One True Thing

This is the book that changed everything for me ... I used to HATE reading! I was a slow reader and my mind would wander while I read. During one of my last semesters of college, I took an elective course called Death and Dying. Instead of a final exam, we were required to read this book and then wr......more

I read this book a while ago, but waited until now to offer a review. This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. It is about the relationships between an adult daughter, her dying mother and the father she adores. I really like Anna Quindlen. Because... I think she writes very......more

This is one of my all-time favorite books. You can read the synopsis for yourself, but in short Ellen Gulden is a Harvard-educated writer living in New York, on the cusp of greatness. Her father is a Lit. Professor and Ellen connects with him, more than her stay-at-home mother, Kate. Kate is diagnos......more

Oh boy....I don't think I cried so much reading a book, as I did this one. I had to quit reading it in public. I've read a couple of other Quindlen books which I enjoyed but this one took me to a gut-wrenching place that I related to much too much as I am sure other readers did who have done any lon......more