Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?
3 journalers for this copy...
I'm turning sixty this year, and my husband did so last month, and all my old friends either just have or are just about to, so how could I pass up this little memoir?
Ian Brown decides to keep a journal of the year he turns sixty and that's this book. He's balding and he tires more easily and he worries about whether he can still write and he knows he's slowing down; Brown shares all the aches and pains of his new life as an old man, and interweaves the information he's learned from the thorough research he's done about the changes our bodies undergo as we age.
You will want to read it, too, if you are approaching this pivotal age yourself or you are on the other side of it.* It's good preparation. It's good fun, too.
*One small footnote: It's written by a man and it's from a man's point of view and most of the facts are about men at sixty. Just know that going in.
Ian Brown decides to keep a journal of the year he turns sixty and that's this book. He's balding and he tires more easily and he worries about whether he can still write and he knows he's slowing down; Brown shares all the aches and pains of his new life as an old man, and interweaves the information he's learned from the thorough research he's done about the changes our bodies undergo as we age.
You will want to read it, too, if you are approaching this pivotal age yourself or you are on the other side of it.* It's good preparation. It's good fun, too.
*One small footnote: It's written by a man and it's from a man's point of view and most of the facts are about men at sixty. Just know that going in.
Journal Entry 2 by debnance at United States Post Office - 455 E. House St. in Alvin, Texas USA on Sunday, September 18, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (9/22/2016 UTC) at United States Post Office - 455 E. House St. in Alvin, Texas USA
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Off to a new reader!
Chosen from the Many Many Memoirs Book Box. I also turned 60 in June.
Journal Entry 4 by 
heartthumper
at Bookbox in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Sunday, July 30, 2017
heartthumper at Bookbox in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Sunday, July 30, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (7/26/2017 UTC) at Bookbox in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
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Adding to the colors book box.
Have chosen this book from innae's US Bookbox - Colors. https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/542280
Reserved for booklady331's Round 9: Traveling US Non-Fiction VBB
https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/518393
From Amazon...
“This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men.”
As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown’s sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. Brown chose instead to notice every moment—to try to capture precisely what he was experiencing, without panicking. Sixty is the result: an uncensored, seriocomic report, a slalom of day-to-day dramas (as husband, father, brother, friend, and neighbor), inquisitive reporting, and acute insights from the line between middle-aged and soon-to-be-elderly.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/518393
From Amazon...
“This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men.”
As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown’s sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. Brown chose instead to notice every moment—to try to capture precisely what he was experiencing, without panicking. Sixty is the result: an uncensored, seriocomic report, a slalom of day-to-day dramas (as husband, father, brother, friend, and neighbor), inquisitive reporting, and acute insights from the line between middle-aged and soon-to-be-elderly.
