Still Life with Bread Crumbs in Crazy Challenge Connection

Dec 01, 2014 Linda C rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, romance-contemporary, favorites

Rebecca Winter, noted photographer of the iconic 'Kitchen series', whose work stagnated, is forced to economize and leases out her NYC apartment. The rent will allow her to lease a cottage 2 hours north, pay her mother's nursing home fees and help with her father's rent. She moves just before turning 60 and hopes to recharge her career. As she becomes part of the community and meets some of the locals she also begins looking at her life. She gets a job photographing birds of prey with Jim, her r ...more

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Sep 07, 2014 GailW rated it really liked it

Shelves: ch14, ch15, 4-star

I am a huge fan of this author. This particular novel came at a good time for me to read - and I was not looking for much from it other than to feel good while reading it. She's 60' her career is in decline, she is experiencing serious money issues, and her old life has all but left her. In working through the issues, including moving into a decrepit old cabin so that she can rent her NYC townhouse, she keeps alluding to different things moving forward -not good not bad just forward: "But that w ...more

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Feb 22, 2022 Susan rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: cultural-usa, no-no-no, 2022

Good grief! Does this woman (the protagonist) ever stop complaining?!? Is there no one, not one single person ever in her life that does not treat her badly, abuse her, disappoint her, not live up to her expectations?!? Is there nothing or no one in her life that she is unable to find fault, usually multiple faults, with?!? Does she every stop moaning and groaning, and fault finding, and complaining?!? Spoiler alert: the answer is NO. Literally right up to the very end of the book, she is findin ...more

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May 18, 2017 Maggie Shanley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: five-star-books

Anna Quindlen is a great author and I love this homey story. This book is about finding beauty wherever you are and loving people that are good for you regardless of what you think you deserve or what other people think. Rebecca Winters is a photographer who is struggling financially after years of being well to do. She rents out her city apartment and plans to settle into her exile in rural New York while frantically trying to earn enough money to eat and help support her family. Instead, a rac ...more

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