Excellent movie! Made me want to rush out and buy Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” book! A simple movie but fun to watch and very well done, flashbacks are done well and the acting is quite entertaining. It has to be somewhat hard to make a movie essentially about cooking, but Nora Ephron pulled it off splendidly, and I adore both Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Meryl Streep has impressed me ever since I first saw “Sophie’s Choice” and Amy Adams, she’s just so cute and fun to watch who wouldn’t like her? I first noticed her in “Enchanted” which remains to this day to be one of my favorite movies to watch with Anya. Speaking of who, Anya watched “Anastasia” for the first time today and she really liked it. I think she was most impressed with the fact that her name was in the movie too.
Arwen’s new favorite thing to watch is the Baby Einstein DVD called Baby’s First Sounds. I’m continually impressed with the educational value of most of the Baby Einstein DVDs. Although I don’t agree with the concept of Baby’s First Signs, so I won’t be purchasing that one.
Travis and I are going to watch Bruce Willis in “Surrogates” tonight and it looks interesting.
As far as reading goes, I don’t really recommend Dan Brown’s latest book “The Lost Symbol”. In one word, boring. I love the Robert Langdon character but this book was simply a replay of “Angels and Demons” and “The DaVinci Code” both of which were far superior to “The Lost Symbol”. I was very disappointed because the book which revolves around the Masons and the “secret” Masonic code intrigued me as I am the granddaughter of a Mason. However, I could hardly get through the first five chapters, I kept putting it off until I just had to force myself to finish it. Again, not impressed. So, I have reverted back to one of Dean Koontz’s old books “Sole Survivor” so far its much better!
I really recommend for everyone to watch “Julie and Julia” though, it was really entertaining!