![]() ![]() At 34, continue for nine more years to show off, and then it’s over. “If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini and don’t take it off until you’re 34,” she instructs in the confiding, busybody tone that comes so entertainingly to her. But she retains an uncanny ability to sound like your best friend, whoever you are, even when she is describing the death of her own best friend in a sobering piece called “Considering the Alternative.” When, in the end, she has no better way to ward off mortality than staying silky smooth by using the right bath oil, a certain guilty, pampered segment of the reading public will know exactly what she means. Ephron unavoidable subjects for contemplation: age, loss and vanity. ![]() ![]() Book of the Month: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (2006) Critical Evaluation ![]()
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