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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. Fun, slightly weird quarter-life crisis book. (  ) ccavaleri | Nov 12, 2009 |  If you measure a book by its ability to make you feel strong emotions towards a character, than this would be a winner. It invoked a great deal of emotion in me. I wasn’t a fan of Julie Powell. I don’t know her, but the parts of her that she shared publically in the book, aren’t her best (I have to give her credit for that, at least). She’s a little harsh, a, little too egocentric, emotional, melodramatic (by her own accord – p. 106) and just plain mean (to her parents, brother, husband, friends, September 11 survivors, well everyone). When she let the cat out of the bag on a family secret, to try and make her emotionally stable brother babble like a six year old, I realized I had a choice and could put this one down. So that’s what I did. Bummer. traciragas | Nov 11, 2009 | I loved this little book about Julie's year of attempting to work through Julia Child's cookbook and blogging about her experiences and the recipes. Easy to read, casual, funny. I really enjoyed this book and can't wait to see the movie! (  ) lildrafire | Nov 8, 2009 | Librarything told me I would like this, but let me tell you, I did not! Wow! What a letdown. I generally like memoirs and I love food, so I thought I couldn't go wrong here, but this didn't work for me at all. I actually fell asleep twice while reading this. Insomniacs take note - here is your cure! I don't feel like I'm being unduly harsh here either either. I should point out that I read an uncorrected proof version of this book, so perhaps the prose in the finished product was more polished than in my copy. I certainly hope so. The writing style here was not at all engaging. The recipes didn't interest me in the slightest - I felt the cooking descriptions for the most part stomach churning. I guess I should point out that I don't eat meat, but I reckon even the biggest carnivore would have felt slightly queasy at the lengthy descriptions of bone marrow, liver, kidneys etc. Yuck! I guess I also pretty much disliked Powell herself too. She doesn't come across at all well in this book. Certainly not my kind of person. On more than one occasion she attempts to make light of 9/11 and just seems to have an unpleasant demeanor overall. I felt mostly sorry for her husband. The guy had a lot to put up with! I'm still going to watch the movie. The trailer looks like fun, and it couldn't be any worse than this, at least! (  ) Sukisue7 | Nov 7, 2009 | Oh man, this was painful. Not that it was badly written because it wasn't really. And at first, she's kind of funny in a self-deprecating sort of way...and then the more she talks about herself, the more I was put off. She complains..about 9/11 victims? About a very nice husband? About republicans, nonstop? Encourages a friend to have an affair with a married man? What kind of person IS this? Just left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Gross. Julia Child was right, it was disrespectful, and impossible to take seriously. (  )1  maryjanemanolos | Nov 7, 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.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 031610969X, Hardcover)Julie & Julia is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalizeher marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, VolumeI, in a period of 365 days.The result is a masterful medley of BridgetJones' Diary meets Like Water for Chocolate, mixed with a healthy dose oforiginal wit, warmth, and inspiration that sets this memoir apart from mosttales of personal redemption.When we first meet Julie, she's a frustrated temp-to-perm secretary whoslaves away at a thankless job, only to return to an equally demoralizingapartment in the outer boroughs of Manhattan each evening. At the urging ofEric, her devoted and slightly geeky husband, she decides to start a blogthat will chronicle what she dubs the "Julie/Julia Project." What follows isa year of butter-drenched meals that will both necessitate the wearing of anunbearably uncomfortable girdle on the hottest night of the year, as well asthe realization that life is what you make of it and joy is not asimpossible a quest as it may seem, even when it's -10 degrees out and yourpipes are frozen.Powell is a natural when it comes to connecting with her readers, which isprobably why her blog generated so much buzz, both from readers and mediaalike. And while her self-deprecating sense of humor can sometimes dissolveinto whininess, she never really loses her edge, or her sense of purpose.Even on day 365, she's working her way through Mayonnaise Collee and endingthe evening "back exactly where we started--just Eric and me, three cats andBuffy...sitting on a couch in the outer boroughs, eating, with Juliachortling alongside us...."Inspired and encouraging, Julie and Julia is a unique opportunity tojoin one woman's attempt to change her life, and have a laugh, or ten, alongthe way. --Gisele Toueg(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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