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Non-Fiction

LuckyLib

(6,926 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 05:30 PM Sep 2014

Any suggestions for non-fiction or poetry for a sharp 91 year old woman? [View all]

My Dad died a year ago at 99, and my Mom is looking at end-life but is still very healthy. Lives alone, close with her four children, grandchildren. I wanted to find something interesting, inspirational, thoughtful. Any ideas?

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Any suggestions for non-fiction or poetry for a sharp 91 year old woman? [View all] LuckyLib Sep 2014 OP

Has she read "Leaves of Grass" or "Autobiography of Mark Twain"? LoisB Sep 2014 #1

...and I'm sorry about your Dad. Best to your Mom. LoisB Sep 2014 #2

Thanks for book recs and kind words. LuckyLib Sep 2014 #3

Lewis Thomas!! arcane1 Sep 2014 #4

Throw her in the car & take her to the book store fadedrose Sep 2014 #5

What fadedrose said. SheilaT Sep 2014 #6

Emily Dickinson pscot Oct 2014 #7

I am reading an account of the life of Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of japple Oct 2014 #8

My mother is close in age to yours. Tipperary Jun 2015 #9