Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (944 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803242948 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Enthusiastic recommendation JULIA Wonderfully sensitive and honest writing to be read by those in, out or contemplating marriage.. "A gift from a Queen Sized Bed" according to donna r kaplowitz. Mimi Schwartz's memoir, Thoughts from a Queen Sized Bed, had me alternately laughing out loud, and crying quietly by myself. Her book is a series of short essays about marriage, family, motherhood, illness, work, life, and more!What is so poignant about this collection is that it is a raw, deeply honest and open memoir th. "A Range of Human Concerns" according to Andrea W. Herrmann. A Review of Mimi Schwartz's Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed is a wonderful collection of personal essays about Schwartz's life as a single then a married woman, as a wife and mother, and as a women committed to her own profession. These snapshots of her life--portrayed with humor, sensitivi
In this startlingly funny and wonderfully honest book of essays, Mimi Schwartz describes what it means to be married for almost forty years. Her essays are wise and warm without being sentimental, and the characters in Schwartz's world are quirky and as charming, well rounded, and complex as those found in any novel.. She writes with a keen and amused eye about growing up in an immigrant Jewish family, coming of age in New York in the 1950s, marrying her high school beau, and then arriving at feminist consciousness in the 1970s like so many others of her generation. But unlike many of her contemporaries who left first marriages for independence, Schwartz stayed loyal to her marriage.With refreshing candor Schwartz describes the ongoing challenge of marriage, where success is never without ambivalence and humor
But a few gems surface amid the quotidian onslaught. Apart from her bout with breast cancer and her husband's stroke, Schwartz has a reasonably happy existence, with none of the major difficulties such as abuse, divorce, disability and depression often found in memoirs. Thinking back to her horseback-riding girlhood, she realizes that "tomboys who are over fifty and under ten" have similar feelings of independence and "self-containment." The single best story actually concerns her father, who grew up in a German village, ran away to join the Kaiser's army and snuck into one of Hitl