from ZareksMom

I felt that the book was, at least to some extent, wrapped up a little too easily into a nice, happy ending. I did, however, enjoy it very much. Elizabeth Noble really expresses the idea that we as children have about our mothers: they are our mothers, and that is it. Then she shatters that illus...

from smallwonder56

So much of life is hard to explain. You can tell your children about the sorts of things they'll encounter--the pitfalls, the times of joy, the worries--but, ultimately, they must deal with them themselves. Elizabeth Noble's "Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Novel" was full of all the joy an...

from AJBraithwaite

I picked this one up with some trepidation, as it was another of my mother-in-law's airport purchases and the cover looked as frothy as the last one (The Model Wife). But it was a pleasant surprise - a tear-jerky feelgood read about the lives of four sisters in the year after the death of their m...

from karenthecroccy

A mother dying of cancer, four sisters and a grieving father. Sounds like a book about death, but really, it's a book about life. It's the life of the family surrounding the mother's death told in conjunction with the writings of the mother's letters to her daughters and of the journal she kept a...

from tara35

I received Things I Want My Daughters to Know from LibraryThings's Early Reviewer program. This is the fourth novel I have read by Elizabeth Noble and I think it is one of her better works. This novel falls into the category of women's fiction and primarily explores the relationships between the ...