Aging


Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
The Correspondent
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Water for Elephants
Autophagy: Simple Techniques to Activate Your Bodies’ Hidden Health Mechanism to Promote Longevity, Optimal Cellular Renewal, Detox, and Strength for a Happy Life
A Man Called Ove
Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation
Our Souls at Night
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
Still Alice
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Bill Cosby by Sandra ZieglerJared, the Subway Guy by Jared FogleIt's Not About the Bike by Lance ArmstrongFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySex and the City by Candace Bushnell
Books that aged poorly
103 books — 17 voters
Longevity for the Lazy by Richard MalishAbout Prostate Troubles by Benedict LustSecrets To Natural Testosterone After 40 by Lance MillsThe Men's Health Big Book of Exercises by Adam CampbellMen's Sexual Health by Barry W. McCarthy
Top Men's Health Books
7 books — 3 voters

The Carer by Scott  L. NelsonWintering by Katherine MayThe Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta MagnussonMein Leben mit Frontotemporaler Demenz by Raimund OberschmidDementia by Stephen                Lewis
Hard Seasons
24 books — 15 voters

Shannon L. Alder
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
Shannon L. Alder

Naomi Wolf
Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for th ...more
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

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