OWLS - Older Women and Literature
Books to emotionally and intellectually nourish "older women"
Wrinkled Rebels, by Laura Katz Olson. July 23, 2024, 281 pages.
As a slightly younger constituent of the 80 year olds in Wrinkled Rebels, I appreciate both the history lessons of 1960’s social justice efforts, and the utopian possibility at the book’s end.
7/15/24
Spy Coast, by Tess Gerritsen
Thomas and Mercer, 2023, 341 pages.
Five former CIA agents in their 60’s and 70’s, friends for over 30 years, have retired to a small town in Maine. The past of one brings them all into action again in a story valuing friendship and loyalty as much as mystery and more than action.
7/1/24 – For July 4th, 2024
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Simon and Schuster, April, 2024. 480 pages.
Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin brings her insightful and engaging focus to the life of her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin, whose words and ideas shaped some of the most powerful policies of the 1960s.
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