My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme

[snugglekitty]

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.)

Comments

[bluepapercup]

:) Food books that make one hungry are the best sort!!

I have to smile and comment on your dream mention because it sounds like a neat dream. I have found entheogens to be spiritually significant in my own waking life, it's cool that they appear in someone else's (who's never used them!) dream life.

I await your review of the Lucid Dreaming book - it's a project of mine that still had had no success.

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

I await your review of the Lucid Dreaming book - it's a project of mine that still had had no success.

I've had pretty good luck with it when I have it on my mind, if that makes sense.