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Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation's coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap!, a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges we face and the roads open to us.
For many years Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her fifties she saw her life come apart: She could no longer find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift, but she found that she was not alone.
In Leap!, Davidson sets out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the coming years well. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores such questions as
- How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?
- How can women continue to be sensual and not touch-deprived?
- How do we arrange to grow old with our friends?
- What will be the fire at the center of our lives?
- Why are we still here?
Davidson interviews people from across the country and from all walks of life, including such icons as Carly Simon, Tom Hayden, Tracy Kidder, Jane Fonda, Ram Dass, and Iman, as well as teachers, writers, psychologists, businesspeople, and spiritual leaders. The candid portraits are both inspiring and cautionary.
True to character, boomers will approach these years differently from previous generations, and there will be no single path. Some will feel free for the first time to take risks; others will embark upon a spiritual search; some will want to give back, to make the world a better place; others will want to play or make creativity a priority. But they will not fade quietly into the sunset.
With Leap!, Sara Davidson holds up a mirror for readers, allowing them to see not only themselves and those around them but their potential future. With Davidson as a guide, the possibilities are boundless.
For many years Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her fifties she saw her life come apart: She could no longer find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift, but she found that she was not alone.
In Leap!, Davidson sets out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the coming years well. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores such questions as
- How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?
- How can women continue to be sensual and not touch-deprived?
- How do we arrange to grow old with our friends?
- What will be the fire at the center of our lives?
- Why are we still here?
Davidson interviews people from across the country and from all walks of life, including such icons as Carly Simon, Tom Hayden, Tracy Kidder, Jane Fonda, Ram Dass, and Iman, as well as teachers, writers, psychologists, businesspeople, and spiritual leaders. The candid portraits are both inspiring and cautionary.
True to character, boomers will approach these years differently from previous generations, and there will be no single path. Some will feel free for the first time to take risks; others will embark upon a spiritual search; some will want to give back, to make the world a better place; others will want to play or make creativity a priority. But they will not fade quietly into the sunset.
With Leap!, Sara Davidson holds up a mirror for readers, allowing them to see not only themselves and those around them but their potential future. With Davidson as a guide, the possibilities are boundless.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Sara Davidson
33 books23 followersSara was born in 1943 and grew up in California. She went to Berkeley in the Sixties, where the rite of passage was to "get stoned, get laid and get arrested."
After Berkeley she headed for New York to attend the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Her first job was with the Boston Globe, where she became a national correspondent, covering everything from the election campaigns of Bobby Kennedy and Richard Nixon to the Woodstock Festival and the student strike at Columbia.
Returning to New York, she worked as a free-lance journalist for magazines ranging from Harpers, Esquire and the New York Times to Rolling Stone. She was one of the group who developed the craft of literary journalism, combining the techniques of fiction with rigorous reporting to bring real events and people to life. Her work is collected in the textbook,The Literary Journalists, by Norman Sims.
Sara moved back to California where for 25 years, she alternated between writing for television and writing books. The books tend to fall in the gray zone between memoir and fiction. She uses the voice of the intimate journalist, drawing on material from her life and that of others and shaping it into a narrative that reads like fiction.
In television, she created two drama series, Jack and Mike, and Heart Beat, which ran on A.B.C. She was later co-executive producer of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, wrote hundreds of hours of drama episodes, movies and miniseries, and in 1994 was nominated for a Golden Globe.
In the year 2000, her life began to unravel. She was divorced, her children were leaving for college and she couldn't find work in television. Following her intuition, knowing nobody, she drove to Boulder, Colorado for three months to be a visiting writer at the University of Colorado. She never drove back, and is piecing together a different life which she writes about in Leap
Her current passions are: singing with friends, the "Shady Angels," learning piano, skiing and hiking in the Rockies.
After Berkeley she headed for New York to attend the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Her first job was with the Boston Globe, where she became a national correspondent, covering everything from the election campaigns of Bobby Kennedy and Richard Nixon to the Woodstock Festival and the student strike at Columbia.
Returning to New York, she worked as a free-lance journalist for magazines ranging from Harpers, Esquire and the New York Times to Rolling Stone. She was one of the group who developed the craft of literary journalism, combining the techniques of fiction with rigorous reporting to bring real events and people to life. Her work is collected in the textbook,The Literary Journalists, by Norman Sims.
Sara moved back to California where for 25 years, she alternated between writing for television and writing books. The books tend to fall in the gray zone between memoir and fiction. She uses the voice of the intimate journalist, drawing on material from her life and that of others and shaping it into a narrative that reads like fiction.
In television, she created two drama series, Jack and Mike, and Heart Beat, which ran on A.B.C. She was later co-executive producer of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, wrote hundreds of hours of drama episodes, movies and miniseries, and in 1994 was nominated for a Golden Globe.
In the year 2000, her life began to unravel. She was divorced, her children were leaving for college and she couldn't find work in television. Following her intuition, knowing nobody, she drove to Boulder, Colorado for three months to be a visiting writer at the University of Colorado. She never drove back, and is piecing together a different life which she writes about in Leap
Her current passions are: singing with friends, the "Shady Angels," learning piano, skiing and hiking in the Rockies.
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August 19, 2007
Here's the review I wrote for Amazon:
Poor Sara. She is baffled by the rejection that keeps coming her way. No one wants to buy her self-described "edgy" screenplay that features "a lovable and loyal bloodhound that gets its throat cut while its owner is forced to watch." When she arrives in India a week late for a brief "volunteer vacation" during which she whines about the conditions and sneaks away to a luxury hotel to take a hot shower, she can't understand why the other volunteers want nothing to do with her.
Her attempt to find answers about how to deal with her failures is to interview her large cadre of successful friends and acquaintances. She reassures the reader of each person's worth by listing their accomplishments as well as any famous people with whom they may have worked. Wow! Sara knows someone who used to work for a once-famous entertainer! Sara was once married to a man whose father wrote hit musicals in the thirties! She talked to a plastic surgeon who "will not confirm or deny" that he has worked on famous singers! She knows someone who was once a staff writer for a sitcom! Even the never-famous high school English teacher "taught literature at one of the most rigorous schools in Manhattan." Pity the poor teachers who teach at the less rigorous schools. This book has little use for them. Most of the people interviewed in this book have found at least a modicum of wealth and fame in some artistic endeavor, and Davidson spares the reader little detail as she describes each person's tremendous physical attractiveness and gorgeous, expensive residence.
This book beautifully illustrates the kind of self-absorbed, self-important, self-centered perspective that makes Americans so beloved around the world. Davidson writes about being drawn to relocating to Costa Rica because it "has buzz" as well as free health care paid for by native people described as "cheap labor" and "nonconfrontational." Does a formerly famous baby boomer deserve anything less?
Finally, as other reviewers have mentioned, Davidson takes great pains to point out that dedicating time and effort to helping the needy is no more worthy than maximizing one's own artistic fulfillment. In fact, the entire subtext of this book suggests the latter is a far more noble accomplishment.
But don't take my word for it. Read the review in the New York Times. I've been told it's a very well-regarded publication.
Poor Sara. She is baffled by the rejection that keeps coming her way. No one wants to buy her self-described "edgy" screenplay that features "a lovable and loyal bloodhound that gets its throat cut while its owner is forced to watch." When she arrives in India a week late for a brief "volunteer vacation" during which she whines about the conditions and sneaks away to a luxury hotel to take a hot shower, she can't understand why the other volunteers want nothing to do with her.
Her attempt to find answers about how to deal with her failures is to interview her large cadre of successful friends and acquaintances. She reassures the reader of each person's worth by listing their accomplishments as well as any famous people with whom they may have worked. Wow! Sara knows someone who used to work for a once-famous entertainer! Sara was once married to a man whose father wrote hit musicals in the thirties! She talked to a plastic surgeon who "will not confirm or deny" that he has worked on famous singers! She knows someone who was once a staff writer for a sitcom! Even the never-famous high school English teacher "taught literature at one of the most rigorous schools in Manhattan." Pity the poor teachers who teach at the less rigorous schools. This book has little use for them. Most of the people interviewed in this book have found at least a modicum of wealth and fame in some artistic endeavor, and Davidson spares the reader little detail as she describes each person's tremendous physical attractiveness and gorgeous, expensive residence.
This book beautifully illustrates the kind of self-absorbed, self-important, self-centered perspective that makes Americans so beloved around the world. Davidson writes about being drawn to relocating to Costa Rica because it "has buzz" as well as free health care paid for by native people described as "cheap labor" and "nonconfrontational." Does a formerly famous baby boomer deserve anything less?
Finally, as other reviewers have mentioned, Davidson takes great pains to point out that dedicating time and effort to helping the needy is no more worthy than maximizing one's own artistic fulfillment. In fact, the entire subtext of this book suggests the latter is a far more noble accomplishment.
But don't take my word for it. Read the review in the New York Times. I've been told it's a very well-regarded publication.
July 19, 2013
What bothers me most about Sara Davidson's book is just that: Sara Davidson. While I'm close to going through a quarter life crisis than a mid-life one, I still did find some small nuggets. I enjoyed the people she focuses on and their experiences, how many of them have followed their passions and dreams and just went for broke, taking major risks. That's what kept me reading.
What I couldn't deal with was pessimistic, whiny, hypocritical, cynical, Davidson. She writes like she lives a minimal, holistic, simple life, someone who has the same philosophies of those she's interviewing but it's a fallacy. How can you not like dogs? Or understand what the "Land's End" look is? Or love a song you don't even know the title of? When her article is rejected because she's the "village voice-type", she contends that she never wrote for that publication, missing the point entirely. She almost doesn't go to the ashram that changed the way she saw her mind/body relationship because the other people she meets doesn't want to go and because she's has to go for an interview. She's so wrapped up in herself that she can't even she herself straight.
She's like a one-hit wonder in denial that she won't have another great hit. As Ray Manzack says at the beginning, not everyone even has that one thing and those that do should be glad for it.
As someone who has survived on consistency, Davidson picks people who can't seem to sit still and can't make up their mind, but have the funds for it not to matter.
If you're an aging hippie, flower, love child, whatever, like everyone in this book, you'll love this. For those of us who would rather cut grass than smoke it, move along.
What I couldn't deal with was pessimistic, whiny, hypocritical, cynical, Davidson. She writes like she lives a minimal, holistic, simple life, someone who has the same philosophies of those she's interviewing but it's a fallacy. How can you not like dogs? Or understand what the "Land's End" look is? Or love a song you don't even know the title of? When her article is rejected because she's the "village voice-type", she contends that she never wrote for that publication, missing the point entirely. She almost doesn't go to the ashram that changed the way she saw her mind/body relationship because the other people she meets doesn't want to go and because she's has to go for an interview. She's so wrapped up in herself that she can't even she herself straight.
She's like a one-hit wonder in denial that she won't have another great hit. As Ray Manzack says at the beginning, not everyone even has that one thing and those that do should be glad for it.
As someone who has survived on consistency, Davidson picks people who can't seem to sit still and can't make up their mind, but have the funds for it not to matter.
If you're an aging hippie, flower, love child, whatever, like everyone in this book, you'll love this. For those of us who would rather cut grass than smoke it, move along.
April 13, 2024
This was a surprisingly sad book, with some direction for a happier life (which all seem extremely obvious to people who haven't lived a life focused exclusively on overachieving). The main lesson: be extremely rich and successful.
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July 15, 2010I’ll be honest here Sara Davidson has written the book that literally changed my life, Loose Change a story of three women of the Sixties so I am a tad bit biased on reading anything she has written. Leap, follows Davidson’s usual uses of personal opinion and journalistic approaches to answer the question that is the title of the book. She talks about Baby Boomers and particularly those in the early wave of the boom 1946-1957 and their aging. But this isn’t an age wave or serious study of the impact of a generation. Its a book of tales. Some of the people are pretty famous, Cheryl Tiegs, Tom Hayden, Andrew Weil. Some aren’t and thats the meat of this book. What I learned is that aging, like life itself is following the path that each of us makes. I probably won’t follow Carly Simon’s experience. I couldn’t really could I? But I can learn that yep you can be comfortable and be in a home and have your kids and the time goes on and a relationship ends, the house gets too big, the kids grow up and you get cancer but in all of that you are living you are creating a life. This book doesn’t give you goals or guides on how to age it simply shows you what other people are doing and in some way that made me comfortable in my own aging. I wrote Sara an email earlier this year and talked to her about what her books have meant to me and she was interested in what I would think about this book well she has done it again she wrote a book that touched my life. I hope you read it and it touches yours. --Terri
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December 23, 2009
There were a couple of paragraphs in this book that were interesting - but so much of the book seemed not to reasonably apply to anyone other than the author and her friends. So many of the people seemed to struggle to maintain relationships. Highly creative, they seemed to flit from one thing to another. I was reading Eat, Pray, Love - which explored a similar theme - how to live a life so that it is 'well-lived' - meaningful, memorable, and modestly happy - and found the comparison left 'Leap' lacking.
September 12, 2009
This should be subtitled \"What Will We (the rich, self-indulgent, with no obligations) Do With the Rest of Our Lives\"
December 31, 2014
Interesting quick read, but definitely written from a rarefied position. Cover subtitled "Reflections from the Boomer Generation", this book reflects only an elite portion of the generation.
May 5, 2013
If you like celebrity interviews and self centered baby boomer second acts, this book is for you. I found enough meaning and value in this collection of interviews to finish it, but just barely.
January 13, 2018
Some years ago now I read Ms. Davidson's memoir "Loose Change: Three Women from the Sixties." I wanted to know what she'd written in recent years and found this book that was published in 2006. Based on both interviews with people of the Baby Boom Generation as they were reaching their 50s and 60s in the late 1990s and early aughts and also Ms. Davidson's own experiences, this book gives a glimpse into how this generation is approaching getting older.
While many of the people that she discusses and interviews are fairly accomplished writers and artists and therefore are financially fairly well off, it is still interesting to see how this group of people, who are either forerunners or at the forefront of this generation, are coping. Since Ms. Davidson, herself, is at a crossroads and seeking what to do next with her life, she meets up with people who are in some ways in the same boat (i.e., beginning again as they approach old age) and others who have been forging a new path for several years (different than what these people had been doing when they were younger). Chapters delve into relationships, work concerns, housing issues, volunteering and spirituality.
Now it is 12 years later since this book's publication and the U.S. has gone through an economic recession, an African American President who's served two terms, the ending of the war in Iraq, and the election of a new and controversial President. I'm not sure if any of these situations would affect Ms. Davidson and the people she interviews and discusses.
The book has given me some food for thought. Not to be myopic, it occurred to me that I am right now about the same age as Ms. Davidson was when she was writing and researching this book. Some of the changes I've experienced personally in the past few years I was not prepared for and yet the people portrayed in this work all seem to have made fairly conscious decisions about how they want to live out the rest of their lives. Maybe that is what should be gleaned from this work.
While many of the people that she discusses and interviews are fairly accomplished writers and artists and therefore are financially fairly well off, it is still interesting to see how this group of people, who are either forerunners or at the forefront of this generation, are coping. Since Ms. Davidson, herself, is at a crossroads and seeking what to do next with her life, she meets up with people who are in some ways in the same boat (i.e., beginning again as they approach old age) and others who have been forging a new path for several years (different than what these people had been doing when they were younger). Chapters delve into relationships, work concerns, housing issues, volunteering and spirituality.
Now it is 12 years later since this book's publication and the U.S. has gone through an economic recession, an African American President who's served two terms, the ending of the war in Iraq, and the election of a new and controversial President. I'm not sure if any of these situations would affect Ms. Davidson and the people she interviews and discusses.
The book has given me some food for thought. Not to be myopic, it occurred to me that I am right now about the same age as Ms. Davidson was when she was writing and researching this book. Some of the changes I've experienced personally in the past few years I was not prepared for and yet the people portrayed in this work all seem to have made fairly conscious decisions about how they want to live out the rest of their lives. Maybe that is what should be gleaned from this work.
January 5, 2024
Such a challenging read
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POPSUGAR challenge prompt 1 A book with “leap” in the title.
I rarely give just one star. I mean, come on, you wrote a whole book-good on you. But this book. Ugh. This book. I think I’m just not the right generation for it? Maybe if I was a Boomer I would like it more? The author is…unlikable (sorry!, no really, it’s hard to even write that). Such a woe-is-me, why-can’t-I-have-everything-just-the-way-I-want-it attitude! Such a sense of entitlement! Who goes to India on a spiritual & service journey (ostensibly reminiscent of Peace Corps style trips) but slips out to the local tailor and pops into the five star hotel to take a hot shower, then heads back to the meager accommodations bragging about how great it is to have clean hair to the other pilgrims?!? Honestly, WHO DOES THAT?!? I wanted a thoughtful read about the next stage of life (I plan to retire in 2 years) but this was not it!
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POPSUGAR challenge prompt 1 A book with “leap” in the title.
I rarely give just one star. I mean, come on, you wrote a whole book-good on you. But this book. Ugh. This book. I think I’m just not the right generation for it? Maybe if I was a Boomer I would like it more? The author is…unlikable (sorry!, no really, it’s hard to even write that). Such a woe-is-me, why-can’t-I-have-everything-just-the-way-I-want-it attitude! Such a sense of entitlement! Who goes to India on a spiritual & service journey (ostensibly reminiscent of Peace Corps style trips) but slips out to the local tailor and pops into the five star hotel to take a hot shower, then heads back to the meager accommodations bragging about how great it is to have clean hair to the other pilgrims?!? Honestly, WHO DOES THAT?!? I wanted a thoughtful read about the next stage of life (I plan to retire in 2 years) but this was not it!
July 4, 2024
I was thoroughly captivated by the numerous ways that people reinvent, challenge, cast off, die, give up, and find peace. I am turning 50 in just a couple years and finding myself at this place of change. I somehow find it more difficult than my 20s, since I now am equipped with experiences that make things both easier and more complicated. Also, trauma. I found some peace in this book. It reminds me that life is a journey with many hills and valleys.
My favorite quote "a gradual letting go, through which alone the emptiness comes, into which the glory may enter" from Old Age: Journey into Simplicity.
So, I work to simplify. Which is something I know brings me peace, always.
My favorite quote "a gradual letting go, through which alone the emptiness comes, into which the glory may enter" from Old Age: Journey into Simplicity.
So, I work to simplify. Which is something I know brings me peace, always.
February 11, 2018
Tedious and outdated. Couldn’t finish it.
March 7, 2020
Obviously this was not written for me as I felt the author was condescending at times in the book. Premise was good but I am not into drugs, sex and being a hippie at 70.
April 24, 2025
I agree with the other reviews, except the book was worth reading for the last three chapters. Lots to consider. I will give one of her other books a chance.
February 5, 2017
I enjoyed this book because the author, Sara Davidson, embarked on a journey of self-discovery in much the same spirit as the author of Eat, Pray, Love and found how challenging and multi-faceted this journey is at any age. She focuses on the lives of people in their 50s, 60s and beyond, many of whom had lived phenomenally successful lives and then hit a period of major change either through loss in the form of divorce, death, or disability, or the loss of a feeling of significance, physical beauty, or cultural relevance or spiritual purpose. The range of issues is wide and complex and so many people will be able to relate to them, but the weakness of the book is that the people who suffer these losses are also drawn from an elite strata of the successful and wealthy, powerful and influential. One feels that even if they never come to a satisfactory answer to the ultimate question of what Life's about, their lives will be pretty comfortable nevertheless. However, it is engaging and there are some strategies for how to live the latter half of life. At times thought provoking and engaging, at times breezy, it is a great read for a long drive.
April 14, 2009
The title says it all. This book explores the aging of the boomer generation as seen through the eyes of Sara Davidson. A lot of it, as it concerns Davidson and her circle, didn’t apply to me and my life, yet it made me think. Varied chapters explored work, sex, bodies, religion, housing and other topics. I want to buy this book, so I can reread it and refer to it again and again. As to work, the question was posed, “How does one learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?” But my favorite quote, from a rabbi, Tirzah Firestone, is, “The image I’m seeing is of a field that’s being plowed so it will be fertile. But it’s winter and… Nothing is growing above the ground. You need to be patient, accept that this is a fallow time, and in the right season, something important will arise.” I am patiently waiting.
June 3, 2016
Having recently retired I thought this might be of interest to me. The first chapter had me hooked. "You were big once upon a time, and you don't have it anymore." For those of us that made our career our life, who are we when we leave our career? By chapter four I was quickly losing interest. What was the purpose of including a detailed description of a facelift procedure a doctor let you watch? Were you bragging that you didn't get sick seeing this in person yet I was feeling squeamish just reading about it? From that point forward I skimmed the book. Some stories were interesting but some were far too detailed. The description of the trip to Costa Rica is in the latter category. I started flipping pages until the next topic appeared. I am glad I borrowed the book from the library and didn't purchase it.
January 7, 2014
I'd agree with other reviewers that this was a marginal read. In short, it's a retelling, by the author, of stories from people's lives who are much more interesting than her own, and much-disconnected from any middle class experience. If the tantric sex elaboration hadn't been in the middle of the book, I'm not sure I'd have made it through it. Only few take home messages were, yes, there's life after 60; interdependence with another human being without giving up ourselves is good; relationship should be about two whole beings leaning on one another equally; and transcendent sex is about union/feeling united, not technique. That is about sums it up.
August 18, 2008
First and foremost I loved reading about Boulder, the mountains, Dushanbe Teahouse (my favorite spot), other former "home" places and people. The book was nothing what I expected and completely surprised me and I enjoyed it mostly for the sheer bluntness and variety of people and experiences. Interesting to hear people with fame and money muse about what to do next but not much for "regular" folks still trying to make a buck - other than - we all have to follow our own guidance and take that "leap"!
July 29, 2011
I bought this book after hearing an interview with the author on NPR. Davidson spent three years researching and writing this book that deals with the many ways that baby boomers deal with change and aging. I picked it up and read it at different intervals, mainly because I found the content intense at times and not always easy to process. However, I recommend this book to anyone who is going through a major life change, especially those of the baby boomer generation. There is much insightful information here, shared by many who have walked and chosen different paths in their lives.
July 13, 2008
This is a non-fiction book that talks, I think primarily to women, about how they want their post-50 years to be. I am closing in on 50 and made a huge change this year, for the same reasons she talks about. What do I want the last half of my life to be? Many people have had the big career, but find that as they get a little older, they are looking for more meaning. This books addresses that and more.
June 2, 2009
With Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives Sara Davidson, a witty social observer, offers a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges baby boomers face.
We met Sara Davidson when she visited the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver. You can listen to her talk about With Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives here: http://www.authorsontourlive.com/?p=102
We met Sara Davidson when she visited the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver. You can listen to her talk about With Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives here: http://www.authorsontourlive.com/?p=102
January 7, 2013
I found the book thought provoking. Many of the questions Sara raises for herself certainly apply and the quest for life fulfillment beyond childrearing and climbing the ladder is a valid one. I agree with one other reviewer who found her to be reaching to hard to validate her success and the success of her interviewees. She seemed a little whiny as well. Shoot, we know this is hard or we wouldn't need to read the book.
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May 14, 2014I liked Sara Davidon's book Leap because I am close to where she is in life. I really liked that she researched all aspects of each type of living. We have considered Boulder also so that is interesting. Not for everyone, but it worked for me, finding where you fit and how to live happily may take a pretty big change so LEAP!
July 2, 2015
Narcissistic, name-dropping, marshmallow fluff. But I stuck it out until the end because of my morbid fascination with the unintentional irony generated by the self-absorbed. See especially Davidson's description of her time volunteering in an Indian orphanage. And the inclusion of a quote which compared Davidson to Faulkner. In a positive way.
August 17, 2011
I listened this book because I love the narrator.
Inside, it tells me about the life after mid life crisis.
This book gives me an insight not to look at the life after 50 or 60 is not the life of full of disappointment. To live life fully, we need to struggle to change ourselves.
Inside, it tells me about the life after mid life crisis.
This book gives me an insight not to look at the life after 50 or 60 is not the life of full of disappointment. To live life fully, we need to struggle to change ourselves.
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June 15, 2007See my reviews at www.savvythinker.com (search for the book or author to pull up the post.)
August 24, 2008
inspiring
November 6, 2008
Great book and very informative
March 24, 2009
This one is for Boomers. For a self help book it was good.
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