Restless Reader
This book came out in January, why review it now?
Are you sure about that? Usually, to find out how old a book is, we can check the back of its title page. In this paperback, that page reads: “Copyright 2016 … Most of this book was previously published in 2004 in Younger Next
Year and in 2012 in Thinner This Year.”
But also I looked up the listing in the Library of Congress and found three dates: The Titles List page said “2015”; the full record said “Published/ Produced: New York: Workman Publishing [ 2016],” but then the full record went on to list a “projected pub date” — 1512.
Why the Library of Congress lists it with a projected publication date in the 16th century, I don’t know. But my sister- in- law gave my brother a shiny new copy of the paperback for Valentine’s Day, and last week he told me he’s just about ready, finally, to start using it.
So let’s call it a “recent release.”
( Dear Librarian, thank you for the email you are about to send to me at cstorey@arkansasonline.com.) Wasn’t there an exercise program in the first of the Younger Next Year books?
Former litigator Chris Crowley and his doctor, Henry S. Lodge, a geriatrician and professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, made an enthusiastic argument in favor of relentless exercise in that first book — whose success led to a small industry of Younger
Next Year products, including adventure retreats.
That book aimed squarely at aging men. It told such men to take their pick: a slow, steady decline into a longish infirmity leading to lingering death, or a long period of relative vitality followed by a short, sudden descent and death. It continued cheerfully to explain the authors’ faith that the difference between those options was near- daily, sweat- inducing exercise.
Most of this recent book comes