As Always, Julia

fitzie · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:12 pm

Sarted his yesterday and I can't put it down. I love reading other people's letters and these two could really write. Very interesting and highly recommended.

Fitzie

auntcy1 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:54 pm

I also read this and loved it. The gift of writing seems to have been lost. We're now amongst a world of tweeting bloggers.
Nance

fitzie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:42 am

I really loved this book. Have a question. Canned sausage was used in one of the stuffings/dressings. Any idea what this could be? Surely not Viennas.

Amy · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:43 am

I'm in the middle of this right now. Some of the correspondence certainly explains some of the ingredients in Mastering.

Boy, letter writing is a lost art...

Amy

crystal · **Joined:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:47 pm **Posts:** 390

Fitzie,
Thx, I missed it, but it's on it's way to my trusty kindle, even as we speak. Love Julia!

gardnercook · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:49 am

Loved this book...read on a "girls vacation" in Mexico and of course was ridiculed for not having a traditional "beach book".
ilene

Paul Kierstead · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:03 am

auntcy1 wrote:

The gift of writing seems to have been lost.

To be honest, I think the gift of attention span has been lost. When I do carefully craft an email or post that is longer it is extremely evident from the replies that very few people actually read it. This is true in professional and personal spaces. Most people seem to have adopted tl;dr as a lifestyle. After a while you just say F-it, why bother if no one is going to read. Of course, in Julia's day, you weren't in a deluge in message/mails, so I do see the problem.

On the book, I think I might have a go at it.

gardnercook · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:21 am

Paul Kierstead wrote:

auntcy1 wrote:

The gift of writing seems to have been lost.

To be honest, I think the gift of attention span has been lost. When I do carefully craft an email or post that is longer it is extremely evident from the replies that very few people actually read it. This is true in professional and personal spaces. Most people seem to have adopted tl;dr as a lifestyle. After a while you just say F-it, why bother if no one is going to read. Of course, in Julia's day, you weren't in a deluge in message/mails, so I do see the problem.

On the book, I think I might have a go at it.

Paul, I remember when USA Today first came out, I heard a speaker (who was from the NY Times) refer to it as McNews and said that it would alter how the next generation got their news....short paragraphs and nothing else. I'm thinking he was right.
ilene

jeanf · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:52 am

I was on a 1 hour conference call yesterday (continuation of another 1 hour call) where the person who had filled out a spreadsheet put the EXACT opposite of what I had emailed her in each column. Very frustrating.
I need to see if my piddly library has that book, the best parts of Julie and Julia were the letters!

fitzie · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:06 pm

I've also gotten into the DeVotos through this book and have read several of his books. I enjoyed them immensly, but then I'm a lover of conservationists and the West. I'm waiting for a couple more from Powell's.
Fitzie

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