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Monday, December 26, 2011
Book Review Of Julie Powell's Cleaving
If you were wondering what "Julie did next?" after cooking her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering The Art Of French Cooking', this book contains all the answers. Apparently she went on to master the art of butchering by joining as an apprentice at a meat shop. Oh and before that she decided to have an affair.
Anyone who has either seen or read Julie & Julia would not believe that anything could disrupt the domestic bliss of the much married and seemingly much-in-love Julie and Eric. But Life has a different plan in mind and so Julie finds herself with a passionate paramour. It is more to escape from the self-brought on confusions and inner demons that pop up in her now complicated life, that she decides to learn butchering. Whether it helps and whether she manages to come to terms with herself forms the rest of the book.
'Cleaving', A Story Of Meat, Marriage And Obsession or so it says, contains many graphic and elaborate descriptions of slaughtering of live animals and processing of dead ones. Being a non-vegetarian myself, I didn't find it particularly repulsive although I did find it to be too much information. Afterall I don't think I am ever going to gut a pig in my life (I sincerely hope not!) So I found myself skimming over long paragraphs of such unnecessary and not to mention gory details. I can well understand if it makes some people squeamish too. I believe that she meant to draw parallels between the going-ons in her life and all the cutting, trimming and separating that she is doing, but frankly it was a little boring to wade through all that stuff.
The style of writing is pretty similar to her first book - light, colloquial and with some self-deprecating humour as well as innumerable references to her favourite show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Many of the central characters of the previous book show up here too in addition to newer ones - which is understandable as obviously she is writing about her own life. Although 'Julie & Julia' had no recipes in it, this one has a handful of them - but then I wasn't tempted to try any of them.
The book doesn't really take any strong moral stand on infidelity - rather it just deals with it in a matter of fact manner - chronicling things as it happened. This implies that there isn't really much point to the story or that I simply missed the point! So at no point of time did I feel very involved in it - it did not move me in the least, nor could I sympathize with any character in the book - be it the long-suffering husband, the creepy and masochistic lover or Julie herself. It felt like reading an impersonal list without a strong perspective. Sometimes it just felt vague, meandering and mundane - but I admit that it is also an honest and brave attempt. Although I enjoyed Julie & Julia a lot, I must confess that Cleaving didn't quite match up to my expectations.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
"Young Mandela" Book Review
Nelson Mandela led South Africa to freedom during his presidency. He preached nonviolence to achieve leading his country to the relative stability that South Africa has today. He ended the notorious apartheid laws that oppressed the non-white population. He ended other oppressive practices of the South African government and led South Africa to democracy and rapid economic growth.
Nelson Mandela is a figure that is known for his seriousness, his nonviolence, and his higher level of morality. "Young Mandela" is a book that portrays Nelson Mandela as a more human character and an idealistic terrorist against the oppressive police state system that South Africa had until 1994. Writer David James Smith shows the dark side of this sanctified and iconic winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
This book is nothing like those unauthorized biographies that slander important figures like the late Princess Diana. "Young Mandela" is the authoritative biographical source for information on Mandela before his imprisonment. It is a more reliable source of information on Nelson Mandela than his own memoir. "Young Mandela" is based on the most detailed research by a more serious historian than typical biographical profiles of Nelson Mandela.
This book is different from a slanderous book in another way. "Young Mandela" shows the complexity of Nelson Mandela. Mandela does appear to be deeply flawed in this book, but this book also shows Nelson Mandela as a man that has an iron will and a higher dedication to the struggle for freedom than the mythical Mandela.
In "Young Mandela", Mandela selfishly chooses to have a family that he is willing to abandon for his activism and his idealistic terrorism plans. He is also described as being like too many patriarchal African males who are raised to live without the responsibility of a monogamous lifestyle. Like many politicians, Mandela seems narcissistic in this book.
"Young Mandela" portrays a man who is simultaneously more flawed and more devoted to freedom than the real Martin Luther King Jr. "Young Mandela" also profiles a man who has been sanctified and made a marketed brand name about as much as Dr. King.
David James Smith has accomplished what the greatest biographers of Reverend King have accomplished. He has made a civil rights legacy accessible to flawed readers. He has restored the spotlight back to a civil rights struggle in the readers' minds. Now the readers of this book can focus on the meaning of freedom itself without being distracted by a love for the man who represents the struggle for freedom to the world.
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