Julie and Julia

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• Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen By Julie Powell

  The book that inspired the hit film! Talk about bucking the trends. Cookbooks, TV shows and glossy magazines are overflowing with simple recipes for busy professionals lacking the time and desire to serve up elaborate meals after a tough workday. And ... (read full critics)

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  One of the dumbest things I've ever read.

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  Deanna Kyre said on Apr 17, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  This book is an easy, mindless read. A little too "chick-litty", which I can't appreciate. This book is just full of negative energy, which I would pick up and project into my own life as I read it. Ugh.

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  oldladyofchertsey said on Mar 17, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Well, not much of a great book. A memoir which aims at being witty and humorous but rarely if ever manages to.
  Why do all and sundry want to become food experts all of a sudden is a thick mistery which better informed people than I will unravel. It must be a sort of a nation wide epidemic. Hope it' ... (continue)

  Well, not much of a great book. A memoir which aims at being witty and humorous but rarely if ever manages to.
  Why do all and sundry want to become food experts all of a sudden is a thick mistery which better informed people than I will unravel. It must be a sort of a nation wide epidemic. Hope it's not infectious.
  I've read worse books though. Good language practice anyway.

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  Maria Teresa Ciaffaroni said on Jan 29, 2010 | 2 feedbacks

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  It's gonna be my obsession. Ops, not, I'm sorry: it's my obsession already.

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  Julia (ｼﾞｭﾘｱ) ~ ♣ said on Oct 10, 2011 | Add your feedback

• Dress your family in butter and oil

  A really entertaining tale about a stubborn secretary slash proto-blogger slash sassy person making its way out of life's difficulties.

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  Samoo said on Oct 15, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  This book is Julie Powell's memoir about her "Julie/Julia" cooking project. Julie was an unhappy person with a dead-end job, and in order to find her way, she cooked through Julia Child's famed recipe book "Masting the Art of French Cooking" in a year. Unexpectedly, this project changed her life. ... (continue)

  This book is Julie Powell's memoir about her "Julie/Julia" cooking project. Julie was an unhappy person with a dead-end job, and in order to find her way, she cooked through Julia Child's famed recipe book "Masting the Art of French Cooking" in a year. Unexpectedly, this project changed her life.

  This book drew my attention because of a sentence in the movie trailer Julie & Julia - "I was drawning and she (Julia Child) is the one that pulled me out of the ocean." I was very curious and decided to read through the book, hoping to find the secret recipe of life.

  Unfortunately I didn't find it. While this is a very good topic and the book could have been a masterpiece about food and life, it is actually not very well done. Although Julie keeps saying Julia Child's book changed her life, she could not really explain why, other than the fact that the press noticed her blog and made her a famous writer.

  That said, this is an entertaining chick lit, and is a good beach read (if you don't mind foul language and strong political opinion, which I don't). Julie is quite honest and likable. Therefore I actually enjoyed this book.

  Unfortunately, I could not find deeper meaning behind it. This is only a beach read after all.

  (中文感想在這裡: 美味關係 Julie & Julia http://materialgl.blogspot.com/2009/12/julie-julia.html…

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  material girl said on Jun 23, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• Others 320 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141043989
• ISBN-13: 9780141043982
• Pub date: Aug 06, 2009
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and eBook

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