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by Alison Rattle

Et ole enää samanlainen kuin viisi vuotta sitten. Muutos tapahtui vähitellen tai ihan yhtäkkiä. Eräänä päivänä sinua teititeltiin ruokakaupassa tai yks kaks sait päähäsi ostaa viimeisen päälle käytännöllisen sadeasun. Keski-ikäistymisessä on hyviäkin puolia: sinun ei tarvitse enää valvoa aamuneljään tai olla innostunut Twitterin uusitusta ilmeestä. Tämä kirja kertoo keski-iän ensimerkeistä siihen, että lähdet kirjakauppaan hankkimaan tyttärellesi synttärilahjaksi Facebookia - kirjan luettuasi tiedät taatusti, milloin pelisi on pelattu. Eikä siinä mitään. On vain tullut aika, jolloin on hauskempaa katsoa rauhassa kotona Sinkkuelämää DVD-boxilta tai jutella ystävien kanssa kaikenmaailman krempoista, joita tuntuu sitten viime näkemän ilmaantuneen.

Genres: Humor

172 pages, Hardcover

First published May 13, 2010

About the author

Alison Rattle grew up in Liverpool, and now lives in a medieval house in Somerset with her three teenage children, her partner - a carpenter - an extremely naughty Jack Russell and a ghost cat. She has co-authored a number of non-fiction titles on subjects as diverse as growing old, mad monarchs, how to boil a flamingo, the history of America and the biography of a nineteenth-century baby killer. She has worked as a fashion designer, a production controller, a painter and decorator, a barmaid, and now owns and runs a vintage tea room.

Reviews

[Aïsha Atherly · Rating 1 out of 5]

What made this author think that it was a good idea to try to dictate to women what they should/should not wear after a certain age?

Anyway Alison, if you ever read this I'm so sorry that you were not blessed with any talents or gifts for writing. I hope you've found your 'thing' by now. Also, your hair cut is ugly.

[Helen · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a pile of crap! These ‘authors’ have basically copy and pasted every joke, cliche and story about being middle aged from the internet, claimed they wrote a book and had the audacity to charge £10 for it. There’s no point reading past the first page, no idea how they dragged it out for 160 pages

[Jitendra Mulay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice concept and a lot expected to read about it. The start is good and one can see themselves in mirror, however later it gets with other stuff which feels not much relevant to the original subject of discussion. Could have been better.

[Gail Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny!!!

[Hayley Edwards · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the things in this book made me smile but it wasn't a book I'd buy for myself someone bought it for me thought it would give me a good laugh, it didn't.

[Stuart · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rubbish. A complete waste of money. There was barely one original thought in this book. All it appeared to be was a collection of other people's work and jokes that somehow related to middle-age. It was obviously put together by two 30-something spinsters that couldn't keep a boyfriend, as much of the content appeared intended for that demographic.

Don't bother.

[Jill · Rating 2 out of 5]

though i fall into their age range of over 30, this book contained little to which I could relate...and I also didn't think it was that funny.

[Andrea · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lame. What a waste of reading time.

[Saskia · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5