The Cookbook Collector

I just finished reading another book called The Cookbook Collector, I was disappointed. I was in the bookstore at MIT near my work when I came across this book on the top sellers table. I thought I remembered the summary sounding interesting when I picked it up so I went home and downloaded it on my kindle. Total fail..

Here's the summary:

Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much—as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way.

Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.

I would say that the last 20% of the book was the best part, the first 80% was slow and a little hard to get through.  But I finished it, I have a hard time giving up on a book when I start reading it needless to say not one I would really recommend.