Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
by:
Anna Quindlen (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099559030 (009955903X)
Publish date: May 2nd 2013
Publisher: Windmill Books
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Book Club,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
Womens
In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, using the events of her life to illuminate ours. Considering—and celebrating—everything from marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, parenting, faith, loss, to all the stuff...
This book was well out of my comfort zone.I always feel awkward when it comes to reviewing memoirs, because who am I to judge someone's past when they've offered it up so? It's even more difficult with this one because I feel I'm too young to properly understand it, although she does go back to her ...
I hated this entire book. Of the whole thing, I liked the last page the best. She wasted all of those pages preaching and quoting authors who are better than her. The last book I read was very entertaining but not written very well. This one was obviously written by a very intelligent woman who was ...
I got about halfway through and had to stop. It's just so...WASP.
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/lots-of-candles-plenty-of-cake.htmlLots of Candles, Plenty of Cake is billed as a memoir. To me, it is more a discussion on a philosophy of life told through stories from Anna Quindlen's life. It talks about her thought...
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