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Loading... Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's…by Elizabeth Edwards
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Elizabeth Edwards is an amazing woman living her life with dignity and grace. She confronts issues in her life in this book head on and manages to maintain her dignity. She states flat out if you're looking for a scandalous story about her husband you shouuld stop reading. It's difficult to read because her life has been beset with tragedy but you appreciate her all the more. (  ) Cailin | Nov 28, 2009 |  Elizabeth Edwards is a fluent and beautiful writer. She has a knack for getting to the core and making it real. I loved her first book though it was hard to read. The painful grieving process after the death of her oldest child was breathtaking and horrible. In this book she writes about the death of her child again, plus her fight with breast cancer and her situation with the infidelity of her husband. Any one of these three is too much to bear, and yet, she has borne all three and can write about the pain and not seem like a suffering victim. She has had much more financial success than most, but much more tragedy than many. I find it hard not to be impressed with her. ( ) dablackwood | Nov 9, 2009 | Resilience was a short memoir, evidently her second…I have not read the first. She covered all the tragedies that have shaped her life as played out in the media. She talks a lot about the death of her 16 you son, Wade. Then she covers her breast cancer treatment and the recurrence which has left her a cancer patient for life. Finally she addresses her husband’s infidelity. I am still aghast at the fact that he even considered this liaison. What a schmuck. The book appeared to be honest to a point. It wasn’t too sensational or too morbid. I found that the part I liked best was the last chapter or so where she pulled it all together and made some interesting comments on life’s journey. It was worth the read since I had it, but I wouldn’t run out and get it. I find it very troubling that we insist on making our politicians and our celebrities bear up under the intense scrutiny of the media. I question whether this is truly necessary, but I guess there is no going back to the good ole days when there were clandestine affairs and everyone was able to bury their “secret sorrows”. (  ) beebeereads | Oct 11, 2009 | Elizabeth Edwards is an amazing woman living her life with dignity and grace. She confronts issues in her life in this book head on and manages to maintain her dignity. She states flat out if you're looking for a scandalous story about her husband you shouuld stop reading. It's difficult to read because her life has been beset with tragedy but you appreciate her all the more. ( ) Fiorghra | Sep 26, 2009 | Democratic or Republican, it simply does not matter when reading this book. Elizabeth Edwards frank and at times excruitating look into her personal life is a great gift. She deals with the life-altering death of her son, cancer, and her husbands affair with grace, determination and dignity; but also gives the reader a sense that she is not un-human like in her grief, anger, and pain. (  ) misfev | Aug 5, 2009 | 
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