Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I was not the intended audience for these

The Need by Helen Phillips

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

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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 […]

Diary of a wrinkly kid

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

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Glad I read this, but glad I read it while waiting to sell back a ton of other books; if I had purchased it the book would’ve ended up in the next resale pile. Nora Ephron writes with her usual humor and cleverness, but this reads like coming across your friend’s diary. It’s warm, and inviting, but in the manner of a broken-in shoe; it’s too familiar to feel like it warrants publication for the most part. It’s interesting enough, but there’s not much of […]

CBR11 Bingo: The Collection

Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron

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I think the only appropriate thing to read after a book heavily influenced by Nora Ephron is a collection written by Ms Ephron herself. “The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.” Wallflower at the Orgy is a collection of articles Ephron wrote in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. You can tell that this collection was relevant when it was originally published but unfortunately the articles didn’t age well. For the […]

Just some nice books.

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I Feel Bad about My Neck The charm of this book lies in the fact that the audiobook was read by Nora Ephron. I listened to the whole thing on a walk. This is a short collection of essays about aging in various kinds of ways, whether that means the effects on aging on your body or the simply just the passing of time. So those two themes, along with a few others, sort of permeate this whole collection. The essays include the frustration of […]

Play the song of life, write the words that sing.

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This review is for the audio version of this book. As a public service announcement, I recommend that you check in with your local library to see if they support OneClickdigital or other apps that let you download audiobooks to your smartphone via library membership. I have listened to a lot of hot bestsellers this way for free! Free! The Little Paris Book Shop is about a lot of things: the love of books, the art of living, courage, delicious food, loyal friends, and second […]

I’ll Definitely Forget This Soon

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This is my second Nora Ephron essay collection (again an audio version read by the author). Unfortunately I didn’t not enjoy it as much as her previous effort (I Feel Bad About My Neck), mostly because the essays tended to be shorter, a bit more random, and honestly not as well-written. I recall it starting out fairly strongly, and I was definitely into it for a bit. But in the end, I think my favorite part was how short it was. My biggest problem really […]



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