Book #9 "Julie & Julia" -Julie Powell: So as you can tell I have been doing nothing but reading with my summer so far, which has been perfectly fine by me.
"Julie & Julia" (along with having numerous French words that I can't pronounce, excessive use of the 'f word', and lots of unnecessary talk about Julie's friend's sex lives) however, was actually really funny. I can honestly say that I did not expect to laugh while reading a book about some crazy lady from New York who got it in her head to cook her way through a French cookbook (some 500 and something recipes) in a year, sounds almost like trying to read 100 books in a year. But maybe it is just really in my head that these two could ever even start to be considered on the same level of impressiveness.
Overall, I really enjoyed the read. It wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be. I've been a huge fan of the movie, starring Meryl Steep and Amy Adams, ever sense the first time I saw it. And then when I read the book it was the same but at the same time it was different (if that even makes any sense). At first I was really disappointed but then I got into the book at it turns out that it has all the humor and awkwardness that just didn't make it into the movie and it was fantastic in a completely different, and yet wonderful, kind of way.
So yeah, I guess you could say I liked it.
Next book up for ...wait for it...#10!! (WOO DOUBLE DIGITS)Is going to be a novelization of the Broadway musical "West Side Story" -Irving Shulman. I will say this now, I have never seen nor have I ever been told the storyline of "West Side Story" which seems kind of bad to me for some reason...so much so that I am apparently feeling the need to apologize for my lack of "West Side Story" knowledge.
Anyways, that's all for now,
Michaela Jane
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