How Not to Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame by Pamela Redmond Satran

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  • Pub. Date: August 2009
  • 192pp
  • Sales Rank: 2,303
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    • Pub. Date: August 2009
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Format: Paperback, 192pp
    • Sales Rank: 2,303

    Synopsis

    How to be cool when you're afraid you've forgotten how . . .

    Sure, you can try to stay younger by exercising, coloring your hair, and wearing stylish clothes—but how do you respond when someone asks, "Do you Twitter?" How Not to Act Old gives you simple ways to come back from over the hill and to act as young as you look.

    Covering everything from old-people entertainment (cancel that dinner party!) to old-people communication (it's called a "voice mail," not a "message," and no one leaves or listens to them anyway), Pamela Redmond Satran decodes the behaviors, viewpoints, and cultural touchstones that separate you from the hip young person you wish you still were. This irreverent guide is essential for anyone who doesn't want to embarrass their kids—or themselves.

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    Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of five novels and the coauthor of many bestselling baby name books, as well as the creator of nameberry.com. A columnist for Glamour, she writes frequently for the New York Times, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post. She lives not all that far from Brooklyn and plans to act thirty-three forever.

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    Best Book Club Book Everby AmeliaFrancis

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    September 06, 2009: My book club picked this for our first fall meeting after reading the excerpt in More Magazine. I can tell you it was our best book club ever. Not only are the entries really hilarious but it led to a great discussion about all the ways we're all guilty of acting old, all the ways we're not, how we feel about our ages as women, with our families at work.

    The really surprising thing to me was that after I told my husband about the discussion, he picked up the book and thought it was just as funny as I did and we had a great discussion too! Recommend this book for men and women, old or young. It's a grownup kind of funny that's so hard to find.

    The Funniest Book Ever!by Patti43

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    September 05, 2009: It's so great to find a book that's both funny and smart about the things that matter to ME: not being able to figure out the program on my computer (but being afraid to say anything about it), getting laughed at by my kids (but not being sure why), feeling like I look pretty young except give away my age by everything I say and do. I love it that this book lets me in on all the secrets of the new generation gap but also makes me laugh about them. This is my new go-to present for every post-40 birthday party!