A review by mrs_bonaventure
The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron

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.