“This book should accompany every AARP registration,” was part of the introduction of Andrea Gilats’ memoir “Radical Endurance” about “growing old in the age of longevity.” Gilats, who holds a Ph.D., nearing 80 years old, is a writer, educator and former Yoga instructor and who authors a very personal story of her aging process filled with quotations from a variety of experts, philosophers, and writers, and offers suggestions about dealing with old age, and even facing the prospect of death.
Jeffrey Burton, a return guest, has written several previous series, his latest in the Chicago K-9 novel, “The Second Grave,” in which his two “cadaver dogs” uncover a suicide and then discover two graves, on with three bodies and one with only one. This leads to the difficulty of finding the story behind the killings and an intriguing twist involving a decades old bank robbery.
