No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

Realistically a 3.5 // Okay, this book was so sad. I have a soft spot for memoirs, especially tragic ones with no actual resolution. This fits the bill. I cried quite a bit, and I loved the idea of capitalism taking hold of self-help and rewriting self-improvement as a never-ending goal that you need to do X and buy Y in order to (never actually, because there's always something else) reach. The unattainable goal of improvement can be encouraging in the right context, but it can also be unhealthy.

Would rec. Good, quick read.

Like the cancer parts.  Teared up about  the thought of dying before your child is 3, having young kids myself.  But the rest....wasn't for me.  I lost my mother to stage 4 cancer, I was reading this with the hopes of understanding what my mother felt and to help process.  I just didn't get what I wanted from this book.