I'm Too Young To Be Seventy: And Other Delusions (Judith Viorst's Decades)

Has Judith Viorst met my parents and in-laws? Because this book is exactly about them! And based on the feedback I've received from their friends that have borrowed the book, the author has clearly hit just about every other married couple of a certain age. Fun book, great gift. And very true!

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Been too busy to start reading yet, but if it's as good as the others of J.V's I've read I'll love it & laugh out loud. It was delivered promptly as promised.

This is a fast read but very well written.I bought this for a friends 70th birthday but she is not married and this book really is for a married couple like my husband & i whom have been married for 36 years and- he is also 70 years old.You will recognize alot of stages in life that are funny but true.I recommend this because its funny,priced right,& will make you smille.enjoy!

I turn each decade just about a year after Judith Viorst and, up until turning 70, thoroughly enjoyed each lovely, funny, poignant, sad and uplifiting book in the series. I own every one of the books, starting with the wonderful first book that took me into my third decade. I have given them as gifts to friends, so it really saddens me to say that "I'm Too Young to be Seventy" just lacks the immediacy, the OMG, that is exactly right feel. Perhaps, after six decades of being right on track with each other, Judith and I took different forks in the road, but I don't think so. It just seems that this book tries too hard. Maybe it is a bit too upbeat. Where is the angst for me to cuddle up with? There were a couple of chuckles (not enough), but not a tear to be spilled. One does not turn 70 without a few tears. The book painfully strains, and ususally fails, to capture whatever it is that makes turning 70 what it is, wonderful and really terrible, and most of all, unbelievably and scarily mind-boggling. Yes, yes, condsidering the alternatives and all that, but who really spends much time considering the alternatives. So sad not to enter my Seventies with Judith by my side.

Like all of Judith Viorst's efforts (an entire series of "ages," all of them appropriate & lovely), this boOk was a gift for a beloved woman. (Yes, she was given all the previous books.) Her daughter was given (by us) the "I'm Too Young to Be Forty" (cheering up a celebration that cold have been otherwise sort of grim -- "Oh, my God, forty!! I'm sunk!" Ms. Viorst if a wonderful, surprising writer, I will spare you my take on her work, but suffice to say: Try One.

I bought this for a friend’s 79th birthday. The book is slim but a great gift filled with charming anecdotes

Love her work! I have all the decade books she's written, including the one on being 80, and I haven't even reached that yet! I am still in my 60's and bought this for a friend for her 70th birthday. We both love the clever and spot on observations of Judith Viorst in describing the experience of aging. I'd recommend this to anyone with a sense of humor and a taste for good writing. Very witty!

A very entertaining book for anyone of 70. Great fun!

J Voirst I have read for more than 40 years her articles in Redbook magazine, her very wise book about growing and have the neccesary lost. Some if her poetry and this one about ageing is very good with her caracteristic humos

It is a great 70 th birthday gift❤️

This makes a great gift for a woman turning 70!

Good book, with very witty pages, well worth a present to an elderly relative, and a welcome present in a stocking.