Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell Julie & Julia tells Julie Powell's year long adventure story cooking every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking . It follows the ups and (mostly) downs of this venture while Powell tells her blog readers about her experience. Powell is a secretary adrift in her 29th year, feeling that she has not really done anything to show for her life, other than marrying a man who supports her no matter what she does. The blog and cooking project is, for Powell, a way to revitalize her life. The prose is very funny, with Powell refusing to sugar coat the fact that she is self-absorbed, selfish at times, and prone to crying fits on the kitchen floor. She never glosses over her failures or her shortcuts, and takes us through the ways she navigates relationships with her husband, mother, and friends along the journey. It's not pretty! This was a fun companion piece to the film, though written before, obviously. It is different