No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club
Diary of a Sixtieth Year

I checked this out from my library years ago because of the title. I couldn’t help myself. I was a book clubber. “Is this a funny take on people in one?” I wondered. We are meeting Marie, a seasoned woman on the eve of her 60th birthday who is making decisions of what she is deciding to give up, lik......more

"Don't Touch It With A Bargepole" According to the main character of this book, Marie Sharp, a woman turning 60 who decides to start a diary, there are only two ways to describe books: "One is: `Absolutely brilliant! You must read it!' or `Total cr@p. Don't touch it with a bargepole.' " Here in the U......more

This first novel, written in diary form, is laugh-out-loud hilarious. Virginia Ironside is British and the novel is set in and around London. The narrator, Marie Sharp, is witty, sarcastic and sweet, all in one. I loved the "Britishisms" as I call them, sprinkled throughout the book and I was drawn......more