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Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family | Kathleen Flinn
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A delicious new memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry A family history peppered with recipes, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good offers a humorous and flavorful tale spanning three (…more)
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DebinHawaii
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##25Alive

Probably not the kind of #Toast meant by today‘s prompt but here‘s two good toast-titled foodie memoirs. 🍞🧈😋💛

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 👌🏻 3mo
Eggs Ah these are great! 3mo
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DebinHawaii
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#NewYearNewBooks

Here‘s a few books from my stacks that feature a #VehicleCvr Ihave read all of them except The Lost Ticket which is in a #OUABC box that I hope to get to sometime this year. The tagged book is a fun foodie memoir favorite.
🚗🏍️🛵🛻🦼💛

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choices! 🛻📚 1y
Eggs Love this post ❤️🚘🤩 1y
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Smarkies
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Marking off this book as #somethingwrittenbyawoman for #nonfiction2019

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Smarkies
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A charming memoir about living in many states in the US with a loving family. It is also shows how food and cooking has helped to bind the family together and move past grief.
#NFNov
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@Clwojick

rsteve388 6 pts 5y
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AileenRR
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Mehso-so

Lovely midwestern family stories based around food. I liked parts 1 and 3 best which were about the author‘s immediate family. Part 2, which centered on her grandparents, had some sweet stories but I found myself tuning out a lot.

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InnerSavvy
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Enjoyed reading this memoir of this midwest family. Written to entertain.

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jdiehr

"Once I asked my grandmother if she loved me. It was in the middle of a hectic weekend morning when she was acting as short-order cook for a flock of kids and six adults. With a bit if exasperation, she replied quickly, 'I don't have to tell you I love you. I made you pancakes.' I was then handed my plate and told to sit down. She was right. I could taste her love in every bite."

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jdiehr
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Pickpick

Another great #dollartreefind - I love when that happens!
This is one if those books that makes me want to write my own. Everyone has a story. This is a lovely tribute to the author's family and includes lots of yummy sounding recipes.

JosieG I always browse the book section at Dollar Tree. I don't ALWAYS walk out with a book, but sometimes I end up with more than one just because for $1 I'm more willing to take a chance. And sometimes there are some truly exceptional finds hiding there. 7y
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webhau1
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Have read this in the past and loved it. Reading Again for bookclub. The audiobook is good on this one also.

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MPL
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Outdoor reading is the best reading. 🌳

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MPL
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Weekend book club reading.

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BritanyA
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Such a cute memoir. Read for #BookRiot challenge, and enjoyed reminiscing with the recipes, photos, and stories. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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webhau1
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I really love this book! I have read it and then also listened to the audiobook and it has a great narrator. It is filed many times with the cookbooks, it is really a memoir with recipes. The recipes are things the author remembers about growing up in a resourceful family. When I read it, it brought up so many funny memories for me from the time this time period. It is really a great read!!! So worth it

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WhiteDayLilies
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I absolutely loved this book! I was unsure about reading something referred to as a "good memoir" but am so very happy my local library had this book. There is so much heart in this family's stories. My mouth watered at all the recipes too! I would recommend this to everyone! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️?

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WhiteDayLilies
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...and I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out! This book is wonderful!! 😍📖

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WhiteDayLilies
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"Eat it. Burnt Toast makes you sing good," she'd tell them. This is becoming a fun game... Find the book's namesake in the book! Challenge accepted ??

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Spiderfelt
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This is was exactly what I look for in a food memoir: great stories, life lessons and recipes that spring from a place, a time and a history. The last chapter made me cry and the epilogue summed up all the lessons perfectly. The author's background as a journalist was evident in the concise writing.

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Spiderfelt
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My three favorite things: books, bikes and ferries. Today I got all three chaperoning 8th graders as they biked to Camp Orkila on Orcas Island.

brendanmleonard Awwww field trips! I miss chaperoning those. 9y
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Spiderfelt
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Is there such a thing as an 'untrue fact'? Is 'true fact' an oxymoron or just a redundancy?

DivineDiana Interesting observation! 9y
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Spiderfelt
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Editing sound files for the WA Talking Book & Braille Library. This memoir opens doors into my mother's world, at long last.

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