But I just finished Julie & Julia and I kind of need to talk about it. The book is based on Julie Powell's Julie/Julia Project. A blog chronicling her desire to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. I in one year. First, let me chronicle all the reasons why I really wanted to like this book. 1. I love blogs, particularly personal ones as evidenced by both this endeavor and my obsessive checking of everything from my baby nephew's blog, to dooce, to postsecret and everything in between. 2. I love crazy long term projects! Case in point, my desire to read the top 100 novels and reading A.J. Jacobs' The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.
That being said, here is my issue:
The book just didn't come together for me. It felt like she was riding the wave of blogger books, and honestly, I just started reading back entries of the blog, and they are much more heartfelt and amusing than the book. I heard about the project and loved the concept, I love irreverent, sarcastic and empowered women's voices and I love cooking. I had assumed (and you know what they say about assuming...) that the book would be more of an edited version of the blog, with more day to day action. What the book delivered was so close, but never got there. Needless to say, I was disappointed, I certainly respect her, and her project, and salute her success but will take my light memoir needs elsewhere in the future.
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