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mdudalis's review against another edition
4.0
in the end of the day there where more essays that i liked than disliked.. besides that norah ephron was kind of an idol to me growing up due to my mother being obsessed with her movies ★
garatandhi's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Nora ephron you will always be the goat I love you
mrs_bonaventure's review against another edition
3.0
This took me six months to finish! I bought it on impulse at Christmas, swayed by India Knight & Joanna Goddard. And Nora Ephron truly is a feminist cultural institution, for so many reasons - from "Be the heroine of your own life," to "I'll have what she's having." We have Caitlin Moran, the eighties & nineties had Nora. But I found it heavy going in big lumps - she wrote in magazine columns, after all - so I had to slow down. At the end of it I got over the sinking depression I felt when reading the feminist commentary from 1972 (the year I was born and so little has changed!) and had a real feeling for who this woman was through the course of her life. Worth sticking with it.
catherinemcfall's review against another edition
emotional
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medium-paced
4.5
Some repeated essays from 'I Remember Nothing' and 'I feel bad about my neck', but why wouldn't you want to read one of Ephron's essays twice? Liked the variety of material included, for instance, the first act of her play, Lucky Guys. If you've never read anything by Ephron, this collection is the most comprehensive guide through her work.
katherineellen's review against another edition
emotional
funny
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4.0
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
notveronicamars's review against another edition
3.75
I read almost all of this book on a beach, which whilst not intentional taught me that when you gasp at lines like “People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events” in public, you will attract some curious looks.
glowbird's review against another edition
3.0
This is a large anthology, so I cherry-picked. The essays about the women's movement in the 1970's were really interesting, but some of the blogging from the early aughts was a bit stale. I skipped the novel and the screen play, but seeing it in the table of contents compelled me to order When Harry Met Sally from Netflix. Haven't seen that since I was a teenager, so we'll see how perspectives have shifted. I'm definitely a fan of her writing and will probably check back in later in life when I've more in common with her later work.