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Loading... Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchenby Julie Powell
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  peaseblossom67 | Nov 22, 2009 |  2007 (  ) katiemertz | Nov 20, 2009 | This is such an odd premise for a book - Julie Powell sets herself a challenge to cook everything from a cookbook of Julia Child's within a year. And yet it somehow works. Woven in between the culinary descriptions, Julie describes the comes and goings of her life, her partner and her job. It does get a tad repetitve - there's only so many times you can reiterate that mayonnaise is hard to cook. She also comes across as slightly hysterical and has a few too many temper tantrums to be a wholly likeable person. The ending is slightly anti-climatic, but you do feel for her in the end. Worth reading, but borrow it - don't buy it. (  ) generalkala | Nov 19, 2009 | Yes, everybody has read this one, but I include it because I have a particular fondness for diaries, journals, and yes blogs. Julies' story is our story: how does one structure one's life after tragedy, how does one go on? You do the next thing that needs to be done, then the next, and one day you find you are breathing again on your own, you will indeed live. jre503 | Nov 17, 2009 | cooking ghlibrary | Nov 17, 2009 | 
 Although I don’t really believe that Julie Powell finds a Julia Child-like satisfaction in the art of cooking, her bloggy memoir offers the pleasures of witnessing a thoroughly grumpy, foul-mouthed New Yorker go through a laughable late-twenties identity crisis, discover the erotic allure of good food, and tell terrible gossip about all her best friends. More than her descriptions of (badly) attempting Julia Child’s recipes or even discovering a new career, Powell’s passages evoking the sensual delights of food connect Julie & Julia to the vivid memories in My Life in France.
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I found the book laugh-out-loud funny. Julie puts herself out there and her voice comes through loud and clear and funny. Even without the sincerity of her own voice, she had me in the first chapter when she confessed her love for Buffy.
I don't think this book is really intended for "foodies." Frankly, I'm not inspired to cook calf brains. The story is about Julie's journey through a tough year in her life; she is supported by friends, family, and most of all, her husband, but it is the Julie/Julia Project that prods her to keep going through thick and thin.
I, for one, am looking forward to the next installment. (