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May was a light reading month for me due to work & work travel but I quite enjoyed this foodie mystery set in post WWII Paris with Julia Child the best friend of the MC so it‘s my May #12BooksOf2024 pick. I need to read the second book in the series one of these days.

Honorable mentions were The Seventh Power & A Tempest at Sea.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024

My final late review of May, I read this one for my bimonthly virtual foodie bookclub. It was my pick & I chose it because I have a #OnceUponABookClub box for it but I ended up reading it on Kindle Unlimited & haven‘t opened the box yet. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Fun cozy set in France after WWII with Julia Child as the friend of the MC, Tabitha, a recent expat from Detroit living with her grandfather & his partner. I enjoyed it & ⬇️

#StorySettings

The #Theater plays a major setting role in the book I just finished for my virtual foodie book club.

Got home last night after 22 hours of traveling with flight delays.😵 Crashed & slept mostly through to morning. Had to get up & run errands & now I‘m in the coffeeshop to read & do some journal catch up, but I‘m fading fast so a nap is definitely in my future.

I will be getting caught up & around to everyone‘s #5JoysFriday posts soon.💛🤗

I‘ll be on a plane for #Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon so here‘s my early #hyggehour

Due to severe travel/airport anxiety I‘m always ultra early to the airport. Today that meant a couple of hours before boarding as everything went smooth so I grabbed a bowl of tonkatsu ramen. From a sodium perspective maybe not my best choice before flying, but as tummy-warming comfort, it can‘t be beat.

Starting the tagged for my virtual foodie book club.

#SpringSkies #BkClubRead

I‘m hosting the April/May round of the blogger virtual foodie book club I belong to & the tagged book is what I selected for our #BookClubRead 🔪💙 (Mostly because I have a #OnceUponABookClub box for it! I‘m excited to start reading & open up the #OUABC gifts!) 😉🤗

This was my first cozy murder mystery. Branching out. 🎉
This was a love letter to Paris, Julia Child, and French cuisine, with murder thrown in. It was a fun, light read.

I found this on Kindle Unlimited and decided to give it a try. It‘s a cozy mystery co-starring Julia Child when she lived in Paris and wasn‘t famous yet. I thought it was a fun, quick read.

What does this Rock & Rye have to do with solving a French murder mystery? Hint: True Detroiters will call it "pop". Fun read with the added bonus of a bit of Julia Child. #MittenLitten

This book took me a bit to get into because of the writing style, but it was so good!! If you love Julia child, cooking and murder mysteries then I believe you‘d really enjoy this book. I will say I wasn‘t expecting what happened at the end, but it was still such a fantastic read

Interesting murder mystery. Now include a side character of Julia Child (especially the darn mayo) to the mains detective personality. Surprisingly take, on where the mystery went. Read like an Agatha Christie novel; no clue how things fit till the end. Mostly kept my attention. Felt a little over the place some places, ebb and flow in keeping my attention. I liked these interactions best, thou few.
Fun gifts abound. #ouabc

June was a good reading month. I got two 5 stars as the tagged and Anxious People. I would say I also really enjoyed The Kingdom of Copper as more than just a 4✨ Overall, I enjoyed all my reads and didn‘t DNF anything. 😊🥰💛

5✨ I could not put this down! I‘ve been looking forward to reading this and I‘m so glad I was able to read it. Tabitha is living with her Grandpa and Grand Uncle in Paris. Learning from her friend how to cook French cuisine to feed them. When a party that they attended ends in a murder Tabs does a little investigating of her own. I could have sworn it was a different character that did it. It has historical elements, but is a work of fiction.

Baby bump shelf/table 😅. This book is sooo good!

#StoryGraph: cozy-mystery france historical-fiction
262 pgs • 5 Stars
#OUABC Special Edition

As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, a woman is on her own journey of discovery. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, she is learning how to cook! Her sojourn is proving thoroughly delightful. That is, until they learn that a body has been found in the cellar. The murder weapon found nearby is recognizable too -a knife from Julia's kitchen.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved that Julia Child was a character. The mystery kept me turning pages and I finished it in one day. This was also a special edition from OUABC and it is beautiful!

Interesting concept. Julia Child fan fiction is what it comes across as. A neighbor of hers goes out for dinner and come home finding someone dead. With Julia‘s knife as the murder weapon. And a note from the main character in the dead person pocket. Quite a mystery. We‘ll have to see where this goes. #ouabc

This was an interesting premise and read for me, and overall I found it a fast and enjoyable read. Individually, I loved all the components of this from the food and the city descriptions to the characters. The mystery was good, but it felt a bit too rushed at the end; she just suddenly realised clues? It just seemed too easy at the end. But, it was fun and I'm looking forward to book 2.