Apr 2024 FBR - KU Buddy Read: Excuse Me While I Disappear by Laurie Notaro

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Welcome to the April "Kindle Unlimited" Buddy Read!
starts 1-Apr-2024, ends 30-Apr-2024

Our theme this month is Memoirs and we're reading Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem by Laurie Notaro.

A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife.

Laurie Notaro has proved everyone she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything).

Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting—the cracking noises coming from her new old body, receiving regular junk mail from mortuaries—Laurie accepts it. And then some. With unintentional abandon, she shoplifts a bag of russet potatoes. Heckles a rude driver from her beat-up Prius. And engages in epic trolling on Nextdoor.com. That, says Laurie, is the brilliance of growing older. With each passing day, you lose an equivalent amount of fear.

And the #1 New York Times bestselling author has never been so fearlessly funny as she is in this empowering, candid, and enlightening memoir about living life on the other side of fifty.

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[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

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[Kat]

I’m currently reading this and liking it already

[Kat]

I wasn’t keen on this liked parts 2*

[Angie ☯]

So far the book is pretty hilarious!

Sadly, I have to say that I can relate to many of the topics...

At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything).

I don't know about getting away with anything, becuase I've just decided to "go gray", but the rest, yep, I totally get!!

[Angie ☯]

I thought it was pretty spot on for things that happen as we age or things that really bother us about aging. It is a funny take on aging, but it wasn't completely fiction!

Can anyone else reading relate to the content?

[Angie ☯]

Finished the book and enjoyed it. It made me laugh out loud several times and made me think "oh, I've done that" a few as well. I'm not really one to read non-fiction/memoirs, but I glad I read this one.

[Teddie]

I just listened to this last month - based on some of the reviews I think you almost need to be genX to truly appreciate the humor of this book. I especially liked the bit about invisibility being our midlife superpower. There was an episode of Grace & Frankie about this phenomenon too - it is a real thing to wield when needed!

I totally cracked up about the whole neighborhood app thing - I mean I could just see her as a wee master of chaos posting those updates.

[Angie ☯]

I totally agree, Teddie! The neighborhood app was too funny. I think I would enjoy being that master of chaos as well!!

And, I had never heard that when we got older our superpower was invisibility until I read this book. Now, I heard or seen it several times in shows or movies I've watched!!