 The book I love is Heartburn by Nora Ephron. I'm Michelle Jeffers. I realize I've had this book now for 30 years. I was just graduating from college, 1984, that makes you figure out how old I am. It's written by a former journalist who went on to become a novelist. It was exactly the kind of life path I wanted to lead, and I had read her essays from being a journalist. If you don't know it, it's a Romana Clef about Nora Ephron and her first marriage to Carl Bernstein, and she was pregnant at the time that her husband left her, was having an affair with someone else and left her. It's the funniest book I've ever read. I reread it every couple of years. I take something away from it every time I read it. I find it very powerful. It's a lot about friendships, the people who stick with you through thick and thin, you know, the joy that your children bring to you, and also a little bit of revenge. Her telling of the story is so wonderful and warm and witty that it makes you realize that there's always greener pastors out there on the other side. And right then I was, of course, starting a new life, graduating from college, and, you know, seeing how splendid the written word could be. The other part that I love about this book is it's a book with recipes, something I'd never seen before, a novel with recipes, and I have to say that my kids still enjoy the pot roast in this book. I still make that pot roast every couple of weeks. It's about love, and it's very much about how much she loved her family at the time, but it's also about, you know, being in love with yourself too, making sure you show some self-love and get out of a bad situation when you need to. Also, you know, of course, Nora Ephron went on to have an amazing career as a movie director and producer, so this was just the start of that. Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson were in the movie version of this, and it was kind of horrible, but the book is fabulous.