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“Let me tell you what this book is not about: a cookbook collector. It's not even really about food. I think my rating would have been higher if I would have been better prepared for the lack of relevance of the title.
Sisters (that should have been the title of this book), Jess and Emily Bach are sisters who are extremely different: Emily is the highly successful CEO of a technology company while Jess is pursuing a PhD at Berkeley and moonlighting as an environmental activist. This is a comparison of 1) how they deal with the death of their mother from their childhood, 2) their respective love lives, and 3) how they generally live their lives. Honestly, there was a small part of a cookbook collector but I wanted WAY more about that aspect; plus, I felt like there was this whole subplot about religion and hasidic Jews that was completely under-developed.
Ultimately, I truly enjoyed Goodman's style of writing, and I didn't dislike the book, per se. I was just very uninvested in the storyline for the majority of the book and felt like it was utterly predictable that I found myself passively reading. The ending got much better but it was too little too late to save it from a mediocre rating.”
Nicole R wrote this review Sunday, December 11, 2011.
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