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Picked this book up at a book crossing and not sure if I would read it, but since it's a short book and it was supposedly funny, I took my chance to read it after being in such a hyperactive tensed world of New World in the Chaos Walking series. I have to say that the first story about the neck was just too not "relatable" (what's the word for this?) that I consider whether I should read on. But I'm glad I did, as a lot of the stories in this book are funny and as a woman, something I can go rel
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I really wanted to like this book more, I so, so did. I mean this is the woman who wrote some of my very favourite rom com movies, so I had to love this right?
Well... Sometimes I did. Sometimes it was funny. Once I even loled. But more often I was kind of bored. I couldn't relate to a lot of it and found myself frustrated and angry with the author here and there. Meh. ...more
Well... Sometimes I did. Sometimes it was funny. Once I even loled. But more often I was kind of bored. I couldn't relate to a lot of it and found myself frustrated and angry with the author here and there. Meh. ...more
Like spending time with an old, favorite friend.
This book was funny, funny, funny. A little too funny, meaning I related to it a little too well, for it being written by a 60-something woman.
Nora Ephron is also the writer of some great screenplays: Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn, etc.
Nora Ephron is also the writer of some great screenplays: Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn, etc.
It is a funny/happy/sad kind of book. I thought it was going to be a funny book about aging but it is actually almost a mini autobiography of the author. Nevertheless, an excellent read especially for “mature” women.
Funny and charming book about what it is like to be an aging woman. However, toward the end of the book the stories become very, very "New York" and I could not relate as well to those (being from "fly over land").
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