One Hundred Names for Love
Written by Diane Ackerman
Narrated by Barbara McCulloh
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About this audiobook
Diane Ackerman
Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including A Natural History of the Senses -- a book beloved by readers all over the worldand the volumes Deep Play, A Slender Thread, The Rarest of the Rare, A Natural History of Love, The Moon by Whale Light, and a memoir on flying, On Extended Wings. Her poetry has been collected into six volumes, among them Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems and, most recently, Praise My Destroyer. Ms. Ackerman has received many prizes and awards, including the John Burroughs Nature Award and the Lavan Poetry Prize. A Visiting Professor at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, she was the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor at the University of Richmond. Ms. Ackerman also has the unusual distinction of having had a molecule named after her -- dianeackerone. She lives in upstate New York.
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Reviews for One Hundred Names for Love
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I may not be the most objective reviewer because I do love a good word salad and I got my fill with this one. Some of the criticisms are indeed valid: she does matter on about the words themselves, the cuddling, and Paul’s love of nudity. The one hundred words of love were cute, outrageous and sometimes de trop. In spite of all that, I enjoyed the book, not only for the love of words, but for the portrait of the stressors of caregivers, and the astonishing world of the stroke victim from his point of view.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is the story of four years in the life of a couple after the husband suffers serious aphasia caused by a stroke. The sense of loss is heightened by the fact that both husband and wife are successful writers for whom word play is like eating or breathing. The tittle "One Hundred Names for Love" refers to the couples pre-stroke practice of devising novel pet names for each other. The author kept a journal chronicling her husband's frustrations with standard therapy and the non-stop "conversation therapy" that succeeded in guiding him back to his world of words.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was a decent book. The author's husband suffers a stroke and is affected by apashia, a language disorder which ranges from having difficulty remembering words to being completely unable to speak, read or write. This is especially problematic for this couple as they are both authors and stimulated by words, word games and a rich vocabulary. I didn't relate much to their situation but the book was very well written and their story compelling.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Did he get better or not? That is what keeps you reading this book. This couple's devotion to each other and the intense and literate caregiving by Diane Ackerman are vital in helping author and husband Paul West regain his words after a serious stroke decimates the language area of his brain. Diane had previously researched and written a book about the brain, giving her an advantage in understanding her husband's injuries.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a wonderful book in these times of so many growing older in the midst of "you never know what's going to happen next!" That's life. But Ackerman, and of course her husband, Paul, are a pair to behold, admire, and absorb---for their relationship and their abilities to persevere through so much. One asks, "could I do ANY of that?" One only hopes. Ackerman provides a personal wealth of knowledge to anyone who reads this.