The Virginia Monologues: Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old Is Great

by Virginia Ironside | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1905490526 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingDavros-10wing of Banyo, Queensland Australia on 5/13/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by wingDavros-10wing from Banyo, Queensland Australia on Sunday, May 13, 2012
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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Fig Tree (3 Sep 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1905490526
ISBN-13: 978-1905490523
Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 2 cm
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

Review

Perfectly witty, touching, wonderfully heartless, leaves us with the urge to live every day as if it is our last (Independent )

Product Description

When she started to clock up the years in earnest, everyone tried not to mention it. But now Virginia Ironside is actually sixty-five she can't see what all the fuss was about. It's great to be old.

Growing ancient is not a loss but a gain. You're more confident, and if your memory's going, at least you forget the bad times, like all those ghastly men you slept with in the other sixties. And isn't now the time to take lots of drugs, and not just the ones prescribed by the doctor (which are, now you're old, completely free)?

There's nothing more fun than comparing your various ailments with other oldies ('I take so many fish oils I'm thinking of joining an aquarium'), curtain-twitching, complaining or (Virginia's preference) just mooching about.

From Grandchildren ('The reward for not killing your children'), and Being a Bore ('You're in your anecdotage, so nobody can complain') to Sex ('I don't know about you, but I've had enough sex to last me a lifetime'), Virginia Ironside tackles all the issues that face today's elegant and distinguished oldies with optimism and enthusiasm - and makes you want to cheer!"

Journal Entry 2 by wingDavros-10wing at Lutwyche, Queensland Australia on Sunday, June 10, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (6/10/2012 UTC) at Lutwyche, Queensland Australia

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Given to my mother in her (late) Mother's Day parcel. Hope you enjoy it Mum as I'm relying on the opinion of a couple of the ladies at work here.

Also counts towards the 2012 Never Judge A Book By Its Cover Release Challenge: Week 24 (Numbers in the Title).

Journal Entry 3 by wingDavros-10wing at Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Sunday, March 26, 2023

Released 1 yr ago (3/25/2023 UTC) at Brisbane, Queensland Australia

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