The Bright Hour

I was worried about reading this because a book about cancer and dying just doesn't sound like a good time, but something about the book attracted me so I finally picked it up.

And it was sad. There's no other way to describe it. But Nina was funny and honest and her writing is just beautiful. I'm so glad I read this.

4.5 stars
Searingly honest, courageous, humorous & eloquent. RIP Nina Riggs.

Read as part of the Read Harder Challenge 2018 - A book published posthumously. I am so glad I read this book. I doubt I would have read it if it wasn't for the challenge. But what a beautifully written book - SO so good! Yes you will probably cry at the end but it is so worth the read.

This memoir was written by Nina during the years before she died from cancer. She writes about fighting the cancer, about losing her mom to cancer during her own fight, and about navigating life as a sick person. While this book was really good, it was hard to read, because it was just very sad. It was hard reading about her decline, knowing that she died before the book came out. Riggs was an artist, and a lot of the chapters in her book are really artistically written. I had to go back a couple of times and reread several of the paragraphs to really understand them and soak them in. Overall it's really deep and very, very good – you just have to be in the right space to read it.

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