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And also, apparently, I cannot type. Excuse the errors in my post above. Sigh.

I like the Amazon music store, and their prices are excellent. I am also an emusic subscriber--and that service can't be beat. I recommend the post by David Pakman, President and CEO of eMusic on the emusic blog, 17 dots.

To quote a paragraph:
While Amazon isn’t willing to make sales data available, we are more than happy to: eMusic sells more than 7,000,000 songs a month. Seven million tracks of independent music covering everything from Cat Power to Miles Davis. Since Amazon opened its MP3 store on September 25, 2007, eMusic has sold 40,000,000 tracks. Since November of 2003, we have sold almost 200,000,000 songs. These are huge numbers, and firmly back our claims to be the #1 site for independent music and the #2 digital music service after iTunes. Those declarations have not previously been disputed.

I LOVED this book! I was so pleased it was chosen as the Club selection. I wish Alex Prud'Homme would have started this project with Julia earlier, I would have liked to see the results of more conversations with her. The inclusion of Paul's photos are an essential companion to her words. They give you a visual sense of what they were seeing and doing.

Her relationship with Simca was familiar. I think we've all had a relationship with a really intense person and finally one day we have had enough! Maybe the span of the relationship happens much more quickly these days because we can communicate so much more with a person than Julia & Simca were able to (travel, phone vs. letters, almost no mention of the phone).

Unlike several other readers, the descriptions of the food and cooking DID NOT make me want to eat it or try to make it. I guess I am hopelessly picky!

Throughout reading, I kept telling my husband, "you will really like this book" and sure enough, he is reading it now. I have a feeling the descriptions of the food and cooking will be much more appealing to him and we will have a French kitchen in no time.

I am starting Julie & Julia next!

I made a google calendar (ical, too) for the schedule in case anyone wants to add it to their calendars. You can search for it in the public calendars--look up Apartment Therapy and it's the first one in the results. Or, here is the calendar id, if you'd like to cut and paste the address.