be read by all, young and old.
I recommend this book
strongly to all readers of bookpleasures.com.