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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn�t (yet) forgotten. Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life (�Journalism: A Love Story�) and about breaking up even harder with the men in her life (�The D Word�); lists �Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again� (�There is no explaining the stock market but people try�; �You can never know the truth of anyone�s marriage, including your own�; �Cary Grant was Jewish�; �Men cheat�); reveals the alarming evolution, a decade after she wrote and directed You�ve Got Mail, of her relationship with her in-box (�The Six Stages of E-Mail�); and asks the age-old question, which came first, the chicken soup or the cold? All the while, she gives candid, edgy voice to everything women who have reached a certain age have been thinking . . . but rarely acknowledging. Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true�and could have come only from Nora Ephron�I Remember Nothing is pure joy.… (more)
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Overview: This is another classic Nora Ephron piece in which she reflects on different aspects of her life, things that drive her crazy, the struggles of growing older, and a few other small rants that are worth listening
Highlights: I listened to this on audio read by her, so it was a gem. She’s so witty and incredibly intelligent and I’m more obsessed with her than I was before. There were parts that made me laugh too hard, especially her little rants on not remembering things and people that drive her absolutely crazy. She’s so raw and real about it, and I don’t know what it says about me, a 30-something, that I relate to her so well (her 69-year-old self at the time she wrote this).
Pre-Requisites: Just an appreciation for Nora Ephron, and if you don’t have that yet when you pick up the book, you will by the time you’re finished!
If you like: dry wit and humor, Nora Ephron, short pieces/reflections, reminiscing on the past, food, real women, quick reads
I borrowed this from the library, where it was on display, and I'm still embarrassed to say I read most of it. It must have taken me 30 minutes.
The essay on her start in
Was she ever really a journalist? That is, was she ever capable of writing about something other than herself? The evidence here is not pretty.
I bought this only after she has died, so her two lists at the end of the book, "What
Listening to I Remember
Contrary to the title and the annoying first few minutes where she recounted things she had purportedly forgotten, Nora Ephron remembers a lot. An entertaining way to spend a few hours and read by the author.
mildly funny
Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life (“Journalism: A Love Story”) and about breaking up even harder with the men in her life (“The D Word”); lists “Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again” (“There is no