laurie colwin – Cannonball Read 17

“She believed that all people unless impeded wanted family, needed family, that family was what life was for”

Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin

September 12, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: Family. The entire book revolves around the protagonist’s families and her place in them. Polly is happily married to her husband Henry and a content mother. Her own family is patrician and oppressive, a very tight unit that has enfolded Polly her whole life. In both of her families Polly is reliable, uncomplaining, giving, and steady. Which makes it all the more surprising when she finds herself in a passionate love affair with an artist named Lincoln. The intense love between Polly and Lincoln […]

“A person immersed in the realities of family life did not stop to ponder the meaning of life: that person was in life, up to his or her neck and beyond. The family was the beginning, the future, and the past.”

Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin

October 4, 2023 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo – Adulthood Laurie Colwin is a writer I had never heard of, but this book was gifted to me by my husband who heard about it on an NPR interview when another author said it was their favorite book of all time and he thought I might like it (I know, so sweet. Don’t tell him I told you). This book will not race to the top of my “favorite of all time” list but I did enjoy it and am glad to […]

His companion on his walk was a deep sense of persecution.

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

November 8, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I actually had never head of this book before, but I know that my wife and my mother in law (and my sister in law) have read and love Laurie Colwin’s book Home Cooking. I found this at the library sale and their connection, plus its role in one of the Joe Hill stories from his new collection Full Throttle made it an obvious buy. It’s a charming book about two couples starting off their life together. We begin meeting Vinny and Guido, two third cousins […]

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