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I closed my review of [b:I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman|8765|I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman|Nora Ephron|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320433577s/8765.jpg|2516574] with the following, which seems a good opener for this review:P.S.
I do not recommend following [b:I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman|8765|I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman|Nora Ephron|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320433577s/8765.jpg|2516574] with this book. Delia starts out with the Nora's end days. I've been crying in the car for two drives, now. It's been hard to go from Nora talking about death, losing her BFF and wondering who was next - and now I know she knew she was sick when she wrote that - to Delia talking about how her sister's death impacted her, both during and after and even still, I am sure. OMG, it just hurts. And it's scary. I have a sister. We don't collaborate on books, we're not famous, but I can't lose her and this part of the book is terrifying to me because I don't want to think about the surviving sister syndrome. And it's sad. So I don't recommend it as a chaser.
Despite that, I am thankful that my brain works the way it does and made me listen to the two, one after another. They're wonderful bookends for each other.
I find I like the Ephrons, at least these particular two. My family was so different yet so similar. We're not Jewish...hell, we're not even religious!...and we're not in the entertainment industry and we don't all have the same career and we don't have money. But I understand the dynamics of a dysfunctional family - we didn't deal with alcohol so much as cocaine and abuse and who knows what else and we only had one parent down, not both - of having resentment toward our mother, of having to love and battle with three other siblings. While the Ephrons were not like my family, there was still so much I understood.
I really enjoyed listening to this and I think I'm going to buy these two books for my sister and make her read them in the same order I did.
I hope she also cries.