Quick update …. I’m out walking and I just finished listening to the NPR interview with Amy Bloom about this book …If you have a chance to listen to the NPR interview it’s really excellent. Amy Bloom is magnificent…. ….Her voice is authentic and true, honed to perfection! It’s one of the few memoirs that feel as though they have made a difference in the world. Barriers have been broken…. boundaries stripped away….Amy invites us to look beneath the surface with her unsparing, yet compassionate n...

Have you had a loved one get very ill with what turned out to be a fatal disease? A disease like Alzheimer’s or another disease of dementia? How would you help your loved one if he wanted to circumvent his suffering and end his life on his terms. Would you help? That was the situation for Amy Bloom and her husband, Brian Ameche. Bloom explains it all in her slim memoir, “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss”.Amy Bloom and Brian Ameche met and fell madly in love when they met in their forties. Each...

One of the best memoirs I've read in my life. It's on par with A Year of Magical Thinking and When Breath Becomes Air. I put this book in the category with the former two due to its beautiful writing. Writing a memoir is easy, but composing words eloquently is an art form. This book is a masterpiece mainly about love, aging, marriage, family, Alzheimer's, dying; but ironically, it's also about the beauty of being alive, healthy and loved by lots of people around you.

Amy Bloom has no peers. She is wonderful and down-to-earth and tells this story of lost love with every inch of her heart and soul. Superb!

This book brings the subject of Death by Dignity to the forefront and will have you understanding the daunting process the patient and family go thru, from broaching the topic to finding help, acceptance of the decision and the aftermath, not only of the act itself but peoples opinion of it. I found it brutally honest as to the emotions that go into such a monumental decision..denial, disdain, fear, reluctance, acceptance. While not as maudlin as I feared, I found this book a brutally honest acc...

Told in the voice of the author, Amy Bloom, this indeed was a labor of love and undying emotion, dedication and most importantly love. Brian, Amy's husband wanted her to write about this. Whether you believe in assists suicide or not, this is a book that will touch your heart and soul. It is a book of a love between a man and a woman, one so deep rooted that they each are willing to let the other go.Afflicted by the dreaded disease we know as Alzheimer’s, Amy Bloom’s husband, Brian, had decided

An emotionally powerful, beautifully written, and unflinching memoir. I listened to this courageous and memorable story of “accompanied suicide.” I was shattered with the ending.The memoir was deeply thought-provoking and sometimes difficult for me to comprehend. I can only hope that I would face a comparable situation with as much courage and grace as Brian Ameche and Amy Bloom.

I finished this last week but it has taken me this long to sort out my thoughts, feelings after reading this searing book. I was emotionally slayed by the honesty, her very real thoughts as she came to terms with bother husband's diagnosis and decision to end his life in assisted suicide. I wondered if I could have the courage to do what my loved one wanted but then again the other side of the coin is to make him stay and watch him become less than. She openly displays her life, the before, the

Amy Bloom writes with the full bandwidth of her humanity. I’ve read and loved all of her previous books, so I had no doubt I’d feel the same about her new memoir, In Love. Fall in love with In Love. It’s effortless. What sounds like a grim topic—the “accompanied suicide” of Amy’s Alzheimer’s-stricken husband, Brian—is anything but. That’s because Amy tells the whole truth. There is no shying away from her own sometimes demonic rage or grief, including a hysterically funny passage about what she

I appreciated Amy Bloom’s courage and honesty in talking about her late husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and her decision to help him die of assisted suicide through the organization Dignitas. I feel like she cut through the stigma surrounding assisted suicide with her clear and heartfelt writing about her emotions throughout the decision process and her love for Brian. As other reviewers have said, Bloom wrote with much-needed candor about the toll of caretaking for someone with Alzheimer’s, an

Full disclosure.: months ago, my husband passed away. My role as caregiver was hard, unappreciated, confusing, and ultimately devastating because the best I could do was tell my husband that it was alright to die. So, I read Amy Bloom's book about the death of her husband from Alzheimer's , in part, to validate my own experience.Bloom, and Her husband, Brian, were second-time-around sweethearts and while their preference for activities (Brian was an outdoorsman. Amy's home was her castle) didn't...

A beautiful story of true love. When Amy Bloom's husband of 13 years, Brian, begins to act strangely, to screw up at work, to lose interest in the things he loved, a series of doctor's appointments led to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. There was no time at which Brian wanted to continue the long goodbye of Alzheimer's. When he was losing the ability to lead a full and independent life it was time to check out. The US does not provide people with the means to end life peacefully. Even in the few rig...

Reading through tears - a beautifully written journey of the most painful kind. In Love by Amy Bloom hits all the right notes when it comes to revealing and evoking authentic and true emotions. The author beautifully articulates her story of love, passionate and imperfect, and her personal emotional challenges and struggles. She shares what she has experienced and learned during her quest for answers while on life’s journey before and during her husband’s early onset Alzheimer’s symptoms, diagno...

I wouldn’t ordinarily choose to read a memoir about a man diagnosed with Alzheimer’s choosing assisted death told from the point of view of his wife who bears the brunt of the complex logistics of this decision. But I will reading ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that Amy Bloom writes. And this book is heartbreaking and beautiful and weirdly comforting. It’s a beautiful tribute to her husband Brian and their families. It’s a tender look at end of life choices and the cruelty of this disease. Bloom writes...

You’d think this would be an absolutely heart-rending book, as it recounts the end of the novelist author’s marriage when her well-loved husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and he asks for her help in ending his life. Yes, it is sad; the author obviously loved her handsome husband and deeply grieves his loss. But it’s a remarkably unsentimental account of the last few years of Brian’s life, when he was undergoing changes that badly affected his marriage but that no one recognized as symptoms o...

“We’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time.”(Ameche family saying)Given the psychological astuteness of her fiction, it’s no surprise that Bloom is a practicing psychotherapist. She treats her own life with the same compassionate understanding, and even though the main events covered in this brilliantly understated memoir only occurred two and a bit years ago, she has remarkable perspective and avoids self-pity and mawkishness. Her husband, Brian Ameche, was diagnosed with early...

DNF. This memoir was obviously very personal and I don’t want to minimize her grief and pain. However, as a reader reviewing a book, I regret that I never was able to fully connect with or truly understand her and her husband’s decisions. I found the book quite sad which is why I stopped at 40%. For me, assisted suicide is not an option and there are valid reasons why they make it so difficult in the the U.S. to perform it. It felt a bit like the author was trying to promote it.

In Love was a book that I could not put down once I started. I read until 2:30 am to finish it, something that I haven't done in a very long time. I knew how it ended, but the story was just too immersive to put down. Amy Bloom has written quite a few works of fiction, but this is a memoir of how she accompanied her husband Brian with his suicide after he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. It's as gut-wrenching and heart-breaking as you might imagine, but it's also full of questions, love, h...

Oddly shallow for the issues it was exploring.

Thank you Amy Bloom for sharing this deeply personal and heartfelt memoir about you and your husband’s journey dealing with his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. His decision to leave this earth on his own volition, before he lost all of his mental faculties, was very personal and yet he wanted you to share it with others. I was very moved by this memoir and appreciative of the effects this devastating disease has on a couple, their family and their community of friends.