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I've been working on this book for a while. It was in a list of summer reads that I picked up at the Arlington main branch library. So far, it hasn't let me down.
I thought that this book would be fun to read because I very much enjoyed Julie and Julia. I thought it would make a nice companion book, and it did. I think they would be good in either order. I think that both books show Julia Child as being totally fascinated with food and just a bit crazy. I love the way Child writes about food, her friends, and her experience of France. It's a great book of place. It didn't change my life, but it was really engrossing and made me hungry many times. Four stars.
I have to say that I enjoy the feeling of being on a nonfiction kick. It makes me feel sophisticated and grown-up to be reading it. Also, the fact that I've read 96 books so far this year and it's only August? Awesome.
Next up on the nonfiction list: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed. (Interestingly, last night I had a dream about entheogens. In the dream they were very spiritually significant. I say "interestingly" because I've never actually used entheogens.)
I thought that this book would be fun to read because I very much enjoyed Julie and Julia. I thought it would make a nice companion book, and it did. I think they would be good in either order. I think that both books show Julia Child as being totally fascinated with food and just a bit crazy. I love the way Child writes about food, her friends, and her experience of France. It's a great book of place. It didn't change my life, but it was really engrossing and made me hungry many times. Four stars.
I have to say that I enjoy the feeling of being on a nonfiction kick. It makes me feel sophisticated and grown-up to be reading it. Also, the fact that I've read 96 books so far this year and it's only August? Awesome.
Next up on the nonfiction list: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed. (Interestingly, last night I had a dream about entheogens. In the dream they were very spiritually significant. I say "interestingly" because I've never actually used entheogens.)
