Sunday, March 28, 2010

Brutal Erotic


Not what you are thinking.

I'm reading Cleaving a Story of Marriage Meat and Obsession by Julie Powell, and it's well, not what I was expecting.

I knew as a vegetarian, I would find it a hard read as it is about her time as a butcher's assistant. I was prepared for that, for the blood and guts of it.
I wasn't prepared for how she makes it sound more poetic and sensual then just tearing steaks from the bone.

I'm only three chapters into it at this point, but it's one I am having to say will make you think about your place in life. I'll have a review in a few days when I'm done reading it.

5 comments:

  1. Very interested to hear your final thoughts about the book. I've read Jules and Julia and have considered reading this one too.

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  2. I love that kind of surprises. That is exactly how I felt about reading Christ in Concrete.

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  3. Magaly... I have never heard of that book. I'll have to check into it

    Carissa... I'm reading it as fast as I can. Juggling it with Jane Austen's Emma.

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  4. This book is very different. A love for cuts of meat may be useful in keeping connected to the story line. I find her obsession with a lover called :D annoying. This book is more about her loves. She make meat a love. Wine is drunk by the bottles in single sittings. Her fascination with Buffy and vampires continues and makes me wonder if this is what led her to write a recipe for blood sausage? She had some unusual recipes sprinkled here and there.

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  5. As a Buffy fan and a vampire fan in general, I'm loving the Buffiness she's got sprinkled so far through this book.
    I am actually connecting on so many levels with what she went through. I'm on about chapter 8 right now, and all I have to say is she's a brave woman for writing this novel. Brave woman

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