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A quick little read. This book was very informative and I liked how it was talking about accomplishments from year 35 to 100. I could definitely see this being a great coffee table book. Very fun to flip through.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

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This book was super interesting. I loved that it shows the reader they can truly do anything at any age, and there were a lot of people I had never heard of. I liked the bits of illustration, and that the blurbs weren't too in-depth, but welcome the reader to continue learning on their own.

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As a 20-something-year-old, frequent user of the phrase “I’m too old for…”, and an over thinker throughout, this book was a fun little comfort book to help settle and ease any nerves that come with getting older. I had just wanted a quick and easy read to run out of this little reading slump I was in, but I got a lot more than that. And I can very much see this sitting on coffee tables and being flipped through by guests, interested by the stars who found their knack later in life, and seeing who accomplished what at their current age, of course.

Thanks to Netgalley who provided me with an arc in exchange for an honest review

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This was fun! I wish there were photographs or something. There was artwork of some of the people spread intermittently, but I thought it lacked in this area. I also wasn't a super big fan of how everything was written. There's a blurb written by the author and then a paragraph about the person. Sometimes the author's blurb was fun, but mainly I found it totally unnecessary and really just wanted to skip over it and read the section that's actually about the person.

I had fun with it, but they lost my interest about half way through. It wasn't that the people weren't interesting, it was the way it was executed that left me wanting.

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I loved this!
I'm about to turn 30 and I've been feeling like 30 sounds so far from 29. It was depressing me haha.
This book was a GREAT reminder that there's so much more life to live and I have so much potential to do more and be great!
The illustrations were amazing. You could tell who the celebrities were before being told.
I learnt so much while reading this and it was fun!
A great book, I definitely will be recommending it!

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy to read in exchange for an honest review.

There was some pretty good information in here. I liked that every year was given one person and one page. I would have loved if more bio info was included such as birth/death date.

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This is a fun quick read with an inspiring and funny bio of someone who accomplished something great for the year 35 to 100.
The writing is funny, light, and feels like it's being shared by a friend. I do wish that there was more portraits of the featured person (and I flipped reading the bio then the motivational note), but this is a great book. There is a wide array of people - both backgrounds (not just cis white straight men) and accomplishments (from acting and singing to marathoners and world records to artists).

Both informative and funny I can't imagine anyone not finding something to love in this book.

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