Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

Author: Anna Quindlen
Stars: 5
Review by: Little Red Hen

Anna Quindlen wrote her memoir as she reached 60 as a series of essays, looking back to the Fifties and ahead. This gave me a time perspective as a woman who has reached 75 and remembers those Fifties, but reads this book more from a woman of her mother's generation. Sometimes it was painful, and I didn't want to hear about how Anna never did own or would not own an iron or ironing board. Much of the way I lived from younger years was a total waste, I became convinced. But she becomes kinder and very human.

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