Review: An excellent novel which touched my heart in so many ways.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2012
You know, life works in strange and mysterious ways, and so it is with this book. I have had "The Memory Songbook" in my queue for months and have, many times, thought of reading it; yet I decided only yesterday to do so. It simply rocked me to the core as it couldn't have been more in keeping with events in my life about now.  I lost my mother unexpectedly last month and in the same week had to move my father into assisted living, for without her, he is a lost soul.  This book deals with both permanent loss, through death, as well as the loss of a loved one or parent to Alzheimer's.  It also had the dynamic of brother and sister, reunited in the toughest of circumstances.  I cannot adequately express how this book made me feel--elated, heartbroken and renewed are words which descriptively state what I felt, yet they all fall so very short.  Now, I'm not saying that this book is perfect, nor am I suggesting that it is a read which everyone will enjoy, but I found it to be a catharsis.  I was at first a bit confused with the protagonist's "popping" in and out of his reality but things came together nicely, and in the end I reveled in the living memories this book inspired me to revisit.  Poignant, compelling and nicely written...I thank the author and give this one a solid 4 1/2 stars.