The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

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Together this group create outings which they all enjoy including things people may frown on such as visiting the pub.

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There are tons of witty funny moments with Hendrik and his friends getting into all sorts of trouble and fun to pass their days. I imagine that anyone with family will enjoy this read, provided they don't trip over the load of guilt they are carrying around about the amount of time they spend with their elders or the choices they have made for their loved ones.

The author then said that since he did not want publicity and cherished his peace and quiet, he kept his identity carefully guarded. But the home's director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The individual who is writing these entries and his friends live in the independent living portion of the facility, but they have the option of eating meals prepared and served in the center's dining hall.

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He is best friends with Anja the assistant to one of the administrators and another man named Evert. The work was written as the diary of a man in his eighties who is fed up with the indignities of aging. You’d almost wish that at her next bingo game she would have a stroke, break a hip AND choke to death on a cookie. Rare visits from family are only intended to salve the guilty consciences of those who decline to take them in, and the seniors’ finances are almost entirely extinguished, thanks in part to offspring who have taken their savings from them – “for safekeeping”.Whether or not that comes to pass, this remains an entertaining and uplifting story of a man in the winter of his days, stoic in the face of bureaucratic nonsense and an unabashed need to wear a nappy. When Hendrick Groen’s novel “The Diary of Hendrick Groen” was published in 2014 it quickly went up the charts to become an international bestseller in more than 21 countries. Het vervolg Zolang er Leven is: Het nieuwe geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 85 jaar verscheen in 2016. I must try to be thankful for every happy day, as Grietje is, and I am trying with all my might, but sometimes I’m just not mighty enough. Hendrick Groen was the listed name of the author while the cover had the carelessly sketched picture of an elderly man.

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From his mortification of his "dribbling" and leaving yellow stains in his white underpants, to the suggestion that people go to the "shit clinic" and quit bothering him with their whining about their daily constipation or diarrhea stories while he is trying to take afternoon tea and cake.O Diário Secreto de Hendrik Groen" é um livro sobre um velho que detesta velhos, e que aos 83 anos e 1/4, optou por um bravo pontapé na velhice!

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This is fiction (however there is some debate) and written by Groen, (Hendrik Groen is an alias, and Meulenhoff is an unknown Amsterdam resident). In this anonymous Dutch novel in diary form, Hendrik Groen provides a full reckoning of how 2013 went down in his Amsterdam old folks’ care home. I have no hesitation in recommending The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 ¼ Years Old as an uplifting, at times hilarious though heartbreaking read. What a change this was from my usual genres, but I'm so glad I read it, it was a pleasure and an honour to share Hendrik's life, if only for a year!His bestselling book might have offered some clues, even though the only thing it asserts is that it is the diary of Henrick Groen, which most fans rightly guessed was a pseudonym. In hetzelfde jaar werd ook een toneelbewerking onder regie van Gijs de Lange op de planken gebracht, met Beau Schneider in de rol van Hendrik Groen. Hendrik’s diary entries are not simple prose but lengthy rants about whatever has got Hendrik’s goat that day. With little to do, other than survive, and possibly chatting up a hot old babe while dining or playing Klaverjassen, a Dutch card game, Hendrik chose to become a diarist.