Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman’s Life Audiobook (Free)

Within this irresistible memoir, the New York Occasions bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead-and celebrating it all-as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, everything inside our closets, and more.

As she did in her beloved New York Situations columns, and in A BRIEF Guide to a Content Life, Quindlen says for us here what we might wish we could have stated ourselves. Using her previous, present, and future to explore about Plenty of Candles, A lot of Wedding cake: A Memoir of a Woman’s Life what matters most to women at different age range, Quindlen discusses

Relationship: “A back-up of small white lies can be the bedrock of an effective marriage. You wouldn’t believe how cheaply I could execute a kitchen renovation.”

Girlfriends: “Question any girl how she helps it be through the day, and she may talk about her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you press her on what she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends. Sometimes I will visit a photo of the actress within an unflattering outfit or a blouse as well young for her or with a heavy-handed make-up work, and I mutter, ‘She must not have any girlfriends.’ ”

Stuff: “Here’s what it boils down to, really: there is now a lot stuff in my head, so many years, so many remembrances, that it’s used the area of primacy away from the items in the sleeping rooms, for the porch. My doctor says that, unlike conventional intelligence, she doesn’t believe our memories flag due to a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it is in the drawers of our thoughts. Between the stuff at the job and the stuff in the home, the sessions and the news as well as the gossip and the rest, days gone by and the present and the programs for the future, the filing cupboards in our heads are not just full, they’re overflowing.”

Our anatomies: “I’ve finally known my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to transport my character from place to place, today and in the a long time. It’s like a car, and while I love a reddish convertible or even a Bentley as well as the next person, what I really need are four auto tires and an engine.”

Parenting: “Being a parent isn’t transactional. We do not get what we give. It’s the best pay-it-forward endeavor: We are great parents not they will be adoring enough to remain around but so they will be strong plenty of to keep us.”

From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age group, Quindlen uses the events of her own life to illuminate our very own. Along with the downsides old, she says, can come knowledge, a perspective on lifestyle that means it is satisfying and even joyful. Candid, funny, shifting, Lots of Candles, A lot of Wedding cake is filled up with the sharpened insights and revealing observations which have lengthy confirmed Quindlen’s position as America’s laureate of real life.