Every Last One

from teamweasley

I LOVED THIS BOOK! Immediately you are swept into the life of a working wife and mother of three teenagers who seem to all be holding it together on the surface. It's not until half way through the book that a cold reality strikes that leaves you reeling and breathless. This tragic tale is told i...

from rosalita

Anna Quindlen is a very talented writer. I knew that from reading her newspaper and magazine columns, and from reading one of her earlier novels, [Black and Blue], which looks domestic violence square in the eye and lives to tell about it. So I maybe should have expected that the lull I fell into...

from PermaSwooned

When I went to add this book to my Kindle, it was apparent I'd read it before, but I didn't remember it at all well. I think it must have been because it was after my accident and surgery, and much of that period is hazy. Also, I think it's because it's a difficult book for a mother to read. It's...

from Florinda

"This is my life: The alarm goes off at five-thirty with the murmuring of a public-radio announcer, telling me that there has been a coup in Chad, a tornado in Texas. My husband stirs briefly next to me, turns over, blinks, and falls back to sleep for another hour. My robe lies at the foot of the...

from cottongirl7

I just finished this book, Every Last One, about a minute and a half ago. It had been on my list to read for a while and I was interested because it's mostly about a mom and her life raising her daughter Ruby, her twin boys Max and Alex, and her husband Glen. I am going to start by saying I think...