Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by me-chase-me from Bad Oeynhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Monday, March 25, 2013
In this hilarious and insightful memoir twenty-five-year-old Rodney Rothman, burned out from his big-city life, decides to get a jumpstart on the golden years...four decades before his time. He retires and moves to South Florida and finds an elderly roommate, Leslie, a former piano teacher with cats. Rodney throws himself into the easy life, but soon finds that all the softball, shuffleboard, bingo, gambling cruises, canasta and tennis is, well, exhausting. After his newfound friends get over the oddity of a twenty-something retiree, he becomes one of them, though not without difficulty. He plays in a senior softball league and finds that most seventy-year-olds are far better athletes than he is. He plans a return to the stage for a reluctant ninety-two-year-old comedian. He finds himself the unwelcome muse and romantic interest of a seventy-seven-year-old femme fatale. And he becomes the last great hope of his shuffleboard team. But early retirement - the dream of so many - is not quite what he expected. "Early Bird" takes readers on a humorous, and often bittersweet, journey through the people and culture of retirement. With a deft comedic touch that evokes Bill Bryson or David Sedaris, Rodney Rothman takes you to where you're going after you get the golden watch.
Journal Entry 2 by Samingo at -- Per Post geschickt / Persönlich weitergegeben --, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Friday, May 31, 2013
Thanks a lot for sending it to me...
I'm curious!
I'm curious!
Very intersting, sometimes funny. And it makes you think about the future...
Journal Entry 4 by Samingo at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Schleswig-Holstein Germany on Friday, November 23, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (11/23/2018 UTC) at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Schleswig-Holstein Germany
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Journal Entry 5 by bluezwuzl at Altdorf (Niederbayern), Bayern Germany on Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Many thanks for this book! It looks like a promising read. And thanks for the assortmemt of labels inside :-)