Nora Ephron's "I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being' a Woman"

Nora Ephron's brisk selling new book (currently #4 on New York Times bestsellers) "I Fell Bad About My Neck and other Thoughts on Being a Woman" is now out. It's packed with 15 essays in 160 pages written for pre- and post-menopausal women with the message that "it's sad to be over sixty."

Ephron is the author of 12 screenplays (including "When Harry Met Sally" and "You've Got Mail", three Academy Awards nominations; "Heartburn," the story (with recipes) of the disintegration of her second marriage; and five collections of essays. He also blogs for the "Huffington Post." Ephron is funny and attacks female aging in a witty, realist manner. If you are interested in hearing the truth of what getting older is really like for women today, written in the form of friend-to-friend, then this book is certainly for you.

Does Ephron consider aging to be all bad? Of course not and here is one benefit she cites:

"You feel fantastically wise, you can't remember anyone's name. So it's this ridiculous combination of fantastically wise and foolish."

Another benefit says Ephron:

"A whole other great thing about age is you do get a lot mellower about some things."

She then lists a series of things that no longer bother her but appear to drive the rest of the world batty. You'll have to check out Ehron's book to see what we're referring to.