*ARC copy obtained in 2010* So, when I sat down to FINALLY read this the other day, I had just finished reading a family crime drama and, for some reason, was expecting the same from this. Turns out, "Every Last One" is NOT a crime drama but instead an exploration of a mother's love for her fam...
At 29 years old, I wondered if this book would hold much meaning for me since Quindlen analyzes her life at 60 and contemplates how her age has shaped her perspective on topics such as friends, children, solitude, and death. What I discovered is that Quindlen is full of incredible advice--whethe...
This was one of those books that I really wanted to read (let's face it--it's Quindlen) and one of those books I really needed to read. Funny, sad, and liberating, this book seemed to give me license to be myself, even in the midst of the place where I live and stand out like a sore thumb, and e...
I really enjoyed seeing how the main character kept growing as a person throughout this story. A good novel for when you need some easy reading. Predictable, but still enjoyable.
It is an unspoken rule of mine that self-help books are to be avoided at all costs. It just seems to me that there are just some things that cannot be helped with a book, and people presuming they can change or improve my life in 300 hundred pages or less is a bit disconcerting. Of course, that i...
This book teaches that we are always in a phase of learning and discovery about ourselves, our relationships, and our environment. I would like to say it is mainly a coming of age story, but the mother and father are also learning lessons. Quindlen has a marvelous way of expressing feelings tha...
I finished "Blessings" today and I my reaction to it is mediocre at best. Nothing great, nothing terrible. I guess I found it pretty bland, boring, and constricted.....like the main character Lydia Blessing. I liked Skip and thought his personality was very likeable and easy to identify with. ...
Is it pure coincidence that I just finished reading Anna Quindlen’s Rise and Shine on the heels of Jack London’s Martin Eden? And would I expect Quindlen’s principal character, Meghan Fitzmaurice, to meet the same unhappy conclusion that London’s principal character, Martin Eden, inevitably me...
I suppose that if I owned a bra, now I would burn it? Truth be told, the tone and even the message of this book were unexpectedly a tad bit tamer than I had presumed. That is, in building the bandwagon to rescue hordes of imagined "captive wives" still enthralled by that evil "mystique" that cann...
Anna Quindlen è una giornalista e scrittrice americana che fin dalla più tenera età è un'appassionata lettrice e che diventa ben presto un'anglofila in absentia, come dice lei stessa, cioè senza mai essere stata fisicamente in Inghilterra. Evitare un viaggio a Londra sembra per molti anni una mis...