It's the start of a semester, and I have to read a book for class. Anyone have suggestions for good books that deal with "health and aging"? Can be fiction or non-fiction, but I'm not sure how far we can get into supernatural metaphor before I lose my instructor.
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
Dawn ,'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 4:20:50 am PDT #21267 of 28406
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 7:07:25 am PDT #21268 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Madeleine L'Engle's The Summer of the Great Grandmother
DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 9:29:45 am PDT #21269 of 28406
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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Interesting.
Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 9:55:04 am PDT #21270 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Her Crosswicks journals are beautifully written, and The Summer of the Great Grandmother is a thoughtful look at aging and dealing with an independent relative who is becoming dependent. Her novel A Severed Wasp also deals with aging.
Another possibility would be M.F.K. Fisher's collection Sister Age. >[link]
Sophia Brooks - Aug 19, 2013 10:41:08 am PDT #21271 of 28406
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I like journals, so I would recommend May Sarton "At Seventy" or After the Stroke.
meara - Aug 19, 2013 10:47:11 am PDT #21272 of 28406
One I would NOT recommend--"My Stroke of Insight". Neuroscientist who had a stroke. Terrible writing.
erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:09:25 am PDT #21273 of 28406
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. Interesting story, but she couldn't tell it. Sometimes I wonder why certain books get so beloved.
Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2013 5:18:11 am PDT #21274 of 28406
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:28:22 am PDT #21275 of 28406
Always Anti-fascist!
(Takes off businessman's Stetson, for moment of silence.)
DavidS - Aug 20, 2013 5:31:35 am PDT #21276 of 28406
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
For as much effect as Leonard had on crime fiction and westerns and movies, his effect on science fiction is also notable. Wm. Gibson didn't really know how to plot out a full novel, so he just copied the structure of an Elmore Leonard book.