Brenda Barker's Next Chapter
by Wendy Tokunaga 
On This Page
Members
- Recently Added By
Published Reviews
ThingScore 100
“Such a fun read, with some real laugh-out-loud moments.”
added by WendyTokunaga
Author Information
11+ Works 170 Members
Wendy Tokunaga is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2026-02-02
- People/Characters
- Brenda Barker, Holly Ellis, Colette Pascal, Quinn Cryer, Adrian Kilgore, Callie Swan
- Important places
- North Carolina, USA, California Wine Country, Rancho Uvas, Sky Ridge Writers Conference, San Francisco Bay Area
- Quotations
- LeeAnne is seventy-two and considers me Sharon
Stone to her Helen Mirren. She hikes every day, holds a
brown belt in karate and takes weekly tap-dancing lessons.
Her birthday card to me this year showed a picture of ... (show all)a
woman leaping out of a rocking chair exclaiming, “Aging
Is Mandatory; Getting Old Is Optional.”
Life's too short to waste eating mediocre
food. I want to eat well. I want to dine where the chef
prepares vegetables that are in season, not out of a can.
Who gets her ingredients fresh from local farms, not
frozen. Who wants to offer dishes that are not only
delicious but works of art in their taste and presentation.
I didn't question things. Maybe I should
have. It wasn't as if I were Tammy Wynette “standing by
her man;” I just went along with all of it without thinking.
Just blind. I was good old easygoing Brenda and, I realize
now, more a passenger in my life than a driver.
Adrian makes me feel like a real writer. And a wine
aficionado as opposed to a wino. Far away from North
Carolina, it's easier to slip on a new identity. I'm not only a
mother of an adult child and a chief administrative assistant
and a widow and a soon-to-be grandmother. I can be a
writer. A cultured and literary person, independent of my
family ties or my job. Damn it, I am a writer. I've written
a book
Not everyone is a writer and, believe it
or not, not everyone wants to be a writer. And maybe not
everyone should be a writer. But no matter what happens,
I know I'm stuck being a writer. From this point on, one
thing is clear: I can't not write. It's in my blood. It's part
of my being. It's who I am. And nothing could make me
happier. - Publisher's editor
- Tara Tomczyk
- Blurbers
- Richmond, Michelle Shimoda, Todd Candela, Margo, Blumgerg-Kason, Susan
Statistics
- Members
- 3
- Popularity
- 4,752,033
- Languages
- English
- ISBNs
- 1
- ASINs
- 1
