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Chessa
Apr 06, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: feminist, comedy, memoir, audiobook, essays
Charming is a good word for this book. Also, wry. I laughed out loud during the Purse essay - I'm so with Ephron on that. I also loved her essays on how food and cooking has changed over the years, and the essay on the rapture of books should be read by any book lover. The essay on her apartment building dragged on and on - I couldn't connect with that one. Overall though, I laughed, I cringed, I teared up, I wondered - it was singularly strange to hear a woman talk about how unexcited about agi ...more
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Ashley Holstrom
Feb 09, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: nonfiction, body, feminism, audiobook, essays, humor
I could listen to Nora Ephron talk about womanhood and aging and love and journalism and books and food forever.
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Cari
Sep 15, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: funny, audiobooks, nonfiction
4.5 stars. Her descriptions of the rapture of reading are perfection and I loved her devotion to New York.
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Ana
Jan 24, 2017 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: essays, non-fiction, library, women-list, humor
Alas, I do not think this book was meant for me.

I kept on seeing it being recommended by various women of note, in various places, and thought I'd take a look for myself.

Maybe if I'd read some earlier pieces, eased my way into Ms. Ephron's written work...

But I didn't.

And reading about (amongst other things) a love affair with a stupendously expensive apartment - $1,500 in the 1980s in NYC *was* expensive - left me flabbergasted. I just didn't get it.

So, no I wouldn't recommend this.

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Samantha
Feb 25, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: bookclub, read-harder-2015
This book was such a treat.
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Penny
Oct 15, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Jess
Jul 26, 2011 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2011
Paloma
Nov 15, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Amy
Dec 25, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Amanda
Aug 30, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Booktart
Oct 14, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: essays
Jocelyn
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Jenny
Jul 15, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: nonfiction, 2016
Jamie Dornfeld
Nov 13, 2016 marked it as undecided-or-not-interested  ·  review of another edition
Cari
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Grace
Feb 18, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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