Gail Collins, _No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History_

 ONE OF OUR book clubs chose this as the February selection; I don't think I would have read it otherwise. 

It's certainly readable, briskly written and skillfully synthesized from a wide range of secondary sources. But there is not much that is new in it. It usually focuses on already well-known figures (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Meryl Streep), and the main thesis (over the course of American history, older women have been taking on more visible and more important public roles) was not challenging. 

Reading it was like eating a box of Triscuits--easily and quickly done, but leaving you with the feeling that your time might have been better spent.