[bksvol-discuss] Re: I'm Too Young to be Seventy
- From: Cindy <cindyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:56:06 -0800
The major problem my friends and I have found is that we don't look the way we
feel. It's a shock every time I look into the mirror. I feel like I'm in my 20s
or maybe 30s at the oldest, but my mirror shows me a different person.
Cindy
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> Sent: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:49:59 -0800 (PST)
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I'm Too Young to be Seventy
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> I just submitted the book of poetry by Judith Viorst,
> author of Suddenly Sixty.
>
> From the dust jacket:
>
> Fans of Judith Viorst's funny, touching, and wise
> poems about turning thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty
> will love this new volume for the woman who deeply
> believes she is too young to be seventy, "too young in
> my heart and my soul, if not in my thighs."
> Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this
> stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth,
> how we can stay married though thermostatically
> incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and
> shopping. Readers will nod with rueful recognition
> when she asks, "Am I required to think of myself as a
> basically shallow woman because I feel better when my
> hair looks good?," when she presses a few helpful
> suggestions on her kids because "they may be middle
> aged, but they're still my children," and when she
> graciously—but not too graciously—selects her
> husband's next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled
> "If I Should Die Before 4 Wake, Here's the Wife You
> Next Should Take." Though Viorst acknowl¬edges she is
> definitely not a good sport about the fact that she is
> mortal, her poems are full of the pleasures of life
> right now, helping us come to terms with the passage
> of time, encouraging us to keep trying to fix the
> world, and inviting us to consider "drinking wine,
> making love, laughing hard, caring hard, and learning
> a new trick or two as part of our job description at
> seventy."
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> Jamie in Michigan
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