{"id":34263,"date":"2026-02-02T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/?p=34263"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:16:13","slug":"february2026-readingclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/february2026-readingclub\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2026 Reading Club: Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34265\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Feb-2026-Reading-Club-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Feb-2026-Reading-Club-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Feb-2026-Reading-Club-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Feb-2026-Reading-Club.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 1 in every 5 persons in the United States will be age 65 or older by 2030. Recognizing this growing population of older adults, what can we do to remain healthy? Discover an NNLM Reading Club book and get the conversation started with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/reading-club\/topic\/260\">related resource guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/reading-club\/book\/last-devil-die\"><em>The Last Devil to Die<\/em><\/a> by Richard Osman &#8211; In the fourth installment of the bestselling series, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim race to solve a friend\u2019s murder and recover a missing package, plunging them into a treacherous antiques underworld of fraud, crime, and betrayal as danger mounts and trust evaporates.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/reading-club\/book\/gray-love\"><em>Gray Love<\/em><\/a> edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood &#8211; Explores how 45 adults aged 60\u201394 navigate dating, partnership, and solitude, revealing a deep longing for connection in later life alongside relationship challenges, including past histories, family reactions, alternative relationship models, aging bodies, and the pressures of time, illness, and mortality.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/reading-club\/book\/never-too-late\"><em>Never Too Late<\/em><\/a> by Shannon Dowler &#8211; A guide to sexual health for adults over 55 using patient stories and humor to address rising STD rates among sexually active older adults in the age of dating apps, retirement communities, and sexual enhancement drugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 1 in every 5 persons in the United States will be age 65 or older by 2030. Recognizing this growing population of older adults, what can we do to remain healthy? Discover an NNLM Reading Club book and get the conversation started with our related resource guide. The Last&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/february2026-readingclub\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-members","category-opportunity-to-participate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34266,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34263\/revisions\/34266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}