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2kerrymehome's review
funny
fast-paced
2.75
Love the Shel Silverstein irony, and the meter, rhyme, subjects, lists, and humor. But she's so self aware that she doesn't write about anything real. And she's obsessed with her weight.
yetilibrary's review against another edition
3.0
A little dated but still has some gems. Definitely knew what some of my feelings were. *sigh*
wanderlustlover's review
4.0
This was delightful. I'm not sure I'd call it most masterful poetry I've ever read, but I felt deeply moved (to love, to sadness, to sympathy, to scatteredness, to panic, to delight, to jealousy and letting go), so of the best votes out there: I'll definitely be looking for more of her books in this series in the future. I want all the volumes from age 20 to age 80 now.
heatherdmoore's review
3.0
I read this after reading Viorst’s book about her 20’s and didn’t realize that she had pulled the best poems from this book and the one about her 30’s (along with creating some new ones), and thereby creating a masterful book covering three decades. Bottom line, skip this one and the one on her 30’s, and just read When Did I Stop Being Twenty: And Other Injustices. It tells a hilarious, super-dated-but-in-a-great-way story of her 20’s-40’s in poetry form.
bookcrazylady45's review
3.0
I guess the author didn't have as much to write about at 40 as she did at 20 and 30 :-) Still very funny and touching look at an educated woman reduced to housewife and mother.
magzad's review
5.0
I love these poems! The feelings and experiences of turning 40 (for a woman) must be relatively universal because I identified with every last poem in this book. I found them to be both raucously funny and utterly sad...if only because I understood every single one at gut level. Reading them was bittersweet. Judith Viorst got it so right; she "hit the nail on the head", so to speak.
visualradish's review
It’s crazy how much I, an Indian male in the twenty first century, have in common with a upper middle class white woman from the 70s.
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