WIP Wednesday
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Here’s another work in progress item…
…getting through this book.
Have you ever gotten about halfway through reading a book and realized that you don’t like it? But by that point you’ve invested half a book’s worth of time, and now you feel like you ought to finish the darn thing?
I thought this would be a fun read, since I’ve been in a similar situation myself – cooking along with Alton Brown. I’m about 3/4 through reading this and I still haven’t gotten to the good part. In fact, I’ve pretty much decided that there isn’t going to be a good part.
I don’t like the main character.
The story isn’t engaging…. or believable half the time.
The main character constantly equates food to sex to the point of ridiculousness. ie: at one point she likens trussed chickens to “sex-crime victims”. (Um… nope. Can’t say I’ve ever had that thought in my own kitchen.)
The movie promo suggests that Julie and Julia share screen time about 50/50. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but this is not so in the book. Julia is sadly missing most of the time.
What really stinks is that I have very little time to read lately. Maybe one of these days I’ll go get a coffee and slog through the rest of this thing and be done with it.
Save yourself the trouble and just rent the movie!
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Another to-do I’ve got on the list is going over to Goodreads and logging in the books I have finished.
Here are a couple:
I don’t work on my Goodreads reading list very often – but I do love seeing what my friends are reading and taking a peek at their book reviews. If you enjoy books – this is a great way to discover new ones and share your favorites with your friends.
‘Til tomorrow!
Jenn : )
