![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's what the book is about: just as Powell was finishing writing Julie & Julia (the book), she entered into an affair with an old boyfriend which lasted for about two years. Three hundred pages I wish I hadn't read, after the jump. Unpleasant to read, ultimately pretty boring except when it's irritating, and a book from which I took nothing away at all except perhaps a clarification of my own sense of what I do and don't want to read. Not uncomfortable, not challenging, not in-your-face, not too real. That said, I found her latest book, Cleaving, one of the most unpleasant reading experiences I've ever had. I wasn't bothered by her chatty style, I wasn't bothered by the fact that she swears (join the club), and I thoroughly enjoyed both the book and the movie, and found neither particularly presumptuous. I thought it was a cool project, I thought she had something useful to say about teaching and learning and food, and I definitely thought - and still think - that because she got a book deal and a movie deal and made a lot of money, she was rung up for a lot of generic Blog Sins that have nothing to do with her and are not her fault. As you may recall, I offered what I called a "contrarian defense" of Julie & Julia - one that I think applies equally to both the book and the movie. ![]()
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