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Maria Speidel

Los Angeles
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50 of Our Favorite Novels Featuring Fantastic Older Characters

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By Christina Ianzito , Maria Speidel
| AARP
19. The Good House by Ann Leary (2013) Hildy Good is an alcoholic, a divorced grandmother, the descendant of a 17th-century witch and a flailing real estate agent living in a seaside town north of Boston. The Yankee grande dame brags about her own witchy intuition when viewing people’s homes: “Alcoholics, hoarders, binge eaters, addicts, sexual deviants, philanderers, depressives — you name it.
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8 Great Short Nonfiction Books Your Book Club Will Love

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By Maria Speidel
| AARP
If you or members of your book club can’t seem to get through long, heavy reads, we have some options for you: short biographies, essays, histories and other unique works of nonfiction that everyone should have the time (and motivation) to finish. Each of these eight very different books has fewer than 230 pages.
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Fascinating Facts About Anthony Hopkins From His New Memoir

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By Maria Speidel
| AARP
Hopkins doesn’t shy away from unflattering facts in his new memoir, a frank recollection of high and low points in his life. Anthony Hopkins, 87, will forever be associated with his most famous character, the cannibal Hannibal Lecter from 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won his first Oscar. (The uber-villain says of one victim, “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” Slurp, slurp, slurp.) He once told AARP , “I’ll never escape from that guy....
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