Out to Pasture: (But Not Over the Hill) (Paperback) by Effie Leland Wilder

from howifeelaboutbooks

Funny, light book about life in an assisted living facility. It's like a small community, with gossip and group events, deaths and jokes. It wasn't technically a great book, but it was interesting because it seems quaint and the author was 85 when she wrote it.

from LyndaInOregon

Charming little collection of fictionalized reminiscences about the goings-on in a retirement home, written by a first-time author who does in fact live in one. The characters are crisply drawn, and there are many smiles as well as a few poignant moments.

from MerryMary

Charming little book about the joys, laughs, and heartaches of the last part of life. The story is thinly disguised as fiction, but the incidents ring all too real, and it is obvious Ms Wilder is using her own life at a retirement home as grist for her story mill. She draws her characters with a ...

from burnit99

Written by Effie Wilder, 85 at the time, this is billed as a first novel, but I suspect it is largely autobiographical. Told in the form of journal entries by an elderly resident of a retirement home in South Carolina, the book consists of a series of vignettes spotlighting various residents and ...

from PaulWW

Fun book, suprising enjoyable! Lots of laugh out loud moments. A nice, recomended short read. I would have finished it sooner, but since it was a HB, whenever I'd go out I carry a pb or short stories with me, so I got a fair amount of shortstories read this week too!