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luki's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
theundecidedcat's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
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medium-paced
4.0
While I didn’t understand or love all the old American politics in it, and it also being a bit out dated. I did still really enjoy this one, I have just really been loving working my way through Nora Ephron’s books. The last 30% or so really reminded me why I love Ephron, she’s a romantic, she can feel like the everyday woman, she can be so relatable and honest and I just love her for that. I’ve done her last two published essay collections so far and I’m keen to try the semi autobiographical/fictional novel Heartburn next. Definitely thinking essay collections might be my new favourite thing to read.
alicia_sg's review
5.0
Nora Ephron fue una reconocida periodista, guionista y cineasta. Este breve libro con parte de sus ensayos es un ejercicio de escritura y humor como pocos. Desde el Alzheimer que le afectó en la última época de su vida hasta las sartenes de teflón, pasando por el matrimonio, las celebraciones navideñas y las inseguridades de la clase media. Ephron hace un divertidísimo repaso a los dramas de la edad adulta y la clase media.
vianadear's review against another edition
5.0
i could hear nora talk about drying cement and i would still be entertained
qwu's review against another edition
4.0
I guess I just have to admit that sometimes things are so weirdly amazing...? I didn't know I have a book written by Nora Ephron all the time I had it, and I didn't even realize just a couple weeks ago while I was reading another book on Bernstein and Woodward and their life before and after Watergate era, that this Nora is the "crazy" ex-wife of Bernstein. Anywho, this was a delightful, funny read. I completed the book in just a few hours and felt like I could keep reading more. Any break-up story is a one-sided story, and the Nora in the third person and in the first looks so vastly different. But that should make sense though. Besides, I'm not too interested in the author's personal life or who they really are I think. All I know is that she wrote a pretty good book, and that matters more.