Truth & Beauty: A Friendship Audiobook

" I really love this book. Lucy is a very compelling person and Ann Patchett writes so beautifully about her and their friendship. Relationships are messy. "

" My favorite idea that she conveys is that she can no more "quit" her friend, Lucy, who she loves as much as anybody, than Lucy can "quit" her drug use. We can't choose who we love and who we're going to stop loving, usually regardless of how much they hurt us or themselves. "

" Read Autobiography of a Face then read Truth and Beauty. They give you two different perspectives on the life of Lucy Grealy. "

" i loved this book! it's about the friendship between ann patchett and lucy grealy, she wrote the "autobiography of a face", and what lengths you will go to help someone you love. i cried. "

" One of the best books I've read in a while. True friendship is an enduring, infuriating and all encompassing love. "

" This book was a really good non-fiction read. I often struggle with reading books that aren't fiction, so I was unsure whether I would like it or not, but I really wanted to see how Ann depicted her friendship with Lucy. She didn't glorify their relationship or make it seem prettier or nicer than it was. She painted a real portrait of a friendship with good parts and ugly parts, making the book relatable and engaging. I'm going to recommend it to my best friend. "

" I thought it would be more about their friendship but it was a very one-sided story of Lucy's selfishness and likely underlying mental illness. It may have just been a very one-sided friendship. It was an interesting read with a sad but predictable ending. "

" A beautiful portrait of friendship - I definitely recommend reading it along with Autobiography of a Face and Suellen Grealy's Guardian aritcle. "

" Hard to read story of how we cope with challenges life presents to us ---- and how we make these challenges incomprehensibly worse... "

" This is a story about Ann Patchett's close friendship with Lucy Greeley. This book made me appreciate how "normal" my friends are. "

" Ann Patchett is perfection. That is it, pure and simple. I want to be friends with her. "

" A sad but beautifullly written story about love and friendship. "

" Sad but beautiful memoir about the relationship between two successful modern women authors. "

" A beautiful and yet completely disfunctional friendship. "

" I can see why she had to write this book BUT ... it is kind of tedious for the rest of us to have to read. Bits though are beautifully written. "

" I read this as the March selection for Real Simple Magazine's "No Obligation Book Club.". It was okay. Interesting topic, but overall I found it a bit tiresome. I did want to see how it ended so I persevered, but it's not a book I would have chosen to read on my own. "

" Wow! Powerful and exhausting. It is the true story of two women and their deep friendship. They meet in college and both become well known writers. It involves addictions and how we can wrongly think we are loving someone by never saying "no more"! "

" A poignant,sad account of one woman's struggle with her post-cancer face, men, and her writing. The tragedy of this gifted writer's spiral down is documented in this book by her dear friend. Well-written and compelling. "

" A profound portrait of a difficult but meaningful friendship. "

" What a gorgeous read! I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a really close friend! "

" Good but strange and disturbing at times. "

" This memoir is beautiful and heart-breaking. "

" A very well-written look into the "ant" side of a co-depended relationship. While it was interesting to read because the ladies are interesting, I'm not sure that I formed a relationship with either of them. "

" Lucy was too kind about the pain and suffering she went through in Autobiography of a Face. Ann tells the story of the 30+ surgeries Lucy had. An excellent story (?) of friendship. "

" Read her first book. Even better. I think she has a new one out now. "

" stunning. ann patchett is a wonderful storyteller. the story itself is tragic and sad, endearing and horrifying, but the journey patchett takes you on is unforgettable. "

" Loved, loved, loved this memoir. An amazing story of a somewhat one-sided friendship. Interesting to read about the story of these two friends, both talented writers and bright women. Terrifically well-written, and I'm on my way to reading more from Ann Patchett. "

" This book was amazing. A truly unique story coupled with the ultimate universal theme of friendship. "

" I like Ann Patchett and it was cool to read more about her life and her friendship. "

" Curious to read Lucy Grealy's memoir. Sad, but seemingly honest, account/witnessing of a friend's descent into despair and ultimately death. "

" Read this one a few years ago and really enjoyed it. "

" I loved Lucy Greely's Autobiography of a Face, so I was disappointed to learn that she took advantage of people constantly and really just came across as someone who wanted to be famous. I was expecting a more lyric style from Patchett too. "

" I love every other book by Ann Patchett (not so much with Taft, but even that was a decent read). With this one, the writing was fine, but I found I didn't like Ann Patchett as much by the end. She came across like a bit of an intellectual elitist--snob--and fairly self-centered. "