Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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."
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]
I like journals, so I would recommend May Sarton "At Seventy" or After the Stroke.
One I would NOT recommend--"My Stroke of Insight". Neuroscientist who had a stroke. Terrible writing.
wrod. Interesting story, but she couldn't tell it. Sometimes I wonder why certain books get so beloved.
(Takes off businessman's Stetson, for moment of silence.)
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.
RIP
Thanks for giving us Jackie Brown, Mr. Leonard.
wrod. And "Out of Sight", and Raylan Givens.