Stars: 2.5
Review by: Miss Lucy
Books about getting older depress me, even when they are meant to be funny. (I guess if we don't laugh about it, we'll cry.) That's why I can' t give this book a 3 star rating (3 meaning "I enjoyed it"). This book contains lots of good ramblings on memory lapses and aging signs on one's body, in terms of both looks and health.
One passage that particularly resonates is about Internet passwords:
"There's just no way I
can remember them all. This means I have to change my passwords on a
regular basis. However, some of the sites I visit won't accept the same
password more than ten times, and if I pick
something that isn't a repeat of one I've already used, then I can't
remember the new one. Sometimes, I can't remember my user name, so I
have to create new email accounts just to access those sites, and if I
forget the passwords to those new email addresses,
I'll never get back into them, if I can even remember what these new
email addresses are in the first place."
Another favorite passage describes something her friend does when she can't sleep:
"I make lists and more
lists. I make lists of the lists I need to make. I combine the lists
and prioritize them into one master list, but I realize I've forgotten
so many things that I start the whole process
all over again."
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