No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a 60th Year, Virginia Ironside
Hello fellow readers and Silver Vixens. I bring you a note about my latest reading pleasure and what it holds in store for you.
No, I Don't Want to Join a Book Club is a charming, easily read book in diary format, recorded by a sharp-witted yet gentle and compassionate character, Marie Sharp. The British author, Virginia Ironside (and I do love that name) writes as if we're all either Marie's next door neighbor, observing the world through her eyes, or her best friend to whom she "chats" each day, sometimes twice a day. The book is intimate about topics ranging from her advice about sex after 60 to her joy when she is presented with and then can't get enough of her first grandchild. It's personal, iconoclastic, funny, witty, and, to be honest, sometimes a bit boring. But then our daily lives can be, can't they?
Lest I leave you with the impression that this little gem is just about ageing, slowing down and disagreeable people, Marie is definitely alive, well, and living in the moments of being 60 and beyond. Did I mention sex and romance? I wish her many happy, "in the moment"days. And the same to you.
Donna Doberstein