Friday Books - Heartburn

Hello there.

It's Friday, so it's time to hook up with other book admirers and share excerpts from the books around us. We join Book Beginnings, hosted by Rose City Reader, where you share the first line, and  a few thoughts about the book.

I'm reading Heartburn by Nora Ephron this week. I picked it up because I saw the Audible version was narrated by Meryl Streep, and was fascinated to listen, but now I'm into a library copy, so don't even know if I'll get to the Audible version.

"Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. HEARTBURN is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and - most satisfyingly - revenge."

That's why she can't date - seven months into her pregnancy - I suppose she could, but would she? Would you?

So far I'm enjoying it. It's light, and easy to read, which makes a change from some of the tomes I've ploughed through recently.

At Freda's Voice, you'll find the Friday56, where the excerpt comes from page 56 or 56% in your Kindle.

"This is Nora Ephron's (screenwriter of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE) roman a clef: 'I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,' she once said - And it is!"

I'm not quite at p56 - but nearly. Hopefully I finish this weekend...

I've got a busy day ahead - so I'm probably only going to get to your lovely blogs much later. But I'll visit, I promise. Tell me what you're reading, I'd love to know.

Enjoy - and have a fabulous weekend.