Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

I have been thinking about Nora Ephron ever since I saw her on an interview program, and then when she died. The relation of telling all, so to speak, and hiding one's deepest worries is a study and I am in the midst of it. As to this collection I like it. The style is both run on, one's top thoughts, and then a dip into the hidden feelings--all told with a careful choice of language and a sense of humor which carries her forth in times of distress in her life. I think her judgment of politicians and news reporters is refreshingly accurate, and I wish she could find more to admire--like Russell Baker, for instance. On the other hand, the news business or the press state of mind got a going over for its own good and I for one, am very glad of that. Nora Ephron enjoys her contempt for her fellow journalists, and at the same time feels important being one of them. Its a hard road to travel. Her circle of friends and associates did not include the large portion of the 98% and I wish it had. I learned from the philosophy Aesthetic Realism that one has to really like the world in order to want to fully express oneself in it or to it, and I wish Nora Ephron had been able to learn that, or feel that. She delighted many people with her perceptions, and I wish there could have even been more.

Ephron can capture the highs and lows of womanhood and make us laugh about them, whether they are magnificent mountaintops or lugubrious lows. She takes any situation and gives it a fresh perspective to make it funny. I dearly love this woman's writing. I've read several of her books since I got my Kindle (thanks, daughter and son-in-law for the Christmas gift a couple of years ago), and I chuckle,laugh, bellow, hee-haw, giggle and otherwise make a fool of myself in public. Yes, I read it in restaurants, waiting in line to get a cafeteria tray, sitting in medical waiting rooms, in bed before falling asleep, even in the car at stop lights (oh, stop honking!). I'm an obsessive, compulsive, omnivorous, read-all-the-time addict since I was a wee little girl.

Witty, perspicacious, charming. Ephron delights with essays/columns on the volatile and turbulent 70s era. Her caustic wry humor is wonderfully entertaining. To me a brilliant and sharp intellect, my kind of journalist. Particularly moved by the Bob Haldeman and CBS essay so like today’s White House!

I love Nora and have read most of her books, etal. I gave it one extra star because it was Nora. Some of the stories just didn't read well for me, but the ones that did, made it worth reading. She's no longer here, and that's the saddest part of all.

This particular book took me right back to the 70's (which is when these articles were written) and provided me with information and insight I wish I had had then. Best of all is the writing itself, which tells about the times with wit and intelligence.

Enjoyed the review of women in history as well as the essays about certain moments in time with the humor

This book is a re-release of old material which can be somewhat dated. It is interesting though to see which opinion pieces still ring true in this 21st century. If you are an Ephron fan, it will be an important addition to your collection.

Since I'm in my sixties, I can remember the times and events these articles were written about. I can not imagine what readers in their twenties and thirties would make of these bulletins from the front lines of women's liberation, civil rights, Viet Nam and Nixon's resignation (let alone Watergate). I recommend her more recent works like "I Feel Bad About My Neck" and "I Remember Nothing", but, of course, since I'm old I can relate to those essays. Mostly, these essays and articles are for the Ephron fanatic.

This is a set of essays first published in various USA mags and newspapers dating from sixties to seventies. They are very amusing and informative about American politics of the period. Feminist ideas probably more generally interesting to women readers.

She's a good writer but much of the content and the people she writes about is OOD now as the book is old.

Best known for "that line" in When Harry Met Sally, Ephron is the intelligent forerunner of Carrie Bradshaw. Light subjects, serious subjects, all dealt with thought and humour. A chapter or column at a time provides a feast of food for thought.

I'm using it as a dip-into book as it consists of numerous articles. So far, excellent. Nora Ephron is an accomplished writer and doesn't waffle. As she explains somewhere in a piece about working as a journalist, she learned most of her trade by experience.

Regret only started reading her books after her death and reading her obituary. Have most of them now and find them funny,real and interesting.