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SUMMARY:Blue Island Bookworms – “How to Be Old”
DESCRIPTION:Join the Friends of the Blue Island Public Library for lively discussion of current titles.\nThe title discussed on May 6 will be How to Be Old by Lyn Slater.\n“A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.\nWhen Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose of self-acceptance, they found in her an alternative model of older someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have the opportunity to be relevant and take major risks at any stage of their life. Youth is not the only time we can be experimental.\nHow to Be Old tells the ten-year story of Lyn’s sixties, the sometimes-glamorous, sometimes-turbulent decade of Accidental Icon. This memoir is about the hopeful and future-oriented process of reinvention. It shows readers that while you can’t control everything, what you can control is the way you think about your age and the creative ways you respond to the changes in your mind and body as they happen. Rather than trying to meet standards of youth and beauty as a measure of successful aging, Lyn promotes a more inclusive and empowering standard to judge our older selves by.\nIn this paradigm-shifting memoir, Lyn exemplifies that even with its unique challenges, being old is just like any new beginning in your life and can be the best and most invigorating of all of life’s phases, full of rebellion and reinvention, connection and creativity.“\nSummary taken from Goodreads.com\n
URL:https://blueislandlibrary.org/events/blue-island-bookworms-how-to-be-old
ORGANIZER;CN=Micah Rademacher:MAILTO:mrademacher@blueislandlibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult,Book Club,Seniors
LOCATION:2433 York St, Blue Island, IL 60406
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