My Life in France
by Alex Prud'Homme, Julia Child
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Book Reviews of My Life in France
Book Review: Great Book - Opened my Eyes to Another Side of Julia
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved the book. I've read it twice now and liked it even better the second time. This give a great insight to how and why she started cooking. It paints a great picture of Paris during the late 40's. Her relationship with her husband was interesting and sweet which presented a different side to her. It shows a vulnerability that I wasn't aware of. Great pictures add a lot to the book. It made me want to know more about her life and buy a couple of her cookbooks Highly recommend it. My Life in FranceBook Review: Flavor of France
Summary: 5 Stars
Love food? Enjoy Paris? Read Julia Child's lovely memoir compiled by her nephew from letters sent by Julia to her family during years of residence in France when she learned to cook and started producing the very first culinary instruction show on television back in the 1960's. All do-it-yourself and creative innovation, Julia and Paul, her spouse and food stylist, publicity agent and bottle washer, brought fine food to a vast American audience that didn't know much about international cuisine. Thank you Julia!Book Review: "My Life in France" on Kindle
Summary: 3 Stars
After watching "Julie and Julia," I ordered this book on Kindle. Though I like my Kindle, there are a number of things it doesn't do well. That was evident in this book, which has wonderful photographs by Paul Child. Unfortunately, they are too small and dark on Kindle to really see.
I am glad that I saw the film before reading the book. Julia Child's book depicts a much more intelligent, driven, exacting person than the one shown in the film. I would definitely recommend this book, but not on Kindle!
Book Review: not what I expected
Summary: 4 Stars
I very much enjoyed Julia's descriptions of beautiful France, wonderful food, painstaking work, and life with her devoted husband, Paul. She did seem a bit full of herself at times and forgot that not everyone has the privilege of life abroad. I also found myself frustrated with her obstinacy toward her father; after all, she was a grown woman and he, an old man set in his ways. Why engage him in political discussions at all? Altogether, though, an enjoyable look at Julia's life and 1950's France.Book Review: My Life in France
Summary: 5 Stars
This book about Julia's life in France is a wonderful, eye-opening and down-to-earth "expose'" right from the author's musings - she paints a wonderful picture
of her life, her surroundings, her friends, and her loves: cooking, her husband, and the city of Paris. This revelation of who she was (educated, insatiably curious about French cuisine, funny, liberal, well-liked,and extremely sociable) made me wish I had become a fan long ago. Now I'm cooking French as I've wanted to
for years!