LUMP: 19 Monologues from a 27-Year-Old Breast Cancer Survivor, Ed: 1 (edit title/settings)

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Liked It Rated 4 stars “Definitely not your typical memoir - LUMP is a series of monologues that can be read or performed. Either way, the Leena Luther asks that the reader embrace the performance aspect of her work. I thought, at first, that this might be hard to do. But - and maybe having seen the Vagina Monologues...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  “Definitely not your typical memoir - LUMP is a series of monologues that can be read or performed. Either way, the Leena Luther asks that the reader embrace the performance aspect of her work. I thought, at first, that this might be hard to do. But - and maybe having seen the Vagina Monologues about 4 dozen times helped - I found myself really getting into it, reading certain passages out loud, seriously feeling the spoken emotion behind each word.
  
  Which was refreshing. And we're talking about breast cancer, here. Leena Luther approaches cancer in a very real way - sometimes with bitterness, sometimes full of humor, sometimes with fear or with sadness - and oftentimes all of those emotions rolled into one. I found - even though I've experienced nothing like this in my life - that I was able to connect with Leena. That connection was caused by her amazing ability to express her hopes, fears, insecurities, weirdness and strength on a human level. ”

  HemingwayHeroine wrote this review Monday, March 12, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No