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Carregando... Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?de Ian Brown
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  writemoves | Jan 30, 2017 |   The enduring voice in this book is of a man in late middle age trying to come to terms with what is declining, but failing in his task. He will not go gentle into that good night, if only because he is busy banging his head at his misfortune. He is beset with regret at goals not accomplished, honors not won, self-esteem not sufficiently gratified. One commiserates with him, for his is not the wisdom devoutly to be wished at 60. Might he be a little further along in his personal evolution at this point? Surely I am being judgmental. We should respect his honesty: he admits his shortcomings openly before us. And yet there is something essentially immature, I think, in this account. Much could be redeemed by cultivating one indispensable attitude: gratitude. I struggle to find the gratitude for all life has given him at 60 that suffuses the work of Paul Kalanithi (When Breath Becomes Air), whose life came to a premature end at 37. I know a book to recommend to Mr. Brown. (  ) stellarexplorer | Sep 25, 2016 | Ian Brown decides to keep a journal of the year he turns sixty and that's this book. He's balding and he tires more easily and he worries about whether he can still write and he knows he's slowing down; Brown shares all the aches and pains of his new life as an old man, and interweaves the information he's learned from the thorough research he's done about the changes our bodies undergo as we age. You will want to read it, too, if you are approaching this pivotal age yourself or you are on the other side of it.* It's good preparation. It's good fun, too. *One small footnote: It's written by a man and it's from a man's point of view and most of the facts are about men at sixty. Just know that going in. (  ) debnance | Jul 4, 2016 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"Ian Brown began keeping a diary of his sixty-first year with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as wanting to maintain a running tally on how he survived the year, Brown set out to explore what being sixty means physically, psychologically, and intellectually. 'What pleasures are gone forever? Which ones, if any, are left? What did Beethoven, or Schubert, or Jagger, or Henry Moore, or Lucian Freud do after they turned sixty?' And more importantly, 'How much life can you live in the fourth quarter, not knowing when the game might end?'"--Provided by publisher.
"From the author of the award-winning The Boy in the Moon comes a wickedly honest and brutally funny account of the year in which Ian Brown truly realized that the man in the mirror was actually...sixty. Sixty is a report from the front, a dispatch from the Maginot Line that divides the middle-aged from the soon to be elderly. As Ian writes, 'It is the age when the body begins to dominate the mind, or vice versa, when time begins to disappear and loom, but never in a good way, when you have no choice but to admit that people have stopped looking your way, and that in fact they stopped twenty years ago.' Ian began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as keeping a running tally on how he survived the year, Ian explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. 'What pleasures are gone forever? Which ones, if any, are left? What did Beethoven, or Schubert, or Jagger, or Henry Moore, or Lucien Freud do after they turned sixty?' And most importantly, 'How much life can you live in the fourth quarter, not knowing when the game might end?' With formidable candour, he tries to answer this question: 'Does aging and elderliness deserve to be dreaded--and how much of that dread can be held at bay by a reasonable human being?' For that matter, for a man of sixty, what even constitutes reasonableness?"--Amazon.com. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I can't say that I learned anything new from reading this book – – maybe that was not the author's intention. It certainly wasn't a book that uplifted my spirits – – that's for sure. (