Have cleaver, will travel

Obsessive author Julie Powell, whose blog about a year of cooking  Julia Child's recipes became a popular movie, has a new obsession - butchery - and a new book, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession.
Women of a certain age loved the film Julie and Julia for the sparkling performances by Meryl Streep as Julia, Jane Lynch as her sister and Stanley Tucci as Julia's appreciative husband.  We worried about demure Amy Adams, working so hard as Julie. And there was the nostalgia for the post-war days when Julia started cooking (my English companion gasped "oh, real butter!") and the '60s when we started cooking from Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
There were some murmurs of sympathy at the time for her husband, Eric, who was portrayed as just a little miffed at all the attention he wasn't getting from his cooking/blogging wife. Reactions to the new book are less polite.  Critics are calling it a bloodbath, boring, clumsy, self-obsessed, embarrassing.  Okay, the briefest possible synopsis:  Success, infidelity, butchering, divorce, tell all in too much detail.  TMI du jour.
Dare we hope this signals an end to the dear diary confessional memoir by people with nothing much to say?
My review of the movie:  http://lakeconews.com/content/view/10164/42/