From Blog to Book to Belly

Julie Powell started a blog The Julie/Julia Project in 2002 to share her experience making every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One. Her book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen... is not so much the blog in book form, but a book about taking on a unique challenge, while working at a not-exactly-friendly workplace, in a typical NYC apartment with its own unique challenges, as your mother tries to talk you out of the whole thing, and blogging about all of this. Read the book and skip the calories!

If You Liked...Adrian Mole...Meet Gary Benchley!

Gary Benchley, Rock Star , by Paul Ford, was first published in serial form in The Morning News , a website which looks like a newspaper for the generation that doesn't read newspapers. A reviewer compared this book to High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby, but I found the title character to be much more like Adrian Mole. (Adrian is the main character in a series of bestselling comic novels by Sue Townsend.) Like Adrian, Gary is at once both painfully clueless and painfully earnest. Follow Gary as he travels from Albany to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, seeking fame and fortune. Thrill to his adventures with temp jobs, "interesting" roommates, and a girlfriend/blogger.

Julie's Intro to our Blog

Greetings! A lot of what we do is Reader Advisory, a fancy name for discussing and recommending books. Many of us are avid, or even voracious readers, and like to share new authors or titles with others. This will be a place where you can discover a new author or genre. Enjoy

Recently a library visitor mentioned a book that I'd once tried and put down. He did such a good job describing the book, that I gave it another try--and now I'm LOVING it. (It's Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay. The sequel is Dearly Devoted Dexter. It's a mystery, takes place in present-day Miami, and the narrator works for the police. He also happens to be a serial killer himself.)