You Know You're 40 When...

by Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx

Are you almost over the hill? Know someone who is?

Getting older is no fun, but it sure can be funny. How do you know when you’re approaching the big 4-0?

Here are a few

* Comb-overs are starting to make a certain kind of sense.
* A kid you once babysat for is now your lawyer.
* At your checkups, the doctor has begun to ask if you’re still sexually active.
* Midnight seems awfully late.
* You’re more interested in websites that will calculate your Body Mass Index than in Internet porn.
* You receive two phone calls in a single week from people who want to sell you life insurance.

Whether you’ve just found your first gray hair or you’re peering around the corner to your mid-life crisis, You Know You’re 40 When … will tickle your funny bone (while you can still remember where to find it).

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 8, 2005

About the author

Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles.

Ann was raised in Rochester, New York and graduated from Harvard College, where she was a staff member on the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. She was the food columnist for the magazines Spy and Eating Well. Her essay "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch," about taste-testing various dog foods, was included in "Best American Essays." Hodgman is also known for her three cookbooks, Beat This!, Beat That! and One Bite Won't Kill You. She is the author of the 6-book vampire series My Babysitter is a Vampire and the nonfiction memoir "The House of a Million Pets."

Hodgman is married to author David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and they have two children, Laura and John.

Reviews

[Jesse Richards · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice gift. But it turns out it's not the serious how-to I was expecting.

[diarhafsari · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Getting older is no fun, but it sure can be funny." Begitulah yang coba disampaikan oleh buku humor ini tentang usia 40(-an). Bisa dibaca dalam sekali duduk, buku ini berisi fakta-fakta seputar usia 40 yang diselipi humor.

Karena dua penulisnya berasal dari Amerika Serikat, ditambah lagi latar bahwa buku ini ditulis di 2000-an awal, kita (kita = yang jelang atau sudah berusia 40) yang baru membacanya sekarang mungkin tidak bisa sepenuhnya merasa "relate" dengan sebagian fakta di dalam buku yang sifatnya 'lokal' atau yang 'Amrik banget' atau yang "so yesteryear". Sebagian fakta lain di dalam buku ini mungkin sudah kita alami dan/atau rasakan bahkan di usia 30-an. Intinya, ini adalah buku "just-for-fun" untuk merayakan usia 40 ✨️

"... enjoy forty because once you turn fifty, you'll wish you could do it all over again."

[Naina Biswas · Rating 5 out of 5]

i used to unironically love this book when i was five and i still stand by it

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

funny, makes me feel young!