Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”Īnd she made me laugh, out loud at times, which is always the acid test of a funny book. Because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much.
Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. “Vera said: ‘Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?’ She congratulates herself in the introduction written years later for having written a funny book about an event that was extremely painful and in the book she explains why she wrote it: (I’ve selected quotes below that provide evidence for my assertion.)įor Ephron “everything is copy.” She learnt this from her mother, and her son made a film about his mother’s life with the title Everything is Copy. Although it’s light it’s also lightly heavy: Ephron makes astute, even profound, observations about women, men, love, marriage, and adultery. I selected Heartburn, Nora Ephron’s funny book about the break up of her second marriage. After reading Crime and Punishment and J M Coetzee’s intense meditation on Dostoevsky, I felt the need for something lighter-and I selected well, led by an unknown friend on Goodreads, a social network for readers.
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