false 11 158 151 true 5695925 read 4 true 1911481 currently-reading 3 true 1911480 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76572117 Every Little Thing in the World (Hardcover) by Nina de Gramont
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72439490 Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (Paperback) by John O'Donohue
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73851680 to: Julie & Julia, 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen (Paperback) by Julie Powell
I long for a return to the day when books aren't written on a gimic and good writing is a prerequisite for publication. Here is what consumer culture and praise for the almighty dollar and celebrity hath wrought: The Julie Powells of the world who latch onto some idea that will sell, sell, sell, but whose experience is neither memorable nor worth our time. The result is a cheap piece of candy; you eat it and forget it instantly.

If a real cook or someone who has a real interest in learning to cook had done this book, it would have been infinitely more satisfying. Powell, a professed "foodie," doesn't seem to know anything about food at all. And even though she says Julia Child "saves" her (if you define getting saved as getting a book and movie deal, well then I guess she did), she does nothing more than USE Child as a platform for her own bad writing and pseudo-journey into cooking. There's no real interaction with Child or her work ("Ooo, aspics are gross!) and Powell's chops as a writer aren't good enough to give readers soemthing to hold onto. As a result, the book is way-too self-absorbed, falling into the "who cares?" category of reading. In choosing to go "lit-light," Powell ends up with a flat meringue. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63332997 A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover) by Cristina Nehring
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70345554 True West: Authenticity and the American West (Postwestern Horizons) by Nathaniel Lewis
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63705996 A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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