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“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything.”

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Remember Nothing & Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

April 4, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

Reading makes me feel 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. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron

NTE's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron ·
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I have to begin with a few words about androgeny.

Crazy Salad by Nora Ephron

Scribble Scribble by Nora Ephron

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Crazy Salad – 3/5 Stars For me, reading this book came in three real swings. The first was marrying my reading of later essay collections to this one. There’s a lot of similarities between the essays in say I Feel Bad About My Neck to some of the essays here, especially ones like “Crazy Lady” and the ones about her college reunion. So there’s a kind of continuity. These essays tends to be funny in general, and slightly cutting but not particularly incisive. All of which […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: crazy salad, Nora ephron, scribble scribble

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:578 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: crazy salad, Nora ephron, scribble scribble ·
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How Is It Almost September? Catching Up with Cannonball

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

Crime In Progress by Glenn Simpson & Peter Fritsch

Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Like to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block

Seinfeldia: How A Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Rebecca Harrington

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel

August 27, 2020 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

O.K., I admit it, I have not posted any reviews this Cannonball. It’s just been a weird and for too many, sad time, hasn’t it? But I have managed to do a little reading. These may just be capsule reviews, but that’s just about all I can handle at the moment. There have been some good books and not so good books, but it’s 2020, so that’s par for the course. Looking at this list I realize that I have been drawn to books to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anand Giridharadas, Burglars Can't Be Choosers, fleetwood mac, Glenn Simpson & Peter Fritsch, I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Jerry Seinfeld, Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel, lawrence block, Mary Trump, music, Nora ephron, politics, rebecca harrington

xoxoxoe's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction · Tags: Anand Giridharadas, Burglars Can't Be Choosers, fleetwood mac, Glenn Simpson & Peter Fritsch, I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Jerry Seinfeld, Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel, lawrence block, Mary Trump, music, Nora ephron, politics, rebecca harrington ·
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“Write everything down.”

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

March 28, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

This was my first Nora Ephron book, and likely my last. [If this isn’t a good representation let me know and I’ll certainly revisit!] This is a collection written in the early 2000s, far enough past 9/11 that it’s enjoyably light and perhaps too far from the present that some of the lines are a little…dated? I don’t know. She lived in a different world than I ever have or will – fancy NYC apartments with five-digit monthly rents, East versus West Manhattan sunlight woes, door […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, humor, New York City, Nora ephron, stories

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, humor, New York City, Nora ephron, stories ·
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Same, Nora

I remember nothing by Nora Ephron

March 9, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Nora Ephron’s later works seem to exist so that I have something to read while killing time reselling my old books to the used bookstore. They take about 45 minutes to read, are pleasant but not taxing, and amusing without a ton of investment. They’re ephemeral as a result, and I am only 80% certain that I remember the essays correctly. Like, I just read something about how useless egg white omelets are and that the correct way to make one is to add yolks […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: Nora ephron

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:32 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: Nora ephron ·
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I was not the intended audience for these

The Need by Helen Phillips

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

February 11, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

One of these books is about a pregnant woman discovering and dealing with her husband’s infidelity and the other is about a mother dealing with a terrifying home invasion so you wouldn’t necessarily think they would be grouped together but no, I’m going for it. And let me explain why. The biggest and most truthful reason is that I didn’t much care for either and by lumping them together I can spend fewer words on both. The second and more tenuous reason is that both […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: helen phillips, Nora ephron

lowercasesee's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: helen phillips, Nora ephron ·
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