Book Review: Elizabeth is Missing

One of my two grandmothers turns 81 this year. While she is still considerably healthy, due to the side effect of a certain medicine she used to take, her memory now fails her. I found it difficult to accept. With her young looks and seemingly fit physics, it is hard to believe that she could forget so many things. New things! And i noticed that she starts telling lies. She was hoarding tissues and water bottles in her room. And from being the active person that she once was, she's becoming lazy and boring. Then i found this book. By chance. And it has helped me understand what she was going through so much. I learned that she wasn't lying, she just got her facts mixed up. She wasn't hoarding, she just forgot that she has the stuff already. She wasn't lazy or boring, she's just... Old. Well, they say life is a learning process. And that is indeed the truth. So sometimes, other people's experiences, novels even fictions, can be the cliff's notes to your own life's challenges. Guiding, explaining and preparing you things in advance. What to expect, what to anticipate and maybe how to act. Reading is like feeding your thoughts, so what you read will nourish your knowledge. So choose what you read. There's nothing wrong with reading fictions or any sort of literature. As long as you read it with an open mind.