Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously | 
pickI loved the hell out of this book. It captures everything I feel about food and cooking. Food can be such a sexy thing. Preparing it. Cooking it. Eating it. When it‘s good; It‘s a religious experience. I liked the language and the rawness. It‘s a winner for me.
I finally watched this movie... I know I'm late to the game... but omg I loved it. Now, I must get my hands on the book because the book is always better!
pickIt takes skill and craft to be able to write the intimate details of your life for others to read (especially when it‘s an average kind of life you live) while managing to find an overarching message that others can grow and learn from, but Julie Powell did. Cooking her way through Julia Child‘s Mastering the Art of French Cooking (524 recipes in 365 days) and blogging it, she shares a journey peppered with profanity, humor and self-deprecation.
Ten years later - this movie really holds up and is delightful. Also ten years later, I now have a cat that looks like Julie‘s cat.
pickI loved this so much! Such a fun little read, and I was pleased to realize that there‘s (some) actual depth to Julie‘s story beyond a comical narration of her kitchen mishaps during her self-imposed cooking challenge.
Oh and, the movie is adorable as well. 🤓
pickI missed this one when it was new. I missed it when it was adapted for film — with Meryl Streep, no less. Then I put up that Julia Child quote while I was cooking dinner one night and a friend of mine said “Say, did you ever happen to read/see Julie and Julia...”. I‘m glad she did, because I had a lot of fun with this. It‘s funny and irreverent and disgusting and relatable. Hooray random book recs!
Why have I been living under a rock?!! I didn't even know this movie existed. Just watched it on Netflix and I found it so heart warming and didn't want it to end.😖
Also I Googled online and found that it was actually a book first...WHAT!
NEED TO FIND THIS BOOK!!!
Love love love this still from Julie & Julia 💖 #julieandjulia #juliachild #juliepowell #amazingbookstores #shakespeareandcompany #booksbrewsandbooze
so-soI enjoyed this book because I found myself relating to the main character who is almost 30 and wasn't sure what she was doing with her life decided to give cooking a try and loves food. Full review is on my goodreads :)
"I have never looked to religion for comfort—belief is just not in my genes. But reading Mastering the Art of French Cooking—childishly simple and dauntingly complex, incantatory and comforting—I thought this was what prayer must feel like."
Only on the first chapter and I am already feeling this will be terrible. This is just one example of the ridiculous writing, so far. Also, mental illness slurs have already been covered. So, great start!
panThis book has EVERYTHING: Slurs against mental illness, disparaging terms for folks with disabilities, fatphobia... hard pass, thanks. Just... wow.
📚 Julie and Julia
🙍🏼♀️ Julie Mulhern
📺 The Jetson‘s!!
🍇 Jelly - why is the food always the hardest question?
#manicmonday #letterj
pickThis #memoir was a great listen—I‘d seen the movie and enjoyed it (I have to admit that I *much* preferred the Julia part of the narrative, so the book—focused on Julie—was a nice surprise).
pickA cute movie and a cute book! It makes me want to take up a similar challenge, though I never have.
🍒1) Tagged Book (also a good movie!)
🍒2) Butter? Watermelon? Sour cream?
🍒3) Cilantro 🤢
🍒4) Thanksgiving
🍒5) Voyager (Ferndale), Zingerman‘s Deli
(Ann Arbor), Sister Pie (Detroit)
#MittenLitten #ManicMonday
so-soI love this movie but didn‘t really love the book....
Day 11 Punctuation. Ampersand is my favorite! #riotgrams
Pic 1: The books. I have wanted to read some of these for the longest time!!!! Especially the tagged book 🤗 Creepy and killers and Julia!! #pumped
@TheLudicReader
#secretsantagoespostal
#wintersolsticebookexchange
So Julia Childs just got even cooler in my book!
Julia Child's legs. Photo by her husband. ♡♡♡
I watched this movie yesterday and it put me in a baking mood. So, I made a berry galette for my hubby. I would love to cook my way through her book like Julie does.
pickSuch a fun read! I literally laughed out loud multiple times while reading...perfect remedy for surviving a semi-insane work week (a food show one at that). And seriously, how many books have both a Jane Austen reference AND a reference to "the prematurely canceled Joss Whedon outer space-western series"?!
"We none of us knew for sure what kind we were, exactly, but as long as we were the kind that could sit around eating together and having a lovely time, that was enough."
Finally getting some reading in this week!
"The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not the same as "easy.""(Day 1, Recipe 1)
"After you look at that every day for a couple of months, you just get used to it. You can get used to anything, as long as you don't mind collapsing a few mineshafts of your brain where the stuff you can't think about is skulking around. It's easy – not simple, maybe, but easy." (Day 36, Recipe 48)
Guys! I did it! 24 hours of reading in 48 hours!
I finished 5 books, over 1180 pages and 6 hours of audio books...😂 #24in48 #readathon
So i decided this book will be my laundry chore read.. definitely thought it would be more about her cooking trials and error then I have gotten so far. And I'm about half way threw. So I don't dnf or feel guilty I'll read it when I'm doing laundry hiding down my basement..might take me a while to finish but this works for me
So I gave decided after I bailed on what was lost that I would read this one.. ok so I have LOL'd quite s but already.. I mean who couldn't laugh at the sentence I could make my first millions selling dirty sex steaks..
bailedI really wanted to like this but a third of the way in I'm just not interested so I'm going to leave it there. I really wanted to enjoy it!
pickI love this book. I just re-read it for the third time and I feel like I love it even more. Yes, Julie is self absorbed and histrionic, but so am I at times. And I always get inspired to cook, especially from my copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which I wouldn't own without reading Julie and Julia first.
Next up to read!! I loved this movie!
bailedI wanted to like this book, I really did. I watched the movie years ago with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, and just got my hands on the book a few weeks ago. I'm not one to let the movie influence how I feel about a book (I usually read the book first), but this one was severely disappointing. It was mostly her griping about her life in a government job and her husband. I was so hoping to get more of an insight on her cooking and blogging. Oh, well!
pickI quite enjoyed listening to this audio book. I like that it was read by the author. I like the authenticity, Powell wasn't afraid to talk about what went wrong which I find refreshing in this era of facebook, instagram, etc. As much as I enjoyed the book I felt that it was missing the insights into Julia Child's life that the movie gave.
Finishing up my audio book whilst cooking dinner. Quite an appropriate choice of activity given the book.
Started my latest audio book yesterday. I'm really enjoy it so far and I love that it is read by the author. I love the movie hopefully the book doesn't disappoint.
So I just finished reading this book. Needless to say, it does not fit my normal genre of book...however, I found it witty, interesting, a tad repetitive at times to say the least but also surprisingly inspiring. Julie is raw which can be hard to find in some memoirs which tend to gloss over more of the rough times in their lives. I would recommend this read to anyone who wants a little laughter, honesty, and even a little excitement in their life
#riotgames
Although my name is not exotic, I don't often come across it in books or find an other with the same name.
This book by Julie Powell carries my given name and one of my "pet names".
My favorite movie adaptation for #FunPhotoFriday comes from my favorite class in college.
My women's lit class was called "Women, Life Writing, and Food," and we read both these books at about the time the movie was being filmed. I liked Powell's memoir much more than Julia Child's "My Life In France," and if I'm honest, really didn't care for Child's self-aggrandizing at all. But in the movie, as usual, Meryl is perfect.
When I first tried to read this book, I hated it because I was fed misinformation about it. I assumed it ended in a tragic blow up between Julie and her husband, but instead it was a funny read about her journey (and failures) in cooking. I love a good book that will make me laugh out.
bailedThis book starts amazingly... A beautiful premise, funny writing, and very relatable considering I'm a very life-confused 30 year old woman.
But soon after that it becomes unreadable, I just couldn't follow her train of thoughs. Hectic and confusing, with shady points at the end of each paragraph.
I read a quarter of the book and bailed... Life is too short to read books that you don't like.
Oh, I'm gonna love this book. ❤
He meant that sometimes you get a glimpse into a life that you never thought of before. There are hidden trap doors all over the place, and suddenly you see one, and the next thing you know you're flogging grateful businessmen or chopping lobsters in half, and the world's just so much bigger than you thought it was.
I had to go to my Goodreads shelves for today's photo. Nonfiction definitely wins when it comes to wordy titles!
#longtitles #Booktober #nonfiction
