A review by heatherdmoore
How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities by Judith Viorst

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.