Journal Entry 1 by arugh48187 from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Wednesday, January 06, 2010

I bought this one from my local USB as a must read RIGHT NOW purchase. Six months later....I finally get around to reading it.

Synopsis
With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul.

Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a tiny apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's worn, dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes -- in the span of one year.

At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye.

And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her outer-borough kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance. 

Journal Entry 2 by arugh48187 from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Sunday, January 17, 2010

This book was a bit of a disappointment. I was expecting more of cooking and less of the Bridget Jones thing. Julie was a bit morose and whiny, and there was very little of Julia. Suprisingly enough the movie was better than the book. Hope the next reader enjoys more than I did. 

Journal Entry 3 by arugh48187 at Life Time Fitness in Eagan, Minnesota USA on Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (2/12/2010 UTC) at Life Time Fitness in Eagan, Minnesota USA

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Left on the bookshelf in the kid's center.