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Title: My Middle-Aged Baby Book by Mary-Lou Weisman, Paul Meisel ISBN: 1-56305-817-0 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Gag Gift for Those 45-65
Comment: Why don't middle-aged people have fun? Perhaps because they don't yet have a Middle-Aged Baby Book to put them in the mood.
Almost every parent has filled out one of those baby books that includes birth time, weight, pictures from the hospital, first birthday party, favorite toys, and so on. Why shouldn't the middle aged have one, too? . . . Especially since their memories may be going, and this will be the only way to record their lives to remember what happened.
The satire is quite complete. Almost all of the baby book sections are put into a middle-aged context humorously for this version.
To begin setting the mood, the cover is padded like a baby book often is.
The author's acknowledgments include middle-aged amnesiacs who helped, the editor (Ruth . . . ?), gastroenterologist (Dr. Henry . . . ?), and husband ( . . . ?). If only she could remember their names!
You have a chance to make your own family tree (with humorous asides about the people on it), note your memorable firsts (colonoscopy, reading glasses), tell whether you are a girl or a boy ("Do you spend most of your time in front of the toilet, running water, or naked on the lawn, rolling in snow?"), describe your teething history (which ones are dead, bridges, implants, gold crowns, bonded, capped, and gone?), date important fashion firsts (when you gave up spandex, threw away your bikini, and started wearing shirts out of your pants), and put in samples of your hair (both colored and uncolored versions).
The book also has many humorous essays like the history of solid foods and weight (1993 -- Oprah loses 60 pounds. Pavarotti gains it.), I Forget, and Why? There are also middle-aged versions of many well-known nursery rhymes.
You can also add your favorite expressions (like, Where are my glasses?).
If you give this as a birthday gift, the birthday girl or boy can put in key facts of that day such as the price of a standard facelift in that year.
At the end, you'll find a living will. It gives your relatives authority to plant you when the time comes.
Even if you don't have the nerve to give this to anyone else, you should get a copy for yourself. It's the most humorous thing I've ever read about becoming middle-aged!
Get rid of your misconception stalls about middle age not being funny.
Donald Mitchell
Coauthor of The Irresistible Growth Enterprise (available in August 2000) and The 2,000 Percent Solution
Rating: 4
Summary: Middle-Agers need to be babied, too
Comment: A clever book, one that I often give to aging boomer friends, along with copies of "Dave Barry Turns 50" and "Getting Old Sucks" by Ed Strnad. They all enjoy it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A hilarious send-up on being middle-aged
Comment: This is the funniest, smartest humor book I've read in ages. I give it to everyone, male or female, for any occasion whatsoever, although it makes a special hit at big 4-0, 5-0 and 6-0 birthday parties where it usually gets read out loud and is better than any entertainment you could hire. All the stuff in it -- middle-aged sex, middle-aged expressions, middle-aged concerns are right on the nose. I can't wait for the author to grow up at little more and see what she does with old age!
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Title: You Know You're Fifty When by Richard Smith ISBN: 0767902106 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: 1,003 Great Things About Getting Older by Birnback ISBN: 0836226992 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: What You Don't Know About Turning 50 by Phil Witte ISBN: 0671317733 Publisher: Meadowbrook Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Forty Reasons Why Life Is More Fun After The Big 40 by Liz Curtis Higgs ISBN: 0785276157 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 24 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR 40TH BIRTHDAY : The Complete Guide to Getting the Care You Need--And Avoiding Problems You Don't by Bill Dodds ISBN: 0671725610 Publisher: Meadowbrook Pub. Date: 15 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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