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When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? Indignities, Compromises, and the Unexpected Grace of Midlife Jennifer Grant Herald Press, 2017                  In her book When Did Everybody Else Get So Old Jennifer Grant writes of life in her 40s, so-called midlife.   She attempts to discover what midlife really is, or even if there is such a thing as midlife.   And if it does exist, exactly when does it occur?   What does this time of life really mean?   She uses her own life to try to expand these ideas.                  Based on the title of the book, I expected it to be full of humor, causing many belly laughs.   Ms. Grant did not deliver on the laughs.   Instead, I was often left confused, trying to follow her train of thought from one idea to the next, and then back again.                    Needless to say, I was disappointed in the book.   Ms. Grant’s style of writing is not one that allowed me to logically follow her ideas.   There were also many, many quotations su
In the Middle of the Mess Strength for this Beautiful, Broken Life by Sheila Walsh Nelson Books, an Imprint of Thomas Nelson Publishing Date:  November 2017 In her new book, In the Middle of the Mess , popular author and Bible teacher Sheila Walsh reveals her life-long deep shame over her battles with depression and suicidal thoughts, and how learning to bring the mess to God and to confess to Christian sisters helped her deal with her depression.  She does not teach how to overcome the depression, but how to live with it through God's grace.   Sheila teaches that every Christian has things they hide.  Things we don't want brought out of the dark.  Things we deny we deal with, much less want to acknowledge them before God, let alone our Christian sisters.  However, she explains that the Bible over and over again teaches that we are to help each other bear our burdens.  And how else can that be accomplished than by revealing our burdens to someone else, so they can