Book Recommendation – How to Age Disgracefully

I picked today’s book off the shelf at the book store because of the title. With a title like How to Age Disgracefully, I had to know what it was about.

This book was such a fun read. I laughed out loud quite a few times and really enjoyed the idiosyncrasies of all the characters. Before I go one, here is the Goodreads synopsis:

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.

The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.

It has been awhile since I’ve read an entire novel in less than two days, but that was the case here. It wasn’t the audiobook either. I couldn’t put this one down. It is one of those books that I didn’t want to end.

There was something unique about each of the seniors in the story. Perhaps it is because I am getting older, but there are times I could relate to each one of them. (FYI: I’m not ready for the home yet!) It was a great story that didn’t require a lot of thinking and is a perfect book to cleanse the palate before diving into another one.

I would definitely pick up a sequel, if one is written in the future.

5 out of 5 stars.