Some books expand our horizons by taking us far away, in time or space or situation. Others shed a light on the place where we are. One of my favorite recent reads is No! I Don't Want to Join A Book Club: Diary of a 60th Year by Virginia Ironside. It so happens that several of my friends will turn sixty this year, or in the next year or two. A few have already done so. So I do have an interest in this age group. (The...
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It's difficult for me to laugh and think at the same time, particularly when I'm laughing so hard I have to reach for the tissue. But I managed all the way through my consumption of Virginia Ironside's fictional diary of Marie Sharp's journey through her sixtieth year (and a bit). Marie's not fighting it, rather she is planning to embrace it. She'd love to "start doing old things," if people would only let her. Hence the...
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diary of a woman, Marie Sharp, celebrating the pleasures of finally being 60 and all the perks that go with having arrived. The author even has a new acronym to go with it: SWELL (Sixty, Well Off and Enjoying Life). No bungee jumping, adventure travels or book clubs for Marie. She just wants to savor 'acting' her age and spending time with her first grandchild. This diary of her 60th year begins shortly before her 60th...
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Refreshing to read about a woman who is unapologetic about and refuses to buy into modern ideas and cliches about what it means to get older.
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Finally a book I can read without wanting to throw it at the wall. I can't tell you how many books (new pubs)I've started and put down because they were just awful. This one is real with good writing and even though I'm not almost 60-something it was highly enjoyable. It didn't even have the requisite (lately) graphic sex scene, thank God. When Hugh Grant gets to be 59 he can play Archie. I'm not a great reviewer, let those...
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