Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

6 reviews

cavacados's review against another edition

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emotional funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I love Nora Ephron movies, and this felt like I was living inside the head of one of her characters. Rachel is funny and sharp. I could actually hear her voice in my head it was so strong. The end was more tender and sad than I expected it to be. It was a nice contrast from the rest of the fast-paced anecdotes in the book. I liked the framing device of her speaking right to her audience through one of her cookbooks. 
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rosalux's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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mburdi's review against another edition

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dark funny reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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skeltzer's review against another edition

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funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I realized halfway through that this is the comedy cousin to The Year of Magical Thinking. This is a very upper middle class story with associated humor and puchlines (everyone has a maid; everyone sleeping with everyone else) with dated references and cringeworthy passages (peep the content warnings). I do like the recipes sprinkled through.
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tracikennedy25's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

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revafisheye's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

A few weeks ago, I watched the HBO doc "Everything Is Copy," made by Nora Ephron's son and featuring so many of her famous friends, singing her praises -- mostly. So here I am, surprised that this is my first time reading Nora Ephron after a lifetime of watching her movies. Turns out, her voice was one that I knew very well.

This book feels like time capsule of 1980s pop culture tropes: an autobiographical rich -- but not too rich -- New York professional woman is "trying to have it all." What she gets instead is
a  philandering journalist husband, an analyst who takes sides with her husband, and encounters with the cuckolded politico husband of the other woman.
And she gives the reader self-deprecating humor, recipes, and thinly veiled fatphobia (yes, I did that) and light '80s racism. The audiobook is narrated by Meryl Streep, which makes it mostly go down easy. 

I'm no scholar an on the genre, but did THIS book mark the birth of chick lit? I imagine NOT growing up on a diet of these stories might have made this one seem fresh and revelatory, but after 40 years of Sallys and Carries and Bridgets and Julies, this character (I've already forgotten) and her story seem stale and, to her great pleasure I'm sure, thin.
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