These are some great summer reads for women thinking about what’s next in their lives. Some are serious, some will make you laugh until you cry, some will make you ache. Biography, autobiography, fiction based on real life — they all made me think and gave me insight into the many facets of a woman’s growth and change.
1. Smart Women Don’t Retire — They Break Free: From Working Full-Time to Living Full-Time by The Transition Network
This collection provides glimpses into the lives of members of The Transition Network. It serves as a roadmap and an inspiration for women over 50 anywhere.
2. She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel
This book gives Haven Kimmel’s take on her mother’s transition from stay-at-home couch potato to college graduate, Masters recipient and English teacher. Told from the perspective of Zippy (Haven as a girl), it is a poignant, funny, endearing glimpse of the impact on one person’s change on the rest of her circle.
3. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott is always wonderful, witty, and touching. This collection reminds me again how to be graceful and grateful no matter what life brings.
4. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
What woman wakes up one day in Michigan and decides that they are going to do volunteer work in Afghanistan? Deborah Rodriguez did, and she shares her struggles and insights in this wonderful book. This should make all of our small fears shrivel up and vanish.
5. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
This is fiction. It’s also the first book I’ve read that gave me insight into the lives of Korean women. Take a look at life transition through a different pair of eyes.
6. Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit by Cheryl Peck
The sub-title says it all: Memoirs of a Misfit. This is an irreverent take on many of life’s challenges as experienced by a round, cat-owning Midwestern lesbian feminist at 50. There are lessons for all of us. Don’t miss the very last (post-bio) page.
7. Crazy Aunt Purl’s Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split by Laurie Perry
How one woman survived her divorce. Funny, real, and even has some easy-to-follow knitting instructions!
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I love anything and everything related to food (growing food, eating food, learning about food)....I think you would LOVE my sister's book (1st place winner of 2012 Gourmand Magazine award in the Fund Raising, Charity and Community division for a USA
If you keep rereading the last chapter, you will never get to the next one..get on with your life.
Do not hide your light so that others won't feel insecure around you. And as you let your light shine, you unconsciously give others the right to do the same.
Organic coconut oil. I was introduced to it by a VN sister a while back. It makes my skin SO smooth and it is great for my thick, curly hair! It has a hundred uses (just look it up online) and it costs so little.
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