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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

A Memoir

by Anna Quindlen
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  • First Published:
  • Apr 24, 2012, 208 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Apr 2013, 224 pages
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Jana

Extremely disappointed
I have always been a fan of Quindlen’s writing, but I was extremely disappointed in this book. Being a baby boomer myself, I was looking forward to some amusing insights to help with the ageing process, but I found this book to be a collection of random thoughts that were very disjointed and uninteresting. I was so frustrated with it, that I couldn’t even finish it.
R. Dodd

Disappointing
I thought this was going to be a thoughtful humorous reflection on a baby boomer wife/mother in her mature years. Instead it is a narcissistic rambling of life lived in wealth and privilege. Not interested.

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