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Akhirnya si pemalas menyelesaikan buku ini :D. Tadinya mau menyerah; tidak melanjutkan membacanya. Tapi semangat Bu Julia yang terasa di keseluruhan buku membuatku urung meninggalkan buku ini. Kalau sampai segitunya, kenapa cuma tiga bintang? Ew, salahkan ebook yang ngaco. Banyak paragraf yang hilang atau juga tertukar letaknya?
Lagi-lagi buku ini menyampaikan cerita tentang orang yang menekuni passion-nya. Entah apa passion Bu Julia sebelum dia tiba di negeri Perancis. Pertama kalinya beliau dia ...more
Lagi-lagi buku ini menyampaikan cerita tentang orang yang menekuni passion-nya. Entah apa passion Bu Julia sebelum dia tiba di negeri Perancis. Pertama kalinya beliau dia ...more

Julia Child's biography starts out as a fascinating view into life in France only a few years after World War II, and this part of the book is wonderfully evocative of the time period, both the landscape and the food. Alas, time passes and the story devolves into a litany of places she went and the development of her books and TV show and it gets a bit tedious. But it's still worth reading.
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There is so much about this book to like. Julia Child's personality came through with panache in this memoir. I admire her ability to adapt to a new culture and come to passionately love it. I was inspired by the fact that she found her niche in cooking at the relatively late age of 37! Fantastic read.
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