Heartburn

Title: Heartburn

Author: Nora Ephron

Genre: Humor

Time: 3.5 hours

2015 Book Challenge: a book that came out the year you were born

Took a while to find a book for this challenge coz it’s hard to find books published more than 30 years ago floating around these days.  I think this was reprinted, so I guessed it means this book is so good that it stood the test of time.

 

This book is of those cooking novels where there are recipes included in the book.  Not really into these as I’m quite useless in the kitchen.  Although, a few years, ago I was hooked on Diane Mott Davidson’s books but I think it was more for the mystery rather than the cooking angle.

 

The story wasn’t really action packed, meaning not much really happened in the book.  She basically found out her husband cheated on her (while 7 months preggo) so she flew to New York but decided to give it one more try but then decided it was not worth it and left for good.  The rest of the book is filled with anecdotes, some not really related to the major story arc and the rest background stories for the recipes the narrator shared.  It felt like the book was more about the recipes and anecdotes than the major story arc.  The characters were very one dimensional to me.

 

Maybe it has something to do with how the story was written.  It was going for the character being your “bestie” talking to you (the reader) about what she’s going through when it used the first person narrative.  First person narratives aren’t really my thing.  This was a “meh” book for me.