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    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 »
    Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): Girlfriend needs some honey and lemon. That's a raspy voice. In Mexico, if you don't play the national anthem exactly as written or give a poor perfor... more »
    stacyinbean: While on the subject of Missouri I'd just like to add 'Claire McCaskill 2016'! more »
  • #bookreview

    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. More »
  • #hankwilliamsjrandsarahpalin

    Hank Williams, Jr. Does A Disservice To The National Anthem