This was my favorite of all of our book club selections. You fall in love with Julie and find yourself laughing through most of this book. Warning: it will make you hungry, so read on a full stomach! You find yourself rooting for Julie at the end of the book, much like the strangers that start to recognize her on the subway! Great, light-hearted read.

I read this because i love to cook and i love to read. I laughed out loud at Julie's antics in the kitchen. I'm not really sure what the excerpts from Paul Child's letters really added to the book. They weren't enough to really lend much to Julia's character, and so seemed unnecessary. Like one of her 'bleaders', i wish she hadn't cursed so much.... makes it seem as if she didn't have better words to use... a bad thing for an author.
I loved the stories about her workaday life and her cooking though.