I have always loved Judith Viorst for her wit and wisdom. Her poems usually elicit a chuckle, but they also touch a place in the heart. This book is no exception.

Really cute volume of poetry mostly focused on aging and reflecting on life & marriage – pretty much what you'd expect from the title. The illustrations in this volume are cute, too.

Note: I read this because I know someone turning 70 this year, and I was wondering if this would make a good gift. I still have many years to go to reach this point myself... and yet some of the commentary fits right in for me, too. You don't have to be nearing 70 to enjoy this.

It was a funny book about aging.

Gifted this book as a present for this unmentionable birthday, I wasn’t sure if I’d enjoy it. But it’s a charming little book and as i’m the first of my circle of friends to hit this milestone.m all I can say is paybacks are hell.

Reading this one day after my 71st birthday and her poetry still speaks to me. She makes everything amusing.

The beloved bestselling author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty now tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with her usual wry good humor.
Fans of Judith Viorst's funny, touching, and wise poems about turning thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty will love this new volume for the woman who deeply believes she is too young to be seventy, "too young in my heart and my soul, if not in my thighs."

Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married though thermostatically incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod with rueful recognition when she asks, "Am I required to think of myself as a basically shallow woman because I feel better when my hair looks good?," when she presses a few helpful suggestions on her kids because "they may be middle aged, but they're still my children," and when she graciously -- but not too graciously -- selects her husband's next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled "If I Should Die Before I Wake, Here's the Wife You Next Should Take." Though Viorst acknowledges she is definitely not a good sport about the fact that she is mortal, her poems are full of the pleasures of life right now, helping us come to terms with the passage of time, encouraging us to keep trying to fix the world, and inviting us to consider "drinking wine, making love, laughing hard, caring hard, and learning a new trick or two as part of our job description at seventy."

I'm Too Young to Be Seventy is a joy to read and makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has reached or is soon to reach that -- it's not so bad after all -- seventh decade.

Enjoyable poetry on reaching this milestone. Includes lighthearted reflections on the aging body, relationships, and the meaning of life.

This is a perfect book for me right now. Short, whimsical poems about being 70 and not quite believing it. Poems are grouped into: At Seventy; Still Married; The Children and Grandchildren; The Rest of It. Published in 2005, there's even one about telling the grandchildren about 9-11.
The poem "Re: Vision" ends with the perfect line:
"I'm absolutely thrilled
At how perfect the world becomes
When I take off my glasses."

This is a book of poems about turning 70. I expected this to be a laugh out loud funny book and while parts of it were humorous overall I felt the book fell flat.

Too true!

I am almost 70 and this look is scarily true and fun! I would recommend this book to anyone at any age.

Funny whether or not it was tongue in cheek or real life, there is a lot of truth in these short poems for women of any age.

This is the second book I've read by Judith Violist, the first one about becoming 60. I'm going to be 70 in July, and I think exactly what the title says, "I'm Too Young to Be Seventy". The author pinpoints what goes on with yourself as you get older, and breaks the book into chapters: "At Seventy", "Still Married", " The Children and Grandchildren", and "The Rest of It". It is written in poetry.

One of the poems I especially enjoyed was entitled, " They May Be Middle Aged, But They're Still My Children". It talks about all of the things your children advise you to do at this age, and on the other side of the coin, the things you end up telling "But they could listen".

"Unlike a book, I can't start again from the beginning.
Unlike a video movie, I cannot re-wind.
The ice that is under my feet keeps on thinning and thinning.
Do I mind? Do I mind? You bet your sweet ass I mind."

As Thumper's mom said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."