Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, (Paperback)

from 5aweek

Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, by Julie Powell Julie Powell's penchant for whining carries from her previous novel into "Cleaving." While reading the book, I actually felt very bogged down and depressed, especially after seeing page after page of her whining about her trouble...

from LarsTheLibrarian

Julie Powell's life is falling apart and it is ALL HER FAULT. She's cheating on her husband with a man she previously cheated on him with in college. She falls in love with the man and even considers leaving her husband for him, even as the lover pulls away from her and stops returning her calls....

from evangelista

Fans of Julie and Julia are typically very forgiving of the flawed, struggling Powell because they identify on some level with attaching oneself to an endeavor in order to define oneself, to strive to become something bigger or better than one's current self. Fans also tend to be Julia Child love...

from AmyElizabeth

Cleaving is Julie Powell's followup to her bestselling memoir Julia and Julia. It is not, however, a followup in the sense that it's just as good. It's simply a memoir of the years following the publishing of her first book and let me tell you, she took one huge wrong turn. It turns out Julie's l...

from khuggard

As a general rule I don't write reviews of books I didn't finish. But I hated this book enough that I'm breaking that rule. I was actually surprised by just how much I disliked this book because I quite enjoyed Powell's first book, Julie & Julia. Apparently a lot of other people did too because h...