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One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

By Diane Ackerman
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Publisher Description

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

"A testament to the power of creativity in language, life—and love." —Heller McAlpin, Washington Post

It is a truism that lovers have their own language. And the love story—extending over more than forty years—of acclaimed writers Diane Ackerman and Paul West is equally a story of the love of language and its mysteries. In this heart-warming, uplifting memoir, Ackerman explores the brain’s ability to find and connect words—and of the latest science behind what happens when it fails to do so. Exposing both the terror of losing language and the giddy exhilaration of its recovery, Ackerman opens a window into the experience of wordlessness and testifies to the joyous necessity of wordplay for the health of both mind and spirit.

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3.5
“Prof. Koole, if you see this, I understand why you made me read this. That being said. Concept is great but the writing is rough, way too much descriptive language. A story that could've been told in half the length if we didn't try to make a Picasso with every single paragraph. And their relationship is really odd - he's way older, it's giving grooming (professor/student relationship) and sounds low-key abusive prior to his stroke, she describes it as having to step on glass around him, that's not normal. Also the chlorine turning things green that I didn't at all need to know about - yeah. The wombat nicknames. It's all just a little”

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