Book review – “I Hate My Neck” by Nora Ephron

I’ll admit there are a lot of things I find irritating about Nora Ephron movies – all the emphasis on food and interior design and sentimentality. But she’s a great writer and some of the stuff here is terrific – advising parents of teenagers to buy a dog so someone will be glad to see them, doing aerobics to Chicago. I wasn’t so interested in the whining about the price of rent in New York and the state of her neck and aging, but it’s all well written and it is consistently smart and witty. There’s som unexpectedly moving stuff too when she talks about her friend who died young (age 66).