My mother-in-law passed Kelly Corrigan's memoir "The Middle Place" on to me, and I stupidly let it collect dust on my bookshelf until I ran across it on a day I had nothing to do. Then I spent the entire day - and the few after it - devouring the book. "The Middle Place" is a diary of Corrigan's battle with cancer, intertwined with lovely and funny stories about her family. I identified with the author and quickly started to think of her family … more
This memoir is filled with love, humility, honesty, compassion and a great sense of humor. Well-written and highly readable, the structure pulls you from cover to cover so quickly, it's readable in one sitting. My one sitting happened to be on a long plane ride, however, the time I spent getting to know Kelly Corrigan and her father, "Greenie," along with the rest of Kelly's family, made the plane not only bearable, but also enjoyable. She moved me from tears to laughter to a place of profound contentment. … more
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