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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Plume Books; Reprint edition (25 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0452289238
  • ISBN-13: 978-0452289239
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 263,326 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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From the Inside Flap

"Certainly not!" said Marie Sharp, when a friend
suggests she join a bookclub when she turns sixty. "Bookclub people
always seem to have to wade through Captain Corelli's Mandolin or, groan,
The God of Small Things. They feel they've forever got to poke their brain
with a pointed stick to keep it working. But either you've got a lively
brain or you haven't. And anyway, I don't want to be young and stimulated
any more.

Those oldies who spend their lives bicycling across Mongolia at
eighty and para-gliding at ninety, aren't brilliant specimens of old age.
No, they're just tragic failures who haven't come to terms with aging. I
want to start doing old things, not young things." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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`Poignant and utterly engaging' The Times

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`Readers will rub their hands together with glee...few books are so
original, so entertaining and so thought-provoking' Daily Express

`This hilarious diary of a mature woman certainly gives Bridget Jones a run
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`Hilarious...It had me laughing out loud on the bus' Woman & Home

`Immense wit and charm' Psychologies

`The babyboomers' answer to Bridget Jones' The Independent --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Oh so true!, 21 Mar 2007
Hilarious! Although I have another five years to go before I reach the big 60 I was definitely able to relate to so much of what Marie had to say for herself. Did not agree with all her comments though!
Sad! The illness of her friend Hughie I did find rather difficult to cope with as I have experience of being in a similar situation to Marie.
Realistic,yes! While reading kept thinking, so true,been there done that, got the same memories.
Worth reading,yes! Especially if you are a woman of a certain age or know one maybe?
Unlike Marie though I do want to remain, at least feeling young, even if not actually so. I want to remain stimulated and will carry on doing young things, rather than old things!!
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44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sixty not out, 2 Oct 2006
By David Collard "Elster" (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Very funny and sad by turns, this is the diary of a retired art teacher, Marie, as she prepares her sixtieth birthday. She's a brittle, sarcastic and for the most part quite loveable woman, as revealed in her ramshackle circle of friends and (more acutely and movingly) her absolute love for her new grandson. In the course of the year a close friend dies (unflinchingly described)and - without giving anything away - Stuff Happens.

There's a great joke about the type of men who wear big hats, many peppery and subversive digressions about sex, online dating, dental issues, what not to wear, old flames and new options.

It's also (I think) one of the very first books to deal with the way baby boomers are squaring up to oblivion. A book for anyone who plans to live beyond sixty.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars FUN, ENTERTAINING, AND GOOD ADVICE, 27 May 2007
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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London advice columnist Virginia Ironside has finally crossed the pond with her first U.S. publication, and that's cause for celebration. No! I Don't Want to Join A Book Club! is a touching, fun-filled diary penned by the fictional Marie Sharp, a woman on the brink of her 60th year.

Marie doesn't quite go gently into her sixth decade as "the best is yet to be" turns out to be merely a poet's dream. Those around her place the emphasis on youth, especially good friend Penny who is about to take up with a man some 30 years younger. And, Marie's much adored friend, Hughie, is quite ill. As if this weren't enough to contend with well wishers insist that she use her new leisure to study, travel or better yet, join a book club. Never vows Marie who is quite happy to be old and needs absolutely no advice about how to spend her time. Besides, she has a definite opinion about book club members: "They feel they've forever got to poke their brain with a pointed stick to keep it working."

Author Ironside delivers a plethora of pungent comments about the state of today's world, especially the Internet. She doesn't gloss over the downside of aging but faces adversities with equanimity and good humor.

The joy of her life is found in being a first time grandmother (although she does have a tendency to obsess about the welfare of her grandson.) And then, there's Archie, the fellow she had a teenage crush on. He's a widower now. Marie has sworn off men, but.......

One of the most recognizable voices on British radio, stage and screen actress Sian Phillips gives a sterling reading as Marie shares her very private thoughts with her diary.

- Gail Cooke
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