GRAND Magazine - March/April 2019 - 36

book reviews

Windows to the world of grandkids and much more
Nanaville - Adventures in grandparenting
by Anna Quindlen

f you've never read anything by Anna Quindlen, you are in for a huge
treat. She is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author and Pulitzer
Prize-wining columnist. In 1985 Quindlen left The New York Times
to stay at home with her two young sons and work on a novel, but
she returned in late 1986 to write the "Life in the 30's" column. Within
two years it was being published in some 60 newspapers. Before blogs
existed, Quindlen was the 'go to' writer on the joys and challenges of

family.
The birth of her daughter in late 1988 led her to quit again, but a year later she was lured
back to The New York Times, this time with an offer to write a column on the op-ed page.
"Public & Private" began early in 1990, and her popularity
continued to grow. Quindlen was noted for seeming to
speak directly to each of her readers about the issues that
concerned them, and she brought an insightful, personal
view to political, especially gender-specific, issues. Now,
she has gone "full nana" by turning her attention to the
powerful new life stage of being a grandmother.
Her book, Nanaville - Adventures in Grandparenting is
a bighearted book of wisdom, wit, and insight, celebrating the love and joy of being a grandmother.
"I am changing his diaper, he is kicking and complaining, his exhausted father has gone to the kitchen for
a glass of water, his exhausted mother is prone on the
couch. He weighs little more than a large sack of flour and
yet he has laid waste to the living room: swaddles on the
chair, a nursing pillow on the sofa, a car seat, a stroller.
No one cares about order, he is our order, we revolve
around him."
Buy book here
36 GRAND

MARCH APRIL 2019

The Happiness Paradox - The Happiness
Paradigm - How Our Pursuit of Control,
Ownership, and Independence is Robbing Us
of Joy by Richard Eyre

ew York Times #1 bestselling author Richard Eyre contends
that the three things today's society desires most-control,
ownership, and independence-are, paradoxically, the very
"false goals" that bring the most discouragement and unhappiness in
our lives.
Packaged
in a unique
"flip-over"
format, the first half of The Happiness
Paradox explores today's challenges
to happiness. The second half of the
book, when flipped over, explores
The Happiness Paradigm: How A New
View Can Turn Your Life Right-Side Up
For more than 30 years, Richard,
along with his wife Linda, have been
writing books for parents on families, life-balance, and parenting.
The Eyres are authors of numerous
work/family balance and parenting books, one of which, Teaching Your Children Values
became the first parenting book in fifty years (since Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care) to reach
#1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Richard and Linda Eyre have been among the most
prominent and popular speakers in the world on topics of parenting, life-balance, and family-strengthening. According to Linda Eyre, Richard has been working on this book for 30
years.
Buy book here

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