The Swayze Year

This book is a perfect gift for anyone who’s sitting one of those “scary age” years or is just plain thinking there’s no use starting over at their age. This book shows that change can happen at any age (just look up Patricia Davis if you don’t believe me) and it makes me happy to say I’m going into my “It’s Totally a Flower” Year & change is possible.

This was a cute idea with a little something for everyone to enjoy. Getting older doesn't have to suck. My favorite part being that two BFFs wrote and illustrated it together, after each experiencing their own Swayze-Morrison/Ball'er years.

Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC!

This is a great compilation to note that it's never too late to achieve your dreams. Titled after the fact that Swayze landed his most notable role after turning 30, each year is highlighted by a person who reached a significant goal or achievement at that age. It was astounding to read how much people accomplished later in their lives. It's thought-provoking and highlights that sometimes things happen for a reason.

So helpful and inspiring! You get to wonder if you can do or create anything once you are out of your early thirties and this book proves you wrong! I think this would make a great college graduation gift!

I appreciated how good this was, Colleen AF Venable and Meghan Daly has everything that I was looking for in this description. It was well written and I’m glad I read this.

No matter how old you are, you're never too late to be celebrated for breaking new ground or just breaking through, as detailed in "The Swayze Year", an inspirational read about people who have found success in their more advanced years. The idea behind it is that Patrick Swayze was 35 when he found fame in "Dirty Dancing", proving you're never too old for that breakthrough moment.
In the main, this is a great inspiring read, however I do have a couple of gripes... Firstly - 35 isn't old! Or maybe I'm just sensitive about my advancing years... But from where I'm sitting that's hardly washed-up-on-the-shelf territory. Secondly - if you're looking for inspiration for a fresh start in life, this is much more about people who have been plugging away at something for decades before finding success. I would also challenge how success is defined - as several of the British actors were hugely respected theatre stars before getting their breakthrough into movies and more obvious fame.
But these are all relatively small gripes in what is an extremely interesting read, with many truly inspiring people who have achieved amazing things in their advanced years. Highly inspiring.

Thank you Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for a copy of The Swayze Year!

"The Swayze Year celebrates later-in-life wins with short profiles of one person for every year from age 35 to age 100 who climbed mountains—metaphorical and literal—wrote their own storylines, and found their happy little trees at a more mature age. With wit, humor, and warmth, The Swayze Year proves that no matter how old you are, you’re not done yet."

A cute, comforting "coffee table" sort of book about people accomplishing their goals later-in-life! I do wish there were photos or illustrations for each person and a section for "more resources", so readers can learn more about the people featured. Overall, it is neat and straightforward, and a great book to buy as a gift for friends/family who are anxious about getting older!

A quick read, pretty humorous. I enjoyed the little vignettes about not being "too old for this" and the examples of celebrities and notable people who became well known much later than the "typical" person. Not super in-depth, but still a nice little coffee table book.

This is a neat book to read. It was very interesting to learn about different people who became sucessful later in life.

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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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.