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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
funny
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reflective
fast-paced
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no i didn’t finish this in like 2 minutes i just forgot to change it to currently reading
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Ephron writes with a nice colloquial ‘you-know-what-I-mean-we’re-all-like-this-aren’t-we’ tone which was cute in places but irritating in others. The story around her apartment being a key one.
I first read this when I was at university (over a decade ago!) and it spoke to me much more then than it does today.
I found her subject matter somewhat ... dull? And perhaps a little bit dated. A great deal of the narrative was taken up with vacuous details about her maintenance of herself. Name dropping. Complaining about paying extortionate rent, which it didn’t seem like she had any problem paying.
I think I had higher hopes for revisiting some insightful anecdotes but it just all missed something for me.
I first read this when I was at university (over a decade ago!) and it spoke to me much more then than it does today.
I found her subject matter somewhat ... dull? And perhaps a little bit dated. A great deal of the narrative was taken up with vacuous details about her maintenance of herself. Name dropping. Complaining about paying extortionate rent, which it didn’t seem like she had any problem paying.
I think I had higher hopes for revisiting some insightful anecdotes but it just all missed something for me.
This is a witty, insightful, and heartfelt collection of personal essays. Reading this felt like talking to your grandmother, whom you haven't seen in a while, and delighting in her charm and wisdom that she's trying to pass down on you. I always enjoy reading about people's experiences, and this felt like someone who has lived their whole life leaving you with fun notes and takes on things. With that, thank you, Nora! I think I have an overdue rewatch of When Harry Met Sally.
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𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜: 3 stars ★
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𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨/𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨:
“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”
“Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.”
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𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜: 3 stars ★
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𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨/𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨:
“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”
“Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.”
funny
reflective
fast-paced