An Unfinished Story

An Unfinished Story

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Three 2025 novels I put off for too long
Plus one 2026 novel that you haven't read yet
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Forgotten artist: Susan Watkins, gentle modernist
And my (admittedly tenuous) connection to her
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A long marriage, sickness and health, and speaking in public about such things
Plus more great novels with main characters over 50
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"I always kept writing": A Midlife Author interview with Sharon Kurtzman
If there’s a story burning inside you, there’ s no time like the present, and it’s never too late.
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More beautiful novels... with over-50 main characters
And your suggestions!
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The summer I turned 60 and got breast cancer...and the book list it led to
Hello, friends.
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(Late) summer reading: The 2025 list
It happens every year: By the time I surrender to summer and its heat and humidity, it’s already August.
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Grief, love, and friendship on the Carolina coast: Midlife Author interview with Heather Frese
At midlife, we really, truly don't care what other people think.
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Out of the Gilded Age and into the garden: Beatrix Farrand
"No one ever starts gardening either too late or too early, once it gets into one’s blood it can never get out (like some insidious poison)."
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An Unfinished Story
An Unfinished Story
Book recommendations, women artists, and interviews with late-blooming authors. Because at midlife, our story is still unfinished.
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Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society
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Ann Kennedy Smith
It's Not Too Late
It's Not Too Late
Jennifer Louden
Oldster Magazine
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Sari Botton

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