

Nanaville
Adventures in Grandparenting
Author: Anna Quindlen
Narrator: Cynthia Farrell
Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/23/2019
Author: Anna Quindlen
Narrator: Cynthia Farrell
Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/23/2019
Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of nine novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Miller's Valley, and Alternate Side. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.
Anna Quindlen is one of those writers that makes a reader happy that she is so prolific. As with Dani Shapiro, she is as proficient in memoir as she is in fiction, and this lovely sharing memoir of grandmother-hood is a good example. Having been a prize-winning journalist, she writes in a style I ap......more
This book is a heart warming reflection/rumination about the joys and worries of being a grandparent. In the hands of experienced writer Anna Quindlen the book is also an enjoyable and interesting read. Along the way the author shares lessons learned from her own experience.Be warned: those who make......more
What a sweet, sweet book that’s so spot on about the feelings, trials & joys of being a nana! AQ covers just about every aspect including the swearing nana “I am a nana with a rich vocabulary”. On keeping your opinions to yourself with your grandchild’s parents bc “Did they ask you?”. And the gem “A......more
Here's the start: "Sunlight spreads across the checkerboard tiles in the kitchen, and so many other things: wooden spoons, a rubber frog, Tupperware, a couple of puzzle pieces, some plastic letters, elements of the obstacle course of the active toddler. Did you know that the wheels on the bus go roun......more
Author Anna Quindlen is queen of all things warm and wise, and so it’s not surprising that her ode to grandmothering hits just the right note. I was lucky and read it free and early, thanks to Random House and Net Galley, but it would have been worth the purchase price had it come down to it. This f......more