If I Live to Be 100, Neenah Ellis
If I Live to Be 100, Neenah Ellis
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If I Live to Be 100
Lessons from the Centenarians

Author: Neenah Ellis, Various

Narrator: Neenah Ellis, Various

Abridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2002

Synopsis

If I Live to Be 100 is based on One Hundred Years of Stories, a series of profiles of American centenarians, which Ellis produced and which aired in 2000 on NPR's Morning Edition. There are now more 100-year-olds alive than at any other time in history, and longevity studies are finding many of them are active, healthy and engaged with the world around them. Neenah Ellis set out to meet these people and to hear what insights, memories, wisdom and just plain common sense tips they have to offer. What she's found will surprise you. The original radio profiles will be intercut with Ellis's reading of her book. If I Live to be 100 is not simply a transcript of the radio series, but about how the experience of meeting and talking with these amazing centenarians affected the author.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 16, 2010

I guess you can see by my book list that there aren't many books that I just plain didn't like. This one got close. I started it in July and just got around to finishing it today, only because I wanted it out of my way. Unfinished books haunt me. So anyway, I felt like Ellis was looking for some mea......more

Goodreads review by Devin on February 23, 2018

I love the advice of "it doesn't cost anything to say hello." This book really brought home the point that we all need each other in this world. Let's make friends and love each other instead of being mean or making enemies.......more

Goodreads review by Sheryl on June 24, 2013

Beautiful "oral histories" of life past 100, with many touching and sobering life lessons along the way.......more

Goodreads review by Aubrey on April 10, 2024

finished this a while ago, but i guess i never updated this on goodreads? i liked the concept and the stories from the centenarians were interesting, but the author was so awful! like she kept making all of their stories about herself and it was just really annoying to read.......more

Goodreads review by Sherrie on July 27, 2011

I got this from a fellow book club person. She really liked this book. She loaned it to me to read. I wasn't too sure I would like it when I started the book. But the more I read the more I wanted to know. The book is written of stories of people who are 100 or over in age. These people are amazing.......more

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