Good advice, from the neck down

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	• I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman (Vintage) Nora Ephron Vintage, 2008 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 325 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Women's Glib

This book provides good recreational reading and a hearty chuckle or two for those of us in Ms. Ephron's age group. What it doesn't provide is any insight into Ms. Ephron's thoughts or feelings -- obviously considerable resources that have given her the inner strength to meet the (very public) challenges and embarrassments she has faced. Perhaps this would have made the read less attractive to her supposed market.
I also couldn't help wondering if she knows what a terribly privileged life she has led.

Loved it.

I loved this book. I rang a friend to tell her about the emery board problem that Nora writes about, how when you buy a packet of them only the one you are using survives, the rest disappear. Makes me want to read everything she has ever written. I love her movies, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got mail and Hanging Up. If you are over 40 or even older in my case, read this book!

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Ahhhh, To Be Young Again.

A funny, quick read. The book will resonate more with the ever-wrinkling Baby Boomers than the Generation X, Y, Z or whatever the heck the younger age groups are being labeled nowadays. I doubt very much if my twenty-year-old self would have found most of Ms. Ephron observations to be amusing or worth my attention. However, speaking as a slowly-decaying, forty-seven-year-old male, the author's book was a wonderfully sarcastic and hilarious reproach about "the Golden Years." Well worth reading if you are old enough to remember when gas was 32 cents per gallon.

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Good advice, from the neck down

Producer, director, and screenwriter Nora Ephron brings forth a collection of essays about dealing with the progression of age, and a few glimpses of her life. Many of the essays were previously published in various periodicals, and they're all collected here in one place. Sharp and witty, she confronts a few issues that surround her life in a slim volume written similar to a personal journal.

She introduces us with an explanation that applications of lotions and creams and botox can help fight the effects of age, but nothing short of surgery can help with the neck. In fact, the neck can't be helped with surgery at all, unless a facelift is included. Its a double whammy, which is why many older women prefer to wear turtlenecks. A humorous, but solemn essay that depicts what lengths women will go through to achieve that youthful look.

Then in a wry twist of humor, she explains her search for the perfect purse. She hates purses and considers them " ...just a big dark hole full of stuff that you spend hours fishing around for." She talks about her trip abroad with her friend to purchase the perfect "Kelly " purse. However, after they find that "perfect" purse, it begins to rain. The purse isn't waterproofed, turning a fun purchase into a lip-biting, frustrating experience.

Filled with several essays about parts of her life, loaded with her dry humor and wit, this collection is meant for women everywhere. It's packed with an assortment of defined and sparkling pieces revealing the private misery, eccentricity and powerful emotions of a woman on the edge of senior citizenhood. I will definitely be purchasing several copies for my women friends and sisters.

Armchair Interviews says: For women who want wonderful writing and stories.

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With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.

Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of truths, laugh out loud moments that will appeal to readers of all ages.

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