In her short collection of essays,I Feel Bad About My Neck, screenwriter and author Nora Ephron writes about being a woman.  She makes amusing observations about topics of special interest to women of middle-age and beyond - skin tone, food, purses, reading, marriage, home, children, insomnia, diminished eyesight, loss, and mortality.  She also reveals, with much candor, many details of her more-or-less charmed life. 

There is much to celebrate in this slim volume and some laugh-out-loud moments.  Yes, for today's woman, 60 is the new 50.  We've come a long way, baby.  We have great haircuts and have discovered the miracle of camoflage using turtleneck sweaters and scarves.  But aging still has its downside, and there is an inescapable melancholy lingering around these wise, witty, and yet very readable essays.