[Cadaverous Pallor]

I have no large urge to see Julie & Julia. When the book crossed my desk I read the blurb and the description kind of turned me off. "A woman tries to fix the massive problems in her life by obsessing about cooking everything in a cookbook in one year" sounds more depressing than inspiring to me. Um, maybe there are better ways to work on your marriage or fix your career.

I know I'm judging this story without any reading or viewing experience, but I am totally clueless when it comes to these tales of supposed soul-searching experiences, especially when it comes to spending inordinate amounts of time away from the problems themselves.