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October results, finished the #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge, favorite is the tagged and secures Pooley‘s spot on my favorite author list.

(Bette Davis as Mildred; no Of Human Bondage cover found when making my pic collage.)

#Oct2024 ~44k Litfluence

This is my original book club‘s choice for the month and I enjoyed this quick listen! It‘s a very fun one that had me laughing out loud and taking the extra long way home to keep listening! Multiple perspectives center around a community center on the verge of closing. At 70, Daphne plans on embracing life more fully while Abe, an actor with a shoplifting habit yearns to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Teenage dad Ziggy needs a better life.

The “old people embracing life” genre seems to be everywhere these days…or at least it is on my bookshelf! This is one of the best (so far) and I think is equally as good and endearing as Thursday Murder Club. It‘s about a senior citizens social club fighting against the closure of their community center in partnership with a day care center housed in the same community center. Wonderful characters and a great storyline! ❤️

This book is so much fun (and welcome distraction from US politics) 🤩

#Oct2024 Book93 #LitPie #HumblePie #donotgoeasyintothatgoodnight #LOLfunny

Just starting this one; I am a HUGE fan of Pooley! Love the #foundfamily theme.

2.5/5
Quick, somewhat entertaining read.
While the plot is fun and entertaining, the narration is repetitive, far from subtil, and caricatural. So it gets old fast (pun intended).

This laugh out loud story was cute and fun to read! I could change the names each of the main characters to people I have known in my past. (I was the director of a senior center during part of my working career. We would plan adventures and laugh at the minds of those who had somehow become senior citizens.) I hope each of us age we hold onto fun and adventure. 4.5/5

I am a CP fan for life! Her books always make me laugh and feel good. I like the multigenerational mix of characters and all the fun they have and connections they make.
This one made me think of the show The Outlaws. It‘s set in a run down community centre too, has a disperate cast of characters and connections are made while hijinks ensue
I recommend both

Looking for pointers and moving my reading party into the tub

Loved this. Several elderly folks who all have some slightly (or seriously) shady secrets join a social club at the neighborhood community center and make some friends, help their middle-aged director with her bad marriage, and help a teenaged single father get his life sorted..