Edith Piaf was famous for singing a song called “Non, je ne regrette rien.” It’s a good song.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person.” Reading is grist. “I want to talk to her. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.” FreeBookNotes found 8 important quotes from I’ve yet to read Heartburn, but based on how much I enjoyed this book, I probably will. It crosses your mind that on some level, you spent hours and days and months and years without laying a glove on them, but don’t dwell. 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 … “We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don’t quite believe it.” After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from. We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it.” You walk up Third Avenue planning to buy a brownie at a bakery you've always been loyal to, and the bakery's gone. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you.

People have only one way to be.

Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?” Nora Ephron is back with this slim, delightful volume of short essays about what it's like to be a modern woman, particularly a woman "of a certain age."

Copyright © FreeBookNotes.com 2014-2020. What I Wish I’d Known. But it's not. User ratings. 5 stars: 20: 4 stars: 35: 3 stars: 21: 2 stars: 15: 1 star: 3: LibraryThing Review User Review - cavernism - LibraryThing. Someone I know once wisely said that the expression "It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" is completely wrong where New York is concerned; the opposite is true. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house.

Do you live every day as if it’s your last, or do you save your money on the chance you’ll live twenty more years? A miasma of melancholy hangs there, forcing you to deal with the fact that your life, however happy and successful, has been full of disappointments and mistakes, little ones and big ones. Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Imagine the sort of essays that Carrie Bradshaw would write if she were a bit older and slightly less obsessed with …

“I loathed being sixty-four, and I will hate being sixty-five. You love them madly. They make you proud. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. There’s no point. “Do you splurge or do you hoard? Your dry cleaner move to Florida; your dentist retires; the lady who made the pies on West Fourth Street vanishes; the maitre d' at P.J. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.” Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. I Feel Bad About My Neck. Random House Incorporated, 2008 - Humor - 137 pages. It's much more expensive (because you need to eat all your meals out and pay for a place to sleep) and much more unfriendly.

Excerpt I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. “Death doesn't really feel eventual or inevitable. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. They make you laugh. “I live in New York City. The information about I Feel Bad About My Neck shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. “Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. “Sometimes I think that not having to worry a bout your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.” If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.” “When I pass a bookshelf, I like to pick out a book from it and thumb through it. To view 3 Short Summaries and 3 Book Reviews for this book, visit our “Reading is one of the main things I do.

The worrying is forever.” Welcome back. You don't mind this when you live here; when you live here, it's part of the caffeinated romance to this city that never sleeps. No odes to Jimmy Choos and Birkin bags here.