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Original Title:	I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
ISBN:	0307264556 (ISBN13: 9780307264558)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2007)

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman Hardcover | Pages: 137 pages

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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. The woman who brought us When Harry Met Sally . . ., Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, and Bewitched, and the author of best sellers Heartburn, Scribble Scribble, and Crazy Salad, discusses everything--from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. Oh, and she can't stand the way her neck looks. But her dermatologist tells her there's no quick fix for that. Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years ("I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at") and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton--from a distance, of course. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. Utterly courageous, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat.

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Title	:	I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Author	:	Nora Ephron
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 137 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2006 by Knopf Publishing Group
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Humor. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Essays. Biography. Audiobook. Biography Memoir

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Do not read/listen to this book if you're searching for answers to life's existential questions. That isn't what this is about, although from the title alone I gathered that. What it is is an insight into some of the pitfalls of becoming older -- frivolous pitfalls with which many readers can identify and laugh about together with the author.As Ehpron so wisely reminds herself and the reader, even though there are difficulties with aging, the alternative is no picnic either.

It's unavoidable, we are all growing old. And in this book, Nora Ephron has decided to tackle some of the more obvious annoyances of aging. I have to say that when I first started this book, I thought, "Wow, she REALLY doesn't like herself!" But as the narrative continued, I realized that Ephron simply addressed the issues that all women grapple with as they are aging. And she does it in a highly humorous way.The audiobook was great! I'm sure the print version was entertaining as well, but I

Nora Ephron is, hands-down, one of the funniest women in America. Her novels, movies, and essay collections have brought me to tears by way of laughter more than once. That's why I was a bit disappointed by this collection of essays, loosely tied around the topic of aging. The essays on aging were amusing, but not particularly funny or fresh. It was like eating a day-old doughnut -- still tasty, but probably not worth all the calories. The weird thing -- her non-age-related essays were

The thing is this. Nora and I are not sisters. In "On Maintenance": "When and how did it happen that you absolutely had to have a manicure?" er, never? I also don't care that much about make up or matching handbags or wrinkles. I JUST REALLY DON'T CARE. What I care about is women being raped, beaten up, paid less,not let in, talked down to and generally fucked over because they are women."I Feel Bad About My Neck" adopts a universal voice but talks only about a sliver of privileged society. It

Agreed. I listened to the audiobook after undergoing a major surgery and I could barely get through it for these reasons. Maybe if I was older and not

Sometimes it takes a friend to get you to read a book. I Feel Bad About My Neck has been on my physical bookshelves for years. Id look at it and look at my neck and think, Do you really want to read this book? Ive got six friends on GR with the beautiful name of Julie but it was the clever one that wanted to be certain to stand out, the Julie preceded by a flower, that finally gave me the push to read this book. Thank you.Heartburn, published in 1983 was my first encounter with Nora Ephron. I

I have to say I'm a little baffled by Nora Ephron. She was in intern in the JFK White House and had a free pass to roam its halls. She was a reporter at Newsweek in the 1960's, before they even had female reporters. She's been married three times. One of her husbands was Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Bernstein of the Watergate scandal. And when he had an affair it wasn't just with any old woman, but with the wife of the British ambassador to the United States. She's been nominated for three academy