The Cookbook Collector
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0036S4BVC
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Books About Books,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Jess Bach is the best Marianne Dashwood since the original....ever!!!! I will reread her part of the story again soon. The rest of the book....well!!!!
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman was our most recent book club selection that was discussed yesterday. We were all in agreement that it was just sort of "blah". This is the story of motherless sisters, the older Emily, driven and ambitious is the self-appointed nurturer to younger Jess, a...
Allegra Goodman is a wonderful writer but I wish publishing marketeers would stop hailing her as a contemporary Jane Austen; it does them both a disservice. You could argue that marriage is at the center of The Cookbook Collector and that moral questions drive the plot, but it is a stretch to find m...
Not my typical book but I loved it. Not having had a sister it's hard for me to understand the bond between sisters. Nut I enjoyed Emily & Jess's stories.
Oh please - both females beautiful, clever etc, main men flawed but handsome... cliché followed cliché. I gave up by page 40
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