The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up: A Breakthrough Medical Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Steven Masley

(Posted for Paul Mathews)

I believed this book could help me understand arterial plaque more and what we can do.

Audio:  9 hrs. 10 min.
Print:  400 pages

Bettyville: a Memoir by George Hodgman

George Hodgman grew up in Madison and Paris, in Northeast Missouri. After college, he moved to New York City and worked as an editor and author. A few years ago, he came home to check on his Mother, Betty, who, at 90, is becoming more and more confused and less and less able to function on her own. Having lost his job, he ended up staying in Paris to take care of Betty.

In this memoir, he writes about his childhood in rural Missouri, his parents, Betty and Big George, and his feeling of having 'something wrong' with him all the time. As a gay man in a household and a town where homosexuality was never spoken about, he felt compelled to get away, even though he loved his home and loved his town.

And he writes about taking care of an elderly parent who can no longer be the independent person she wants to be, the one she always was. He writes with low-keyed but powerful imagery of the frustrations and sense of uncertainty of becoming the parent to a parent.

A beautiful, well-written exploration of family, friendship and community.

288 pages

A Little Help From My Friends…And Other Hilarious Tales of Graying Graciously by Jean Carnahan

 

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Jean Carnahan, having attained the grand age of 77, decided to share her experiences with those of us coming along behind her. In a series of 38 essays in which she converses with her imaginary friend Edna, she addresses such topics as malls, manners, makeup, beauty secrets, bras, airport security, grandchildren, habits, health, and much, much more.

“We’ve tackled the aggravations of aging the only way we knew how,” says the former U.S. Senator, “with sunny abandonment.”

She reveals the 100 Signs that You May Be Getting Old, the 30 Laws of Inevitability, the 47 Things She Misses from the Good Old Days, and the 31 Things She Doesn’t Miss at all. Fortunately, as she says, laughing at life never gets old.

 

I found this a thoroughly enjoyable and very quick read.

192 pages