A Round-Heeled Woman : My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance

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Summary: Charming, but Somewhat Misguided
Review: The warmth and charm of Jane Juska permeates her book and that's what makes it so readable. I would definitely read another book by her, just because her style of writing is so engaging. I did feel rather sad, however, because the quality of the men she has sex with seems pretty low. They are for the most part too old for her, and the happy part comes in the end when she ends up with a thirty-something. Good for her.

One objection I have is that she subscribes to the myth of the vaginal orgasm, and women should know by now there is no such thing. In another book about middle-aged dating, BABY BOOMER BACHELORETTE, Patsy Stagner demystifies the process and bursts many dating myths such as the vaginal orgasm. She encourages older women to date younger men and teaches them how to do it. It would make a good companion to this book.

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Summary: Wonderful book that doesn't leave you feeling wonderful
Review: This book stays with you when you're done. Months have passed since I read this, but I still miss Jane Juska. She's bright, witty, insightful, and honest.
She's also needy, and she explores the adolescent cravings many of us satisfied during the wild sex years of the '60s and '70s. It's sometimes painful to watch her "lookin' for love in all the wrong places," since, actually, it was love she was searching for, not sex.
It's an understatement to say this title is misleading. You have no idea from the title that this book will be so much about a person and so little about sex. Sometimes the writing drags on and on, and other times it flips through topics you wish had gotten more detail.
Always, it entrances. Jane is a sweet lady, working through some hard lessons at a time of life when you hurt harder each time you fall. And she falls and falls and falls.

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Summary: She proves it is never too late after all
Review: This writer's talent deserves a better vehicle than this IMO, but it is a great first book and let us hope she follows it with another. Briefly, she "protected" herself from men for many years by putting on weight (never mind that some men would not be put off by extra pounds) then lost the weight and decided she wanted to have a frolic. She placed what amounted to a personal ad (dreadful!) in The New York Times Review of Books of all places, then tossed all the responses which were from the literary challenged (or otherwise tasteless). The responses she followed up on were from astonishingly cultured duds with nary a stud in sight. After an incredibly bad series of experiences with older men, she finally hooked up with what most women want anyway - a younger man - and the book ends on a happy note. Lovers of romance novels of the racier sort might like this - if they are OK with the fact that every word of it is true. General readers will like it precisely because it is true.