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Danielle Crittenden is the author of Amanda Bright @ Home the first novel ever to be serialized by the Wall Street Journal. It will be published in hardcover in May 2003 by Warner Books. She is also the author of the non-fiction book, What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (Simon & Schuster 1999; Touchstone 2000).
Photograph © Tomasa Dallal
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right? These are the questions Danielle Crittenden answers in What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us. She examines the foremost issues in women's lives --- sex, marriage, motherhood, work, aging, and politics -- and argues that a generation of women has been misled: taught to blame men and pursue independence at all costs. Happiness is obtainable, Crittenden says, but only if women will free their minds from outdated feminist attitudes.
Danielle Crittenden's Summer Reading List
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World: 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D.
by Simon Schama
I like to read two books simultaneously, one work of non-fiction, preferably history, and one work of fiction. Ideally the two will complement each other. This summer I seem to be in full British Invasion mode. In the non-fiction category, I'm launched upon the first volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World: 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D.
Can You Forgive Her?
by Anthony Trollope
For fiction, I'm reading Trollope's Palliser novels (Can You Forgive Her?; Phineas Finn; The Eustace Diamonds; Phineas Redux; The Prime Minister; The Duke's Children). Different time periods of the same little island to be sure, but what is wonderful about Schama is that he describes the domestic world of the ancient Orcadians almost as vividly as Trollope describes Victorian drawing rooms.
How to Eat
by Nigella Lawson
I've also been enjoying --- devouring! --- Nigella Lawson's wonderfully entertaining How to Eat, especially her recipes for babies (my third child is going through her "orange" period of solid food--carrots, sweet potatos etc.).
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J.K. Rowling; narrated by Jim Dale
With my 8-year-old son, I've been listening to the books-on-tape version of the second Harry Potter novel, which I think will make a better movie than the first novel did.
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