Get It Now Tales Of Graceful Aging From The Planet Denial Articulated By Nicole Hollander Available Through Digital Edition

of Americas funniest women asks, “If sixty is the new fifty, when do I get to be thirty again”

Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteenfifties, when women of a certain age put on weight, got a really tight perm, and rode the backs of their house slippers into the ground.
 Oh, for those uncomplicated good old days,  Today, your fifties and sixties are deemed your most creative yearsyou cant lie around like a slug unless you suddenly want to be seventy with nothing to show for it.
 Luckily, in Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial, Nicole, creator of the beloved Sylvia comic strip and one of the pioneers of the genre of humor about women and their cats, guides us through the important decisions that come in ones mature years: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation Get plastic surgery or just a really good haircut

Nicole applies her ironic wit to such topics as whether to lobby Harry Winston for a foundation to provide chauffeurdriven cars and diamonds to women over fifty or instead focus on finding a château to buy in France and turning it into the first nail spa in the Loire Valley or perhaps a shelter for French strays.
She tackles a range of female obsessions: men, friendship, beauty, money, weight, and a few peculiar obsessions of her own, such as researching loftsize mausoleums with huge mobile homes your family can stay in when they come to lay flowers or angry notes on your grave, the very latest thing in burial arrangements.


With wicked humor and fantastic riffs that take you places you never expected to go, Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial is like Nicoles idea of heaven: tiny cupcakes served continuously.
The creator of the "Sylvia" comic strip muses humorously
on aging in particular, aging in women, In the
process, she creates a looselystructured memoir,

A good light read, this book consists of episodic riffs
on agingrelated topics, It is almost always amusing and
is sometimes laughoutloud funny,

The intermittent cartoon illustrations add a lot to the
book, I now have a photocopied one stuck on my fridge:
"My favorite kind of coffee is the coffee that someone
else makes for me, "

This book had not been on my running list of books to
read, but then my local library hosted Hollander at an
author visit, prompting me to seek out this work.


I took it on a short trip where sustained reading was
not possible, It was perfect for that,

I am not sure if I will read any of her other books, but
I will continue to be a big fan of "Sylvia," which runs
in my local paper.
And is also available online,
according to Hollander, I have loved Hollander's Sylvia comic strip

since I first started reading itat least twentyfour years ago, This little streamofconsciousness book of humorous musings on aging and her social life doesn't match the quality of her strip, unfortunately, Or perhaps she just can't find a way to change media so drastically, I couldn't finish itthe disjointedness drove me nuts, Yeah, I know. I thought I'd love it, but it was sporadic, and rambling, and I couldn't make it through, Inspiring and fun. I read it in two days and enjoyed it, learned a lot about myself from this funny, witty and "everyone goes through it" book, A great light read. I am a huge fan of Nicole Hollander, Written like her comic strip, "Sylvia, " Short, quipy Maxine like style humor on not aging gracefully and bending all the social norms, Had some great moments and had some not great moments, but any book that makes me laugh out loud, spurting coffee out of my nose and getting chuckles by others as they watch me in a coffee shop can't be all bad.
Clearly, this book was not written for a woman my age, There were some funny parts, but it was not consistently funny, I suppose that if I were older it would have translated better, Oh well. TALES OF GRACEFUL AGING FROM THE PLANET DENIAL by Nicole Hollanderis from my favorite cartoonist, I din't know how I could have missed a new Hollander publication, and then I checked the publication date and realized, My husband and I are forever discovering events, books, movies, and whole television series that came out during the last years of my mother's dying, In any event, this is funny and irreverent and pretty much what anyone should expect from the creator of the marvelous "Sylvia, " Hollander speaks to a slightly different demographic than minesingle, thinner, slightly more affluent, I wish there had been more drawings beyond the chapter openings, Otherwise, I think most women of a certain age mine will find it hysterical,
This was a wry,mildly funny book about growing up in thes and aging, I am best known for writing and drawing the syndicated cartoon strip, SYLVIA, which appears daily and weekly in thannewspapers across the country, including The Boston Globe, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Womens e News Online and The Houston Chronicle online.
Sylvia strips appear on BadGirlChats as well, I am represented by the Tribune Media Services Syndicate, I continue to write and draw Sylvia at Badgirlchats, com, a blog composed of original writing, comments and reactions to whats in the news, I am currently teaching college courses at the Art Institute in graphic novel writing as well as storytelling and memoir workshops at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago, but I still love speaking at events and book readings.
I am best known for writing and drawing the syndicated cartoon strip, SYLVIA, which appears daily and weekly in thannewspapers across the country, including The Boston Globe, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Womens e News Online and The Houston Chronicle online.
Sylvia strips appear on BadGirlChats as well, I am represented by the Tribune Media Services Syndicate, I continue to write and draw Sylvia at Badgirlchats, com, a blog composed of original writing, comments and reactions to what's in the news, I am currently teaching college courses at the Art Institute in graphic novel writing as well as storytelling and memoir workshops at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago, but I still love speaking at events and book readings.
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