Julie and Julia
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Julie Powell
The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia. Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It's a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey -- life rediscovered through aspics, calves' brains and cré me brûlée.
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Author
Julie Powell
Pages
320
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2005-09-01
ISBN
0759514577 9780759514577
Ratings
Google: 3
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"Finished August 20th. I didn’t really like this book. I usually love books about food, but I find Julie an annoying narrator. She’s very whiney and self-absorbed and pretty unkind. And knowing that she is a real person just made this book hard to read. "
Nikki Nienhaus
"Much better than the movie"
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Cheri Halla
"What a fun read! "
Kate
"The chapter about lobsters! "
Destiny Angel-Hubble
"This is the only book of hers that I have read, but I really enjoyed it"
Emily Smith
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