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.
I had something of a love/hate relationship with this novel, but the writing, the language, is superb. Lyrical. It captures much of the discontent and discomfort of that time, as well as the strange realization, as youth merges with adulthood, that life will never, ever be quite what we'd expected. ...
I'm sure this was a good book. I really wanted to read it... I just couldn't get into it. So much is happening in my life right now that what I really need is some good old-fashioned escapism. I don't want drama, I want happiness.I might need to read this again in 6-12 months.
I'm about half way through this book (and skipping over quite a lot of text to get there) and I can't decide if I should continue on or not. There seems to be a lot of new characters being added the further into the book I get and I'm wondering where they will fit in to the main story. ??Continue or...
Sometimes the good thing about partaking in a reading challenge is that it makes you push your boundaries and read a book you normally wouldn't - I read the Cookbook Collector for just that reason. I'd seen it previously in stores, but it just never gained by attention enough that I read it. Howev...
For a novel about two sisters, this book spent a great deal of time on secondary characters. I picked up this book not because I wanted to read about the dot com era but because I was interested in the cookbook collection! By the end of the book I had a good sense of who the character Jess was, bu...
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