Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Julie & Julia
I'm reading this nonfiction book by Julie Powell, and I'm not loving it. It is about her experience of cooking her way through the Julia Child classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one recipe at a time. Don, I know exactly why you didn't care for it. It's another thirtysomething blathering on about her life as if everything she says or does is memoir-worthy. And call me stuffy, but I just don't see the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge, or September 11th as being joke material. It really isn't a food book whatsoever. In fact, after coming off Slater's beautiful and rich Kitchen Diaries, it couldn't be less a food book. It's more like Bridget Jones's Diary with pots and pans. Anyone else read it and have a different take? I know it's going to be a movie with Amy Adams as Julie Powell and Meryl Streep as Julia Child.
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I talk and talk and no one listens.
(sigh)
^^LOL, well, I'm listening. Definitely not on my reading list after two people whose opinions I greatly value have slammed it.
Which books get made into movies and which don't seem more and more random.
~Lisa
She jokes about what? I'm all for finding the humor in life, but anyone with half a brain cell knows there are some things you don't make light of. And in a supposed food book? What the wiggity wiggity whack is wrong with her?
Don, your posts on thirtier-than-thous are gold. I sort of want to put them on a litter and carry them around.
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