Book Report #108 - Julie & Julia

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

Who can resist a movie trailer with Amy Adams flailing around in the kitchen and Meryl Streep playing a delightful Julia Child? I can't wait for it to hit the theaters so I picked up the book at Target.

Julie, a 29 year-old resident of Long Island City, decides to do all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering The Art of French Cooking. This is a true story. She's not sure her marriage will survive it.

Sometimes it was trying reading about her crummy apartment that was always filthy and wading through her talking herself down all the time and having conniptions but overall I really enjoyed it. It was laugh-out-loud funny and difficult to put down. Plus, I learned a lot about cooking and enjoyed living vicariously through her evisceration of various animals as I'm sure I'll never have the courage to do it myself.

General consensus: I'm passing it on to a friend and I still can't wait for the movie.