It's a lovely evening to sit outside and read, and I'm enjoying hearing the birds chirping in the background. 💙
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel | 
It's a lovely evening to sit outside and read, and I'm enjoying hearing the birds chirping in the background. 💙
“autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.”
#alphabetgame #letterI @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Oh Kindle you are such a tease. This has been in my TBR list for a few years and today it was on sale.
I‘m one chapter in and so far the MC is quite cheeky. 👍
so-soJuly 2018 at the beach in OC, MD: An ok book to read while on vacations.
Went to an ice cream/beer tasting pairing today at a local brewery with a friend who‘s been in my life since we were 7 years old. Not reading today. Too drunk. 🤷♀️😅🍻
pickIn this rags to riches story, Malka #startedfromthebottom as an immigrant to NYC‘s Lower East Side and comes out on top.
#timbittunes
Next up to read, borrowed from library. Don't know this author, has anyone read this?
so-soAlright I'll give this book ⭐⭐⭐⭐ bc Lillian was an amazing character, she was so three dimensional this book seemed near autobiographical. BUT, bc of this there was no real plot and I almost put it down completely due to the story being as thick as the ice cream I was reading about.. I will also add that this was an audiobook that was FABULOUSLY read by the author herself so Lillian was read as she was meant. All in all it was pretty good.
I love the character development but it rarely takes me this long to get through a book...
I'm listening to the audiobook and I have to admit I really like it. Although had i been reading a hardcopy I might've found it tedious and dense with all the details and time hopping...
pickI often gravitate towards books that somehow incorporate food as a character - what could be better than my two favorite pastimes in one - cooking and getting lost in a good read? So naturally the title of this one grabbed me and I was pleasantly surprised. In my opinion, Lillian Dunkle aka Malka Treynovsky, is eerily similar to Miranda Priestly of The Devil Wears Prada only instead of fashion she rules the world of ice cream!
so-soThe writer did a very good job in capturing the main character's voice. Malka, later Lillian, had a distinctive voice from the very first page. She was a hateful, annoying and needy child who grew up to be a hateful, annoying, needy AND entitled adult. I have no problems reading unlikable characters, but 500 pages, listening to Lillian was too much. There were definitely places where the plot could have been better edited.
6 hour road trip reading material. Have you read it? What did you think?
#Aprella so I listened to the lyrics of #BodakYellow and realized Ms. Cardi B is just giving us the 2018 rags to riches version, with a few colorful expressions 😂😂😂 One of my favorite HF novels and rags to riches story is the tagged book. Don‘t let the cover fool you...this is a well written, richly detailed, immigrant story set in the late 1800s/ early 1900s NYC. Young Malka could easily kick Cardi B‘s As$💛💛💛
pickFiction's chock full of male assholes, but you've gotta dig around a bit to find their female counterparts. Next time someone asks me to rec a book about an asshole woman (as people do), I'll point 'em towards Lillian Dunkle.
That said, I liked, but didn't love, the book. Lillian is beautifully realized, but all the other characters are a bit flat. And while the story's interesting, I was well ready for it to be over by the time it ended.
Various Littens got me curious about turmeric lattes, so I found a recipe and tried it over breakfast. It tasted okay, but it took a long while to make so I probably won't do it again
Ice cream book + unicorn nails (Nicole by OPI's Canadian Star over MAC's Galore Pink).
I went back to McNally Robinson and exchanged my random Swedish contemporary for a random historical novel that traces 70 years of NYC history. It should fit my current mood better.
Then I bought fancy ice cream on the way home. I've always wanted to try this stuff and Safeway had it on sale.
#heartsandhardcovers
The #keytomyheart ? Ice cream. All day everyday. I have been known to keep a gallon of ice cream in the freezer at work and ice cream cones in my desk.
This happened overnight
As usual, a big thank you to everyone!
#autumnreads Day 10: Favorite hot drink
Coffee is life. ☕
#awesomeautumnbooks Day 9:Satisfied Saturday & #autumnreads Day 9: Book and Blanket
#icecreamandcake #gypsykatsbirthdayweek
Happy Birthday @GypsyKat !!
I'm going to stay on the Lower East Side awhile longer.
#immigrantfiction #nyc
The other day I tackled an ice related tag, so today with the #iceicebaby tag I decided to go in a more summery direction. #90sinjuly
#sizzlinsummerreads I don't think I've ever posted this book before...it's a wonderful historical fiction, set in the early 1900's NYC and follows the raise to fame & riches of little Russian immigrant Malka Treynovski, who makes her fortune selling/branding #ice-cream🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦would make a great summer read😍I had to include adorable piggy Olivia because when I see the word #ice , I think figure skating ⛸ @Tiffy_Reads
I don't have any ice cream right now, so this will have to do for #BooksAndIceCream. #Riotgrams
pickDon't get between Jake and his ice cream. I loved this book. The narrators voice is fresh and honest which made me love the narrator from the start. It told through a framed story- the narrator is in the present and telling her life story about how a young Immigrant girl becomes the Ice Cream Queen and how she got to the predicament she's in now.
Jake turned 8 today! He got a slightly leaning cake but he didn't seem to mind.
The people who arrived in America with money, their stories aren't interesting. So your eldest brother, Lord Such-and-such, inherited the family estate, and you, Poor Thing, had to make your fortune in the New World instead? Please. Don't even bother me with that. #setinthe1920s #marchintoreading
What does one do when having ordered scrumptious ice cream at the local shop? Why, pull out your copy of this book, of course, for all the world to know that a true bibliophile is the one prepared for any situation 😂😂😂👍🏻. Or, the one who just goes overboard 😆😉. There's always room for a good book and ice cream 😋. Do you concur? Do you bring books into restaurants with you?
#day10 #bestnarrator My favourite narrator begins her story as a 4-year old Russian immigrant and evolves into American institution, ice-cream magnate and tabloid-darling Lillian Maria Dinello. Such a powerful, resilient and entertaining voice... "On the streets of Lower Manhattan, I got my first great education in marketing. Be shameless. Be different. And appeal to the emotions-never the head." #octphotochallenge
pickLiked this one a lot. It's a larger-than-life story, in a great summer read. I saw a little of everyone I've ever known, including myself, in Gilman's characters. Tragic, funny, romantic and dramatic, it managed to sneak up on me - so that by the end, I felt touched more than I'd realized.
Why does the word "Summer" look really wrong to me right now? I hate when that happens.... BTW I'm liking this book a lot.
pickGood read , well developed characters you love /hate
