Review: Pleasant enough read, slightly underwhelming
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2013
This book follows protagonist Katie's life from age 75 to 150, in a plodding, almost rambling sort of way. Katie was a nice enough person. She liked singing, dancing, and a number of sports but nothing really grabbed her interest, nothing about her was exciting enough to warrant 150 years. About the only positive thing she did was study to be a nurses' aid and work in the Third World for a few months.... When she became famous it was because she was old, which was not really to her merit. The people close to her were pleasant, but appeared in snippets and were never rounded out. We never learned much about her surroundings, either. The image Katie offered of age and aging was distorted, but then it was supposed to be. However, when she finally did grow old, the author seemed to be at a loss. She apparently didn't know how to handle real aging, so she skipped decades (or more) at a time.The plot resolution was satisfying. And while it could have done with another proofread (names got mixed up several times), overall it read well.