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  <title><![CDATA[Heartburn]]></title>
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  <default_description>Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage?  If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes.  For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of &lt;i&gt;Sleepless in Seattle&lt;/i&gt; reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman.  The fact that the other woman has &quot;a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs&quot; is no consolation.  Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living.  And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wiching him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes.  &lt;i&gt;Heartburn &lt;/i&gt;is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect souffl&#233;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1983</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nora Ephron]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heartburn was a book about a relationship that happens to go wrong. This book didn't seem that interesting at first since it was in really small font and was hard to get into. It was hard to understand the story unless you concentrate and had patience with it. Overall this book had some humor into i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77850518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nora Ephron's new movie, 'Julie and Julia,' rode into its nationwide opening last weekend on a such a wave of publicity I'm almost too tired of all the Ephronmania to mention anything about her here. But I just read 'Heartburn' and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. I liked it so much tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67170241">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[By now we all know this is about Ephron's divorce from Carl Bernstein (whom I met once at San Francisco State University: she does not mention that he has terrible skin, but it's the only thing she doesn't mention). <br/><br/>I don't know. It's like there isn't enough story here so she has to fill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57038196">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many features about the movie &quot;Julie and Julia&quot; make reference to director Nora Ephron's landmark 1983 novel that combined recipes with a plotline.  Perhaps it was for this reason that my expectations were raised too high.  Sure, the story is compelling, but Ephron's Rachel can be a whiner...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67375773">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 09 13:31:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just felt like laughing, so picked this book up to visit with again.  Fave quote: &quot; Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn, and I'll show you a real asshole.&quot;  <br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="6731487">
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  <read_at>Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intersting work of fiction that is loosely based on Ephron's life. The same sharp wit you see in her non-fiction is present here. Funny stuff.]]></body>
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    <review id="66155315">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[8/5/09 - I'd give this 4.5 stars if I could, but I don't love it enough for 5.  I also couldn't separate Mark from Carl.  Also interesting - Mark Feldman - Ephron knew who Deep Throat was &amp; always told everyone it was Mark Felt (I guess nobody really listened to her).  It's definitely an interesting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66155315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2596441">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good story, Fabulous receipes!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Heartburn was an unwanted reminder of how awful the 1980s must have been. Ephron repeatedly dismisses and trivializes feminism, even as her protagonist (a thinly-disguised version of herself) blithely benefits from the hard-fought feminist achievements of no-fault divorce law and shared hous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71982510">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Inspired by an interesting* review of Nora Ephron in the New Yorker, I picked up this book -- which is a fictionalized account of an awful period in her life.  When Ephron was seven months pregnant with her second child, she discovered that her husband, Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame, was having a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66257239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16367199">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first foray into the &quot;Chick Lit&quot; genre.  I have long been indifferent to its charms, but when I moved to Texas, my books were in storage and this book's... pinkness... beckoned from my mother's bookshelf.<br/><br/>I didn't expect to enjoy it overly much, despite the fact that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16367199">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[	This is one of the books I decided I might like to read after reading ‘The Reading Group’. And, I needed to read a different kind of book after ‘Natasha’s Dance’. It was a fast, fun book to read and it’s full of recipes I’m going to try.<br/>	It’s the story of the perfect couple, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8634252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really very good.  It's about a pregnant cookbook author that discovers her husband is having an affair.  Not only that but he loves the lady and thinks he should have a relationship with both of them.  The main lady just because of the kids, and the other lady because he loves her.  E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24713647">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the books that I read backwards. It had looked interesting, a book about revenge.  Oh yeah.   I made it about 10 pages in and wasn't really enjoying the book, so I read the last ten pages.  They were okay so I read three more pages in the front but still wasn't hooked.  But I wanted t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39909933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69080741">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was only okay. it was a quick read but i think i had high expectations for it because it was written by Nora Ephron. this woman's husband cheats on her when she is seven months pregnant and the whole book is about infidelity. she writes from a perspective of being cheated on in two marriag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69080741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48383206">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was superb chick-lit.  It's probably not even so much chick-lit as autobiography.  Most of this is the true story of how her second husband (Carl Bernstein, of Woodward &amp; Bernstein) cheated on her while she was pregnant with their second child.  It's extremely funny and a short read. Now to che...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48383206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[hilarious yet honest, will make you laugh and sigh a little with sadness sometimes too. It will also make you hungry as she talks about food a lot and gives delicious although suspiciously simple sounding recipes. (I have a hard time believing key lime pie is a cinch to make.) In short : definitely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72971412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A hardcover version of this book turned up in our recycling center so I've finally read this very funny book. Highly recommended for Ephron's New York style humor. I didn't want to read it too quickly. So good to read a book that made me laugh out loud over and over again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up after reading a review of Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories in the London Review of Books.  The reviewer suggested that some of Moore's early stories could be taken as a prototype of later Chick-Lit.  (I know -- she also makes a dismissive swipe at Joan Didion, so I was already miffe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24619927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie about 20 yrs. ago (yes, I'm old!) and wanted to read the book.  Nora Ephron is a witty writer that kept me laughing throughout the entire book ... she also gives some great recipes.  Now I want to see the movie again ... l'm a big Meryl Streep fan!]]></body>
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