Product Description

In 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the oldest of the baby boomers will begin to turn 60. That translates to approximately 13,000 people per day who will be celebrating this event in North America. We have the perfect gift of reading for the 60-somethings in your life. Sixty Things To Do When You Turn Sixty is a thoughtful, humorous, and sometimes provoking collection of essays written by people from all walks of life on the subject of turning 60.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56857 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Released on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781569069677
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Meeting the interests of baby boomers who have turned or will soon turn 60 is the goal of this captivating essay compilation written by doctors, celebrities, financial experts, and others who have reached that milestone. Contributors include A Prairie Home Companion writer and host Garrison Keillor, anti-aging expert Dr. Nicholas Perricone, and 58 others who discuss everything from health and fitness to sex and investments. While many essays are reflective and thought-provoking, others are lighthearted and humorous. The overall message is one of encouragement and enthusiasm for life. This excellent, thoughtful, and funny book will fly off shelves; highly recommended. --Library Journal, September 15, 2006

The writers whose essays are included in this latest volume contributed their work on a pro bono basis, and the royalties generated from its sale will be donated to nonprofit organizations dedicated to preventing and curing cancer." --Copley News Service, August 16, 2006

…includes 60 essays offering advice to the newly 60. The writers range from Gloria Steinem to Garrison Keillor. -- USA Today, August 16, 2006

From the Publisher
April 2006

A NOTE TO THE READER:

Last fall we published Fifty Things To Do When You Turn Fifty, a book that contains essays from 50 different contributors on the subject of turning 50. By the time you read this, Fifty Things will be in its fourth printing, and will be among the best-selling books our company has published.

No sooner had we begun to mail out the review copies of Fifty Things when we began to receive queries asking when we intended to follow up with Sixty Things. One Journalist even went so far as to emphasize that the market for Sixty Things is roughly twice the size of the market for Fifty Things. Boomers have been turning 50 for the last ten years, he explained, leaving only 50 million of them who have not yet celebrated their big 5-0. There are still 100 million boomers waiting to turn 60, however. If you do the math this breaks down to thirteen thousand 60th birthdays per day for the next 20 years.

One hundred million potential readers? Thirteen thousand birthdays per day? What publisher could argue with numbers like these? Despite the fact that compiling and editing 50 essays for Fifty Things had added ten years to our lives, we picked ourselves up off the floor and went back to work on the sequel.

I have been asked by those who have read Fifty Things if there are noticeable differences in the essays that have been submitted for Sixty Things. Not surprisingly, there are. Many of the essays contained in Fifty Things encourage readers to accept the fact that they are maturing and use the experience of turning 50 as an impetus for change.

The contributors for Sixty Things tend to assume that readers have moved beyond their anxieties and at least begun to accept their more senior station in life. Their essays offer valuable, upbeat advice about how to be healthy, wealthy, wise...and yes, even happy, during our later years.

After reading through Sixty Things To Do When You Turn Sixty, I hope you have the same sense of promise and optimism about your senior years that I was left with when I finished editing the book.

Sincerely, Ronnie Sellers President and Publisher

From the Back Cover
Don't Even Think About Turning 60 Without This Book!

Baby Boomers are a generation of people who are willing to re-evaluate later in life. Sixty Things To Do When You Turn Sixty speaks to the reader ho has or will soon turn 60.

Thanks to the generosity of the contributing authors, all of whom provided essays on a pro-bono basis, the royalties generated from the sales of this book will be donated to nonprofit organizations dedicated to preventing and curing cancer.

Customer Reviews

Nice gift
Gave to my big brother for his 60th. I believe he really liked it. His wife read it before he did . She liked it and she is only 49! Makes a nice little gift.

Too lame to give my sister
I bought this to give my sister on her 60th birthday. Some of the authors looked interesting. I thought it would be a combination of fun, practical and inspirational. Wrong. It is a collection of essays not really specifically addressing the stated topic, but more generally about aging. One entire section is essentially griping about health problems. There's dumb spiritual psychobabble. There's something about sexuality talking about the value of cuddling - excuse me, didn't we read that twenty years ago?
I ended up having to buy something else at the last minute, the day before traveling to visit my sister. Totally not recommended.

Sixty-year-old mom didn't dig it!
I purchased this book for my mother's 60th birthday. With authors such as Garrison Keillor, I figured she'd like it. But to this day, almost a year AFTER my mom's 60th, she has yet to even break in the book. Instead, it gathers dust next to her other unread books.

If purchasing this as a gift, first consider, does the 60-year-old acknowledge his or her age? If not, this might not be the greatest gift.