One of my favourite writers is Ian Brown, former CBC Radio host (Sunday Morning) and longtime feature writer for the Globe & Mail. He is the author of Sixty, a book whose apt subtitle is “a diary of my sixty-first year.” When I read it the first time I was in that 60-curious mode that guys in their late 50s move in and out of.

The first significant signs of aging are appearing — it likely says a lot about the male of our species that it takes us that long to figure out we are getting old — and I was looking for a summer read that would not be too frightening about the subject.

Brown’s work has always interested me as he seems to inject the right amount of self-deprecating honesty in his non-fiction, so I figured I’d get the straight goods on his account of his aging body, and mind. I did that and more. And certainly recommend the book to any guy in the autumn of his life.

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