My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir | 
30 book recommendations in 30 days...
Day 17: Similar to yesterday, this one really helps you think about what is most important in life, written by a woman waiting for a heart transplant. I cried so many times. IRL, I've watched my BIL deteriorate and inch closer to death waiting for a transplant (thankfully he received one in time), and also sat with a cousin as he died after a transplant. This book is a must read! #30recsin30days
pickSo good. And a fantastic title.
bailed3/5 ⭐️ I get uncomfortable when talking about medicine so this book probably just wasn‘t for me. It was an interesting look into the life of someone struggling with a serious illness. Seeing their thoughts and reactions to how others treated them was interesting.
Read my full review on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2446650648
pickTissues are a must-have accessory to this book. It absolutely wrecked me. I absolutely loved this memoir about illness, death and deep friendship. So much to consider here. Highly recommend.
Listening to this on a long drive. I expected this book to be much more about the relationships with her friends because of the title. That has been present, but very much in the background or interspersed with memories. Hearing her perspective on illness and how others react has made me rethink the way I react to people.
pickSo this is about Amy Silverstein‘s need for a second heart transplant at the age of 50. Her first transplant heart has started to fail and she and her husband Scott need to move from NYC to California. Instantly causing her friends to take action so that she will always have one of them with her during this entire period so that she is never without them. This is a wonderful tale of friendships and what they will do when they are needed #litsyAtoZ
This came in at the perfect time! I woke up and it finally came in!! Can‘t wait to get started.
pickOne of my friends since elementary school was diagnosed with breast cancer, so I asked for this book for Christmas. It‘s so hard having a sick friend and I know it‘s even harder being the one who is sick. I‘m glad we all have each other for support, but it really sucks this is happening. What a bummer review.
#decdays @Cinfhen #silverbells
One from the TBR today... from Amy Silverstein....
This sounds like a beautiful memoir... 💕
pickWonderful memoir about the power and value of friendship. Amy Silverman made it 25 years with her first heart transplant. When it began failing, she and her husband had to move from NY to LA while she waits for a donor heart. Her friends get together and come up with a calendar so that they will always have someone there to help. Late night conversations, tough moments, and shenanigans -- it's the friendship that matters.
pickI reviewed My Glory Was I Had Such Friends by Amy Silverstein on my blog this week. I talk about the book and my emotions that I had reading it 😣
www.ashsscript.com
#myglorywas #myglorywasihadsuchfriends #amysilverstein #bookreview #recommended
#TBRtemptation post 3! Recently released. Silverstein tells the story of the group of women who supported her while waiting for a heart transplant. Her shot at saving her life required uprooting to California. Her friends were there for her: Joy, Jill, Leja, Jody, Lauren, Robin, Valerie, Ann, and Jane. Creating a spreadsheet, they took turns away from jobs and family to assist in daily mundane tasks to doctor visits. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
Have you read this tear jerker yet? Breezing through.
I'm a sucker for a great memoir and this one is definitely satisfying that craving. Story is about friends who are there for you during life's challenges. This challenge is facing up to a second heart transplant and all that encompasses.Kleenex alert!
Pretty excited for all of this. Great book, an amazing pastie, and fresh veggies at the market.
Listening to this audiobook memoir about a woman suffering from donor heart failure and how her #girlfriends rally around her in amazing ways. I don't think audio is the best format for this one and may have to try it again in print. #anditsaugust
pickwow...did this memoir give me all the feels. i think i will buy copies for my closest girl friends ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am loving the Libby app. I have put a ton of books on hold. And I'm still working my way through Atlas Shrugged 🤷🏻♀️ that is a lloooooonnnggg book!! But the second half is getting so good!
#read #listen #library #libby
pickWhen Amy finds out her heart is failing 26 years after her first heart transplant 9 of her girlfriends provide her with the spreadsheet. It details when each of them will uproot their lives to be in California for her and her husband Scott as support. No day is left uncovered.
Tears in the gym, at work, in the car, and while cooking dinner. These women are powerful. I hug my girlfriends tighter now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Loving the crap out of this one, even though it makes me sob and produce excessive amounts of mucus every time I listen to part of it. #audiobookgem #amysilverstein #readerbeware #snotbomb
Started My Glory Was I Had Such Friends. Three pages in and I've already cried once. #bookfieldtrip
pickThis book is so inspiring. A must pick up for anyone needing a good hug from a great group of women.
Pretty sure this book is going to rip my heart out and stomp on it. 💗
After years of wanting and needing, I finally treated myself to the Mukherjee books. An extra book might have fallen, by complete and total accident, into the shopping cart too.
Plus! My bookmark from @ruthemmielang came too! So gorgeous!
pickAs I am writing this, I still have tears in my eyes. This is one of the most beautiful books I have read and by far the best book of 2017. You will laugh a lot and you will cry a lot more. This story takes a whole new level of the power of friendship.
Going to take a break from work to eat my lunch and start this book, which came highly recommend on All The Books. Also heard JJ Abrams is turning this into a limited series from book riot.
I rearranged my summer book collection yesterday and pulled this one out to read next.
These are the threw books I received at work today! Yes that is how my desk always looks.
Several years ago I read Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein, a memoir that chronicled her out of the blue sickness and heart transplant that followed. She has written a follow-up memoir surviving long past the decade most heart transplant patients survive. I'm glad I get a chance to reconnect with this author and am hopeful that her story will end as happily as possible.
