I enjoyed this book - felt like I was sitting down and having conversations with Julia, as she remembered how she felt her life "began" when she moved to France and became enamored of French cooking.But, unfortunately, just as a conversation would, the book meandered too much for me. I found my inte...
It made me want to cook, eat and live in France! She's very funny and honest. It took forever to realize that when she said "marketing" she really meant "shopping at the market." This books is also reviewed at my blog Books: A true story
Interesting memoir. Child was a fascinating person, and one gets the feeling, a prickly and passionate one as well. Nothing is ever stated right out front, but in passing she refers to stomping on letters in anger and that sort of thing. I suspect she was formidable. This book made me terribly hungr...
Delightful, and so interesting to read about how Julia Child became The French Chef. Caveat - it helps if you can read a bit of French, and at times the lists of wines they drank at a particular meal can get a bit much (if you're not an oenophile).
This was an amazing book on an incredible woman. Reading this was like having a conversation with her in the room; her voice was always audible through the text. I loved how well everything flowed together.
This autobiography of Julia Child is engaging and pleasant to read. It is, as the title suggests, not an account of her whole life, but of the time she spent living in France. It was written with Alex Prud'homme, and although it was finished and published after her death, I believe that the writing ...
My Life in France is one of those delightful non-fiction books that reads like fiction, and is therefore easily accessible and enjoyable.Reading about the making of a cookbook (or cookery-bookery as Julia Child called it) was fascinating, and made me realise how much work went into putting together ...
Reading this book was a real treat. Julia Child is wonderful company--enthusiastic, observant, funny--and her joie de vivre is on just about every page. I fell hard in love with her and her husband Paul as depicted in Meryl Streep's movie, and this book strengthened that attachment.
I picked this one up after seeing "Julie and Julia," which I quite enjoyed. Like others of my generation, I'd grown up knowing who Julia Child was, but I'd never actually watched an episode of her show, nor bothered cracking one of her cookbooks. I was more familiar with Dan Akroyd's version of her ...
This is Julia Child's autobiography. It provides family details about her growing up years in Pasadena, California and continues into her marriage to Paul Child and their early years living in France. She says that the early years of her marriage and their life in Paris were some of her happiest y...
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