Julie & Julia movie, starring Meryl Streep & Stanley Tucci (so excited!) delayed until next year (not so excited)

http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2008/10/word-is-the-julie-and-julia-movie-is-being-de.html

November Book

Thanks to Amanda for suggesting November's book and providing the information about it.

We will be reading Julie & Julia by Julie Powell. The next meeting will be on Thursday, November 20th at 6pm. Does anyone have any ideas of where they'd like to eat?

In this book New Yorker Julie Powell tries to tackle 524 Julia Child recipes in her tiny apartment kitchen in 365 days. The Monroe County Public Library has a couple copies (in the non fiction section). In expensive copies can also be bought at book retailers and amazon.com.

Movie Time!

So The Secret Life of Bees comes to theaters tomorrow. After it's made it to the 5 buck club list, let's all go out and see the movie! This will give us a chance to discuss the book more for those who aren't able to make it to book club tonight.

"I'm bringin home a baby bumble bee, won't my mommy bee so proud of me...

Twice, I've posted accidentally to the IUAA Blog rather than my blog. This post is intentional! Amanda asked me to put my bee picture on the blog. I shot this at May's at the Fall Open House. For me, to shoot a bee is something akin to someone else shooting a bear. I am very allergic to bees and all stinging insects and carry my injector with me at all times. For me to get up close and personal to a bee like this really gets my adrenaline pumping! Who needs epinephrine?

Having said that, I would like to say that I'm so sorry I won't be in town for the next IUAA meeting because I so loved reading the Bee book. I read it years ago. My favorite part was all of the factual information that the reader gets at the beginning of each chapter. If only humans would run society like the little bee colony, we might all be better for it.

So do you know the old camp song that my title refers to?

The Secret Life of Bees in theaters Oct. 17

Today's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show has the cast of The Secret Life of Bees. The movie stars Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys, and Jennifer Hudson. Most of us will miss it because Oprah comes on at 4 p.m., but her Web site has some video clips. Check it out at http://www.oprah.com/dated/oprahshow/oprahshow_20080915_bees.