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No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.51 x 8.26in | 240 pages | ISBN 9780670038183 | 05 Apr 2007 | Viking Adult |
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A delightful novel about letting go of youth and embracing the sassy curmudgeon within Don’t harass her about parasailing or taking Italian language courses. Forget about suggesting she join a gym. Marie Sharp may be a little creaky in the bones as she heads toward the big 6-0, but she’s fine with it. She would rather do without all the moving-to-Florida-bicycling-across- Mongolia-for-the-hell-of-it hoopla that her friends insist upon. She’s already led an exciting life: She came of age in the 1960s, after all. Now, with both a new grandchild and a new man on the horizon, all she wants to do is make the most of what she considers the most interesting stage of her life. In this wonderfully astute novel based on the author’s own experiences, No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club is the funny—and often poignant—fictionalized diary of an older woman . . . a decade or two past her prime and content to leave it all behind her. So don’t tell her to take a gourmet cooking class, and whatever you do, don’t you dare tell her to join a book club. Fresh and truly unique, moving gracefully on in years has never been more hilarious than in this forthright grandma’s take on the “third phase” of life.
“[Ironside] has done her readers a wonderful service in giving us the fictional Marie Sharp.... No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club is, in fact, a perfect choice for book clubs. It takes on the biggest issues—our lives, loves, deaths—in acerbic, tender, thoughtful ways. Perfect for clubs, perfect for (almost) everybody.”
—The Washington Post
“Screamingly funny…reads like an AARP-issued Bridget Jones’ Diary….This is the kind of book you gobble up, then re-read so you can hoot out loud all over again.”
—USA Today
“Marie’s wicked sense of humor makes this a fun read. . . . This novel is more than a light romp. Marie shows great heart and wisdom as she experiences joys and sorrows.”
—The Herald Sun
“So funny and human, so full of cranky wisdom and plucky resistance to the ordinary ways of facing old age. I’m thinking of reading No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club once a year from here on in to cheer myself up. If you’re over fifty, you should read it, too.”
—The Buffalo News
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