Carolyn B. (BookwormCMB) - , reviewed on 8/9/2009 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I found the premise of the book to be interesting, but the execution was tedious. After a while, I got frustrated with the author, who came across as whiny and self-absorbed at times. I suppose that's a potential complaint of any memoir type book, but I just found myself wanting to know more about her psychic connection to Julia Child and less about her feelings about her job and the bureaucrats she worked with. She hates her job and thinks all Republicans are troglodytes...I get it. Now get on with the book. Her opening chapters and her last chapter were very well done. The middle of the book, however, becomes bogged down with descriptions of her plumbing crises, her friends' love lives and her passing fancy with the semi-famous of NY, as well as the writings of a 17th century diarist. Who cares? Not me!

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