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Title: Backbone
Subtitle: Living with Chronic Pain Without Turning into One
Author: Karen Duffy
Narrator: Karen Duffy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-17
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine
Publisher's Summary:
Backbone is a life-fulfilling message about managing chronic pain and living a life of purpose. For two decades, Karen Duffy, New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress, has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. In this powerful, inspirational, funny, and important manual for surviving pain, Duffy draws on her experience as a patient advocate, trained recreational therapist, and hospice chaplain to illuminate gratifying methods people can use to cope with chronic pain and reinforces the sentiment that "circumstances determine our lives, but we shape our lives by what we make of circumstances" (Sir John Wheeler Bennet).
More than one-third of the US population - nearly one hundred million Americans - is currently living with chronic pain, while another 133 million Americans live with some form of chronic illness. Half of the US population suffers from these invisible illnesses where their symptoms are not always obvious to the casual observer. Duffy herself suffers from sarcoidosis, a disorder that causes the growth of inflammatory cells on different organs of the body. In her case, her sarcoidosis is located in her brain, causing her unimaginable pain. Backbone is for the massive population of sufferers who are eager to be understood and helped, and sends the message that despite the pain, there is a way to a good life.
Members Reviews:
Not well written and poorly edited
I have chronic pain and have been on the lookout for a memoir that deals with the subject. Until this popped up, I really hadn't seen anything. Unfortunately, there's little to recommend this book.
1. Duffy is not a very good writer. It was all telling and no showing; As a result, her assertion (and the quotes of others--she's very fond of little quotes) that words fail/are inadequate when it comes to trying to get another to understand pain were even truer. At least if you write a scene the showing might get the point across. But this was just kind of rambling essay--though good essays do have parts that show rather than just tell.
2. Wow. That editor should be fired. Clearly Duffy wrote these as separate pieces/vignettes. There is SO much repetition. How many times did she say she used to work in an old folks home as if it were the first time she said it? I think at least 10. There were all kinds of instances of this.
3. The structure. As in there is none. The first 15 minutes were ok, and then there was what felt like a lifetime about her son and hockey. About one percent of that endless digression related to her illness and chronic pain.
4. The tone. She's so busy making sure nobody feels sorry for her by trying to be funny, sarcastic, and snarky that I didn't feel much of anything--no empathy, sympathy, and I didn't even relate that much. That's a pretty big miss. Granted, I don't have her illness and type of pain, (she's in much worse shape than I am) but that fact alone shows how lacking the writing is.
She had a couple of interesting things to say that I wish she had delved deeper into, such as how society blames peoples who are sick/in pain as if they brought it on themselves when clearly they didn't. Or her distaste of those who claim something like, "Getting cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me because____________"(fill in the blank).
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Title: Backbone
Subtitle: Living with Chronic Pain Without Turning into One
Author: Karen Duffy
Narrator: Karen Duffy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-17
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine
Publisher's Summary:
Backbone is a life-fulfilling message about managing chronic pain and living a life of purpose. For two decades, Karen Duffy, New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress, has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. In this powerful, inspirational, funny, and important manual for surviving pain, Duffy draws on her experience as a patient advocate, trained recreational therapist, and hospice chaplain to illuminate gratifying methods people can use to cope with chronic pain and reinforces the sentiment that "circumstances determine our lives, but we shape our lives by what we make of circumstances" (Sir John Wheeler Bennet).
More than one-third of the US population - nearly one hundred million Americans - is currently living with chronic pain, while another 133 million Americans live with some form of chronic illness. Half of the US population suffers from these invisible illnesses where their symptoms are not always obvious to the casual observer. Duffy herself suffers from sarcoidosis, a disorder that causes the growth of inflammatory cells on different organs of the body. In her case, her sarcoidosis is located in her brain, causing her unimaginable pain. Backbone is for the massive population of sufferers who are eager to be understood and helped, and sends the message that despite the pain, there is a way to a good life.
Members Reviews:
Not well written and poorly edited
I have chronic pain and have been on the lookout for a memoir that deals with the subject. Until this popped up, I really hadn't seen anything. Unfortunately, there's little to recommend this book.
1. Duffy is not a very good writer. It was all telling and no showing; As a result, her assertion (and the quotes of others--she's very fond of little quotes) that words fail/are inadequate when it comes to trying to get another to understand pain were even truer. At least if you write a scene the showing might get the point across. But this was just kind of rambling essay--though good essays do have parts that show rather than just tell.
2. Wow. That editor should be fired. Clearly Duffy wrote these as separate pieces/vignettes. There is SO much repetition. How many times did she say she used to work in an old folks home as if it were the first time she said it? I think at least 10. There were all kinds of instances of this.
3. The structure. As in there is none. The first 15 minutes were ok, and then there was what felt like a lifetime about her son and hockey. About one percent of that endless digression related to her illness and chronic pain.
4. The tone. She's so busy making sure nobody feels sorry for her by trying to be funny, sarcastic, and snarky that I didn't feel much of anything--no empathy, sympathy, and I didn't even relate that much. That's a pretty big miss. Granted, I don't have her illness and type of pain, (she's in much worse shape than I am) but that fact alone shows how lacking the writing is.
She had a couple of interesting things to say that I wish she had delved deeper into, such as how society blames peoples who are sick/in pain as if they brought it on themselves when clearly they didn't. Or her distaste of those who claim something like, "Getting cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me because____________"(fill in the blank).