Yes, it was a really good read. I love food and travel literature so this was perfect reading for me. Maybe I'll get it from the library and re-read it before I see the movie. So often they completely change the story from the book to the movie. "Under the Tuscan Sun" anybody? That movie in no way resembled the book and not for the better! And that will probably be the case here because the movie trailer seems to follow Julia Child's life as a parallel to the Julie story. In the book, the only Julia Child story line was about Julie making all the recipes in Julia's cookbook, as I recall. Regardless, I'll see the movie because I love Julia and cooking!