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Grandparenting is the balancing act of having done it all before but having never really done it

Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting by Anna Quindlen

January 14, 2020 by zinka Leave a Comment

It’s a complicated relationship, being a good grandparent, because it hinges on a series of other relationships… Because being a grandparent is determined by the relationship your child has with you, partly determined by the one a son or daughter has with his or her spouse, partly determined by the relationship you have with the person your child has chosen to have a child with. Like so many books I read I picked Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting off the shelves of my little town’s library […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Anna Quindlen, Children, grandparent

zinka's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Anna Quindlen, Children, grandparent ·
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If you are different from a person everyone agrees is wonderful, it means you are somehow wrong.

April 29, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

This was a tough one, emotionally. One True Thing is the story of a brilliant young woman “with her whole life ahead of her” who is guilted by her controlling and emotionally-arrested father into leaving her life behind to come home and care for her dying mother. And it covers so much ground in a very gentle but sad way: gender roles, parenting, family dynamic, literature and poetry, agency, friendship, romance, and ultimately, euthanasia. At the very beginning of the story, Ellen tells us that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anna Quindlen, brothers, cancer, cbr9, college, daughters, euthanasia, fathers, Fiction, journalism, Literature, medicine, mothers, Quindlen

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anna Quindlen, brothers, cancer, cbr9, college, daughters, euthanasia, fathers, Fiction, journalism, Literature, medicine, mothers, Quindlen ·
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