In this edition, you’ll find stretches you can do in the office!Īge 48 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’EngleĪ Wrinkle in Time is the first book in the Time Quintet Series that tells the tale of brother and sister Meg and Charles going back in time to find their father who mysteriously disappeared.

Stay fit and healthy as you are reaching the end of your 40’s with Anderson’s infamous bestseller, Stretching. The Help is the story of how a black maid and a white socialite come together to write a book of what it is like to be black in the south in the early 1960’s. Road trip! Whistling Past the Graveyard is a coming of age story that is perfect for anyone in the mid 40’s. If nothing at all, watch the movie and you’ll see why.Īge 45 Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall The Glass Castle has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over seven years and counting. Memoirs can be a good way to get your mind going and think about aspects of your life you are grateful for. Whether that is climbing the highest mountain in the world, or finally publishing a novel, Into Thin Air will give you the motivation to do so.Īge 44 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

There is no better feeling than the one of accomplishing a goal. Auggie’s positive attitude will motivate you to be positive too! Wonder tells the story of a kid with a rare facial deformity that is enjoyable for both kids and adults alike. Comedian Amy Poehler shares poems, pictures, short stories, and lists that are dynamite! When you see a book with chapters like, “Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend” and “The Robots Will Kill Us All” you know it is going to be good. Let’s start your 40’s with a good belly laugh. Hey, 40 is the new 20 these days, right? Let’s dive right in and see what picks we had this week for readers 41 to 60. (Even though romantic relationships are actually really important in people's lives and mainstream media portrays this subject as trivial or lesser.) But I digress.Oh boy. It's interesting to me that there's an assumption that a lady-penned book will focus on romantic relationships, even when the reality is something else. But I guess because he's a dude it's 'profound' (disclosure: I hate the public's clamoring over every single one of that man's pithy, simplistic rants).

talks much more about his relationships in his everyday comedy bits than Amy does in Yes Please. I'm certain that Kroll isn't mentioned by name outside the acknowledgments and the limited about of time spent on Arnett is mostly in a general sense about how much divorce sucks and graciously about him as a father to their two sons. It's interesting to me that some major media reviews lingered on the notion that Amy talks 'a lot' about her divorce from Will Arnett and her new relationship with comedian Nick Kroll.

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