Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

Nearly thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolves to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves liver and aspic, but a new life.....lived with gusto.

This was the worst book that I ever read. I finished it because the library is doing it for a book discussion and since Martin has CHF we will never attend GREAT BOOKS again. I wanted to discuss a book and this is it. It isn't worth the paper that it was written on.

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

This is the story of two women. Their lives collide on faithful day and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice that we hope that you never have to face. Two years later, they meet again......the story starts there.