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Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for company--three dogs, vivid memories, bugs and birds and critters that she watches out her window. No one but this beloved, best-selling memoirist, could make so much over what might seem so little. Memories fall like confetti, as time contracts, shoots forward, dawdles, and there she is, back in her twenties in Washington Square Park, drinking, having sex with strangers, falling in and out of love, believing in a better world. Whole decades evaporate as she sits in her chair, and a spider takes up residence beside her, who will become her boon companion for the next week. Sometimes dread arrives, inhabits her body like a shadow and all she can do is write it away, pay attention to what catches her eye, sticks in her brain. Whatever keeps her in the moment. Pull up a chair, have a cup of tea and enter Abigail Thomas's funny, mesmerizing, generous world.
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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I realized the book I just finished has one of my favourite covers of the books I've read this year, so I rounded up my favourites of 2025 so far. (The year I read them, not the year they're all published. 😅) I'm not surprised that blue-greens are a major component, but I'm also evidently a fan of a mix of bright colour, and singling out orange with green and pink with a bit of yellow. 1/2

Robotswithpersonality 2/2 Only a couple of the books that feature the gorgeous art they contain (picture books, graphic novels) make this list, because a lot of graphic novels and even picture book covers can be very cluttered in an attempt to showcase what's inside, above are the exceptions that let the art speak for itself, in my opinion. 💚🧡💗💛 (edited) 2w
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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Mehso-so

Ebbs and flows. The context of the author writing in the early days of the pandemic is useful to frame and reflect upon the writing: One to three page snippets like journal entries, though some appear to be remembrances of her youth told in third person. I say ebbs and flows, because there are passages that flow, profound, charming, frankly honest insights and/or just beautiful writing and there are passages that ebb, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? and while it's human that Thomas might get stuck, in a mindset, in a topic, it hampers the previous feeling of fresh moments selected and collected in a memoir of essays.
I enjoyed the tandem reading experience, the audiobook is read by the author, and her meter, her energy, the strength of her voice varies depending on what she is expressing or reflecting upon, occasionally wavers, it provided a particular kind of emphasis.
2w
Robotswithpersonality 3/3
If you liked Xe Sands' narration of The Echo Wife, I think you'll like this vibe.

⚠️animal death (edited) 2w
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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Love the imagery, that sense of a word creating images as much as meaning.

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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“...like trying to stuff one ear into another,“
I strongly identify with the fitted sheet folding struggle. 😵‍💫

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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😏🕷️

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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The sound of blue. 💙😌

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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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Yes. Good. Relatable. 🎂🙃

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Jen2
Jen2
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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Pickpick

Delightful

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Ellohcin
Ellohcin
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
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Book 2/40 of 2025 ✨

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AnnieMcC
AnnieMcC
Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing | Abigail Thomas
Mehso-so

I love everything Abigail Thomas has written up until this point. . this book though, I found to be a bit depressing. It seemed as if all she does is sit and look out the window except for when she‘s hobbling around on her cane or peeing her pants. She‘s such a brilliant writer but she makes old age sound not so great. It did get better during the second half.

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