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[PDF] Unexpectedly Eighty: And Other Adaptations (Judith Viorst's Decades)

Copy Link : https://good.readbooks.link/yup/1439190291 | Judith Viorst returns with more poems in her &#8220Decades&#8221 poetry series detailing the highs and lows of being an octogenarian. Continuing the comedic insight from I&#8217m Too Young to be Seventy, these verses of memories and advice from eighty years of love, marriage, and grandchildren are sure to bring laughs.What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses love, friendship, grand parenthood, and all the particular marvels&#8212and otherwise&#8212of this extraordinary decade. She describes the wonder of seeing the world with new eyes&#8212not because of revelation but because of a successful cataract operation. She promises not to gently fade away, and not to drive after daylight&#8217s faded away either. She explains how she&#8217s gotten to be a &#8220three-desserts&#8221 grandmother (&#8220Just don&#8217t tell your mom!&#8221), shares how memory failure can keep you married, and enumerates her hopes for the afterlife (which she doesn&#8217t believe in, but if it does exist, her sister-in-law better not be there with her). As Viorst gleefully attests, eighty is not too old to dream, to flirt, to drink, and to dance. It&#8217s also not too late to give up being cheap or to take up with a younger man of seventy-eight. Zesty, hopeful, and full of the pleasures of living, Viorst&#8217s poems speak to her legions of readers, who recognize themselves in her knowing observations, in her touching reflections, and in her joyful affirmations. Funny, moving, inspirational, and true&#8212the newest in Judith Viorst&#8217s beloved &#8220decades&#8221 series extols the virtues, victories, frustrations, and joys of life.

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| Judith Viorst returns with more poems in her &#8220Decades&#8221 poetry series detailing the highs and lows of being an octogenarian. Continuing the comedic insight from I&#8217m Too Young to be Seventy, these verses of memories and advice from eighty years of love, marriage, and grandchildren are sure to bring laughs.What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses love, friendship, grand parenthood, and all the particular marvels&#8212and otherwise&#8212of this extraordinary decade. She describes the wonder of seeing the world with new eyes&#8212not because of revelation but because of a successful cataract operation. She promises not to gently fade away, and not to drive after daylight&#8217s faded away either. She explains how she&#8217s gotten to be a &#8220three-desserts&#8221 grandmother (&#8220Just don&#8217t tell your mom!&#8221), shares how memory failure can keep you married, and enumerates her hopes for the afterlife (which she doesn&#8217t believe in, but if it does exist, her sister-in-law better not be there with her). As Viorst gleefully attests, eighty is not too old to dream, to flirt, to drink, and to dance. It&#8217s also not too late to give up being cheap or to take up with a younger man of seventy-eight. Zesty, hopeful, and full of the pleasures of living, Viorst&#8217s poems speak to her legions of readers, who recognize themselves in her knowing observations, in her touching reflections, and in her joyful affirmations. Funny, moving, inspirational, and true&#8212the newest in Judith Viorst&#8217s beloved &#8220decades&#8221 series extols the virtues, victories, frustrations, and joys of life.

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[PDF] Unexpectedly Eighty: And Other Adaptations

(Judith Viorst's Decades)

[PDF] Unexpectedly Eighty: And Other Adaptations (Judith

Viorst's Decades)

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Judith Viorst returns with more poems in her &#8220Deades&#8221poetry

series detailing the highs and lows of being an octogenarian. Continuing the

comedic insight from I&#8217mToo Young to be Seventy, these verses of

memories and advice from eighty years of love, marriage, and grandchildren

are sure to bring laughs.What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and

playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses love, friendship, grand parenthood, and

all the particular marvels&#8212an otherwise&#8212ofthis extraordinary

decade. She describes the wonder of seeing the world with new

eyes&#8212no because of revelation but because of a successful cataract

operation. She promises not to gently fade away, and not to drive after

daylight&#8217sfaded away either. She explains how she&#8217sgotten to be

a &#8220thee-desserts&#8221grandmother (&#8220Jut don&#8217ttell your

mom!&#8221, shares how memory failure can keep you married, and

enumerates her hopes for the afterlife (which she doesn&#8217tbelieve in, but

if it does exist, her sister-in-law better not be there with her). As Viorst gleefully

attests, eighty is not too old to dream, to flirt, to drink, and to dance.


It&#8217salso not too late to give up being cheap or to take up with a younger

man of seventy-eight. Zesty, hopeful, and full of the pleasures of living,

Viorst&#8217spoems speak to her legions of readers, who recognize

themselves in her knowing observations, in her touching reflections, and in her

joyful affirmations. Funny, moving, inspirational, and true&#8212th newest in

Judith Viorst&#8217sbeloved &#8220deades&#8221series extols the virtues,

victories, frustrations, and joys of life.

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