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 … 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.
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I thoroughly enjoyed but didn’t love this book, even though I’m a big fan of Nora Ephron. I didn’t realize, foolishly perhaps, that this was a collection of essays, all individually delightful and yet somehow collectively disjointed.
Still, it’s unmistakably her style, her wit, and her astute observations.
Nora Ephron wrote my favorite movie ever, “When Harry Met Sally…” This memoir shows where a lot of that humor and wit came from. It’s a quick read but definitely worth the time. I laughed until I was refreshed. Highly recommend.
Super quick laugh out loud funny. Relatable and yet oh so not. Quite the stream of consciousness.
These short pieces by the wonderful, late Nora Ephron were a joy to read.
A good easy read, but with a poignant aspect knowing that Nora Ephron has now passed away.
I love Nora Ephron. Everything she does is good.
Very, very good!!!
Really funny take on life blended with some important truths about human nature. Such a loss that Nora Ephron is no longer with us.
Ms Ephron’s essays are brief, each chapter being a different topic. There are a number of accounts where hindsight reveals amusement over sad or tragic events in her life.
I would read a To-Do list by Nora Ephron written on the back of a grocery receipt because her wit and charming insight would somehow reflect even in a few sparse words.
This book is short and is not her best work in terms of a cohesive story (there isn’t one here) but knowing she already had been given her cancer diagnosis, it reveals the …
You can’t go wrong with Nora Ephron. She writes with style and grace, and draws you into her take on evolving as you grow up and older and wiser.
Nora Ephron is always the such a wit, but not totally cynical. She is hilarious and of her time. As a journalist in a man’s world and a feminist in a time it was jeered at. Always love her work.
Great for those of us of “a certain age” who can relate to brief memory issues. Not for very young people.
not as funny as Irma Bombeck
As usual, after reading a Nora Ephron book, I feel like I’ve had coffee with my oldest friend.
Average, a little twee
Thought this book was entertaining and turned out to be a fun quick read.
This is a short book collecting some amusing reflections by the author. I did not expect revelations or deep thought and I was not disappointed. Its just some anecdotal musings by the author on events in her life and opinions on events and people around her. Its very short and did not require a great deal of concentration to read and that is just …