Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
by:
Julie Powell (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316053822 (0316053821)
Publish date: December 1st 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
Cooking,
Marriage,
Foodie
Should be subtitled, Eat, Pray, Have Deviant Sex. Not exactly what I expected after having seen Julie & Julia. I suspect all the dirty parts were edited out to make it safe viewing for all. I still find myself angry at the author for the way it ended. But good overall. Especially suited to thos...
This book had so much potential. Julie Powell’s first memoir, Julie and Julia, was a book that I absolutely adored. The movie version was even fairly well done. When I heard that she’d written a second book, I was thrilled! When I saw the fairly epic subtitle (A story of marriage, meat, and obsessio...
Although I liked Julie and Julia, I just disliked this book from the beginning and cut my losses early and returned it to the library without getting far.
The follow-up to Julie and Julia takes a much darker tone as the author takes some very different turns in life. I found it to be quite a bleak view from her earlier work, but still interesting. If you like Anthony Bourdain, you might like this one. For the full review, please go here: http://www.e...