This is a very short book. It won't take you long to read. It will, perhaps, make you think and wake you up. Hoffman is a very successful author. But even successful people get sick. Fifteen years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although her mother had the disease and she had friends who were also fighting it, it came as a shock to her when she was diagnosed - because she wasn't the type to get cancer. She was the giver of care, not the recipient. This book is a reflection of lessons learned - not about cancer itself, but about life. She wrote it to remind herself of the joys that accompany sorrow and to remember that even when life has taken away some of your control you can still make choices. Every chapter is about choosing something - heroes, friends, how to spend your time, etc. I think everyone would get something out of this little book. In particular those that are dealing with a disease, those who care about someone who is fighting a disease, those who are getting to that "certain age" when time is flying and there is less left than we have lived, those who need to remember to take more control of their lives, those who are young and are going to make the same mistakes we did because no one told us about them, those.... really I think everyone could take away something from this book. I might buy it for my Kindle so that I can read it again from time to time.
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