What My Mother Gave Me - Paperback

from 2chances

Okay, Mother's Day gift this year? This book, accompanied by a letter telling your mom about a treasured something she gave you. I'm not signing off on this collection of essays in its entirety, mind. No. Some of the essays are markedly weak, and one(about the author's clerical assistant stealing...

from smallwonder56

I love short pieces by authors I admire. I loved my mother. What a wonderful pairing of the two--insightful (and often entertaining) authors sharing the stories of how their mothers shaped them, often through everyday things that they may not even be aware of. I especially loved the pieces by Car...

from nyiper

I was so happy to discover a brief description of each of the story authors at the back of the book. I knew so many of them from reading their books but of course in a list of 31 there were many I did not know. What a fascinating collection of stories. I'm thinking they might have been a little s...

from lovestampmom

This book came just in time for Mother's Day 2013. It's a collection of short stories/essays written by 31 different female authors. Some of them are well known, others, not as much. The theme? They wrote about the one thing that their Mom had given them with the most meaning or long-lasting impr...

from tloeffler

Elizabeth Benedict has collected stories from thirty-one noted women about the one gift their mother gave them that meant the most to them. I was worried that I would be reading thirty-one gushing, wonderful stories about perfect mother/daughter relationships. But these stories were real. Yes, so...