Don't Count the Candles: Just Keep the Fire Lit!

By Joan Rivers

Book Overview

In this humorous, practical book, Joan Rivers shows every woman how to be the best she can be and stay youthful, healthy, and mellow at any--and every--age.

Filled with entertaining anecdotes and stories, Don't Count the Candles provides down-to-earth, sensible advice on everything that every woman needs to be her best, from wardrobe and fitness to surgery and sex. Here is Joan Rivers's own unique take on aging:

IQ does not decrease with age. If you were a moron at twenty, you will be a moron at seventy-five.At fifty, confine your piercing to sardine cans and keep your hair short.Eat all you want, just don't swallow it.A roll in the hay keeps the doctor away--unless he happens to be in the hay with you.

Take it from Joan Rivers--you've got a lot of living left to do

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061097977
• ISBN13: 9780061097973
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Advice

Joan Rivers has her fans. And she has her detractors as well. Yet not even her detractors can deny that she is an honest, gutsy lady who doesn't miss a trick, who took every lemon that life tossed at her and squeezed it until it became a delicious lemonade. As with her earlier books, DON'T COUNT THE CANDLES is written in her typical breezy style, with plenty of laughs thrown in for no extra charge. That's what this book is, too: a charge. Rare will be the reader who fails to be both enlightened and refreshed by Joan's entertaining outlook on life. For her fans, this one's a must.

lot of good ideas here...and funny, too

enjoyed reading this book. felt like joan rivers was talking directly to me. my only regret: wish there had been more examples for guys. (it is written, it seems, mostly for women--though it is applicable to either sex.)

Can we talk? Joan's latest book is fabulous in every way!

Reading "Don't Count the Candles. . ." is like having Joan Rivers talking directly to the reader--as an old (but fighting it every step of the way) friend. Her honest, shoot from the hip (liposuctioned, of course) game plan and advice is well-written and is done so with Joan's typical humor and wit. I'm buying a copy for all my friends and even my ex-mother-in-law! Go Joan! Keep up the great fight!

Just Like a Stand-up Routine

We really enjoyed the Audio book, It was like listening to a old stand-up routine on the Carson show. Should have mentioned Full Time RV as a great way to spend retirement. Thank you Joan for a great book to listen to while driving down the road.