Review: Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

[ardweden]

Powell, Julie. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. 2005.

I finally finished a book! GO ME. For the record, it's not Julie and Julia's fault that this took so long. It's my thesis, my engagement, my job, my other hobbies, and essentially my life's fault. (I actually also read the fourth Harry Potter book and attempted the fifth,

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[aperfectsong]

One, hello there! Are you back to LJ?

Second, I watched the movie Julie & Julia twice and really enjoyed it. I bet the book was amazing. It seemed like they were reading her blog entries aloud at times and I enjoyed her writing style. I may check this out if I can find it at the library. The cool thing about the movie is that it also tells the story of Julia Child. I'm not sure if the book does. But it was funny and really good.

[ardweden]

I'm around! Terrible at updating lj, though. The sad thing is that the busier my life gets and the more I should be reporting, the less I do because I'm SO BUSY. Suffice to say that I'm alive and excessively busy, and I'll probably put up a general life post at some point in the near future.

The book does follow Julia Child's life, to a small extent. Powell wrote a few scenes - usually at the beginning of chapters - starring Julia (she admits that they're half made up, gleaned from Julia's letters, how she behaves on TV, and so on), and she talks a bit about her life periodically. But yeah, it's mostly about Julie, not Julia; you'd kind of expect that, though, being a memoir and not a biography.

The movie sounds fun. :) Maybe I'll get around to it... I'm just terrible at actually watching movies. And you should probably pick up the book! I think you'd like it.