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dsbressette's review against another edition
4.0
I have always loved Nora Ephron. I wish I had known her. This book helped me get to know her better. It was not treacly or maudlin, but simply real. I think Nora would have liked this one.
inthecommonhours's review against another edition
I will read an uneven and at times unlikeable book to have even few more hours in the presence of Nora's words/stories/life.
shs111's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to love this book, because I love Nora Ephron so. But I found that it waned somewhere a third of the way in, and then toward the end lost energy. Can't say that I loved the author's writing style, although I deeply respected his friendship with Nora.
feminaformosa's review against another edition
4.0
Very sweet story of a close platonic friendship between the author and Nora Ephron. Written with the love and admiration that one has for one's closest friends without romanticizing - the kind of love that includes the faults as well as the strengths of the loved one.
bookliz's review against another edition
3.0
Slow at first but then got much more interesting. I wish I could have been a friend of Nora Ephron.
anndren's review against another edition
3.0
A lot of New York people, places, and things I didn’t know or particularly care about, but I loved reading about her work and her writing.
inkstainedlife's review against another edition
3.0
The book's structure is sometimes rambling, its tone sometimes fawning. But I can't fault Richard Cohen for that. I fawn over all things Nora Ephron, and as a result, this biography offers a welcome glimpse into a life whose end I still mourn.
ekchilton's review against another edition
3.0
I absolutely loved the anecdotes of Nora Ephron’s life and getting to know her as a person a bit better. The longer I read, the more I was thrown off by Cohen’s non-chronological telling, peppered by repetition and by names that had been explained fifty pages ago and were being referenced again suddenly. Great content, suffering from a sporadically enjoyable style.
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