These Precious Days: Essays By Ann Patchett

by Franklin Scoch

Kindle Edition

Published December 24, 2021

Reviews

[Ann Mccormick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed these essays by Ann Patchett. I listened to them mostly while driving to and from the mountains to visit a friend at a hospice center. So the essay about the friend with pancreatic cancer who came to live in Nashville with her and her husband was particularly meaningful. But I enjoyed all of them — and learned from them.

[Lorraine · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book of essays which is quite lovely. Most of the essays deal with death, but there is such a depth to them. This book is almost like a memoir of Ann Patchett's life. Karl's plane story were fun. Tom Hank's assistant and her treatments of pancreatic cancer. Her writing is so fluid, so smooth. I have enjoyed all her works.

[Lynda · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5. Parts were engrossing, parts were boring, but she has a huge heart and these stories were obviously from the heart.

[Kathleen S · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining and thought-provoking. Good discussion book (read for my book club)

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was not my kind of book to read. I read it for our Book Club. It had some good essays and some I definitely was not interested in. Our group discussion definitely had mixed reviews.

[Pam Mauk]

I went on a deep dive of Ann Patchett books, and I enjoyed her nonfiction as well as her fiction.