Dream New Dreams
by Jai Pausch
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83%
Critic Reviews: 12
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80%
Reader Ratings: 138
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Synopsis
A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer. "Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife. "Jai knows that she'll have to give herself permission to make herself a priority." In Dream New Dreams, Jai Pausch shares her own story for the first time: her emotional journey from wife... more
About Jai Pausch
- All Critics: 12
- Positive: 11
- Negative: 1
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Apr 2012
A touching memoir of grief...Pausch manages to share her pain and heartache at an intensely personal level without ever sounding self-absorbed or asking for the reader’s pity.
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Los Angeles Times | 8 Jun 2012
This book...hits on the absurdity that cancer produces...rarely can one feel so isolated, so surrounded by high walls, as after a diagnosis. And yet Pausch's vital message for all caregivers — that life will go on because it must — is more than capable of scaling these walls.
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As You Like It | 29 Jun 2012
...Jai offers a glimmer of her new hopes and new dreams, and readers are enriched to have shared her plain-spoken account of loss and love.
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Kathleen Fordyce | 4 Jun 2012
To me, the book seemed more catered to offering advice for caregivers and less of a memoir...as if she telling the story about someone else she was watching, instead of telling her own emotional tale.
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Thoughts from Mill Street | 8 Oct 2012
Randy challenged all of us to live each day to our fullest, she challenges all caregivers to find their own new dreams, to continue the quest for a well lived life. I highly recommend this book.
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Making It Up | 5 Sep 2012
Would I recommend this book? Absolutely. Powerful, moving, simple, and full of love – Jai Pausch is an amazing person, as a mother, as a widow, as a wife and as herself.
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Bookin' with Bingo | 26 Jul 2012
DREAM NEW DREAMS is beautifully written and Jai Pausch makes a persuasive plea for people to think about how each of us can help make situations like this better.
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Swenson | 31 Jul 2012
She has not glorified the past nor does she fear the future. Pausch offers a real, emotionally raw, account of how to pick up the pieces and create something new.
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The Vault
It is a representation of someone’s deepest fears, someone’s heart rendering description of seeing their loved one walking towards death, fighting it to finally embrace it peacefully or is someone’s soul laid bare on a piece of paper.
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Beauty and Lace | 23 Jul 2012
...this is a book which most people will find some inspiration in...Life is fluid which makes plans and dreams fluid, sometimes you have to embrace that to move forward to new dreams.
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NABBW
Jai paints a vivid, honest portrait of a vital, challenging relationship between two strong people facing a grim prognosis and the self-sacrificing decisions it required them to make.
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Jaya's Blog | 29 Jul 2012
...a must read for all caregivers. Without being dull or voyeuristic, it is sensitively told — it is honest, frank and a useful aid on caregiving.
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