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more about #bookreport more comments → whynotshesaid: I didn't really care for Julie & Julia, but the sexual voyeurism aspect of this intrigues me. I'll probably rent a copy from the library. I usually b... more » Jenloveshercurves: This seems so weird. Ugh, open relationships, I just don't get it. Maybe because when I'm with someone, I don't want anyone else. That's how I work... more » Rooo sez BISH PLZ: "that newish breed, the personal-meat-journey" I ... feel I may have missed something. I ... feel it may not be a problem. more » MargaretMoony: "Instead, she felt unmoored and unhappy and entered into a torrid, bondage-tinged affair, which morphed into the world's most awful-sounding open marr... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: By 1974, Julia Child had written the introduction to the first edition of "The Joy of Sex," invented the modern ball gag, and was on the planning comm... more » MyNameIsChris: This is quite an interesting post to follow up the previous with... more » SarahHeartburn: Well, in her defense, anyone who is seriously studying cooking should learn basic butchery sooner or later (a young female relative of mine had to cho... more » TheFormerJuneBronson: You know, I didn't like her much in her first book, and I somehow suspect that this book isn't going to make me like her more. more » Penny: Instead, she felt unmoored and unhappy and entered into a torrid, bondage-tinged affair, which morphed into the world's most awful-sounding open marri... more » JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: So I can dig up my old food journals and finally get a book deal? IN YOUR FACE! (Which might be the working title...) more » Trulymadlyme: Memoirs, generally speaking, fall into two categories: "I can relate" and "I want to go on your adventure." You forgot the shockingly common, holy... more » BeckySharper: Ooh, I just bought this as an e-book, so between this and the NYTBR review this weekend, I'm really looking forward to reading it--in a voyeuristic, b... more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yeah, good luck getting Amy Adams to sign on for that one. more » Steverino Begins: It's about time Gawker covered this--but you barely scratch the surface of the bombshells in this book. I don't know how you could cover this without ... more » stoprobbers: Alright, I want to add this to my long tirade below: I AM glad that you were able to once again publish "The King Of Pop is gonna lick your lollipop!... more » -
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Julie Powell's Cleaving Is A Bloodbath Of Meat/Sex Metaphors
A combination of the writer-learns-to-clown/cobble/farm genre and that newish breed, the personal-meat-journey, with the subgenre that might be called the infidelity-food memoir (a venerable oeuvre pioneered by M.F.K. Fisher, advanced by Ruth Reichl and Judith Jones), Cleaving gives good blood.
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Book: Michael Jackson Was Gay, A Bottom, And Had Progressive Views On Porn
While on vacation, I read Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson. Like any corny piece of crap, it contains some golden kernels (e.g. Liza Minnelli smoking pot, Mark Ronson's personal anecdotes, and interviews with Jackson's supposed gay lovers).
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Sued For Plagiarism
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is being sued for plagiarism and copyright infringement. Author Sue Hassett claims that Hasselbeck's book, The G Free Diet-A Gluten Free Survival Guide, rips off Hassett's book, Living with Celiac Disease, which she sent to Hasselbeck last year. More »
