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#Rushathon

Finished this one a couple of weeks ago but it took me time to make a dish to go with it for my virtual foodie book club. I enjoyed this starting over story of a baker who leaves the city for a small town/community in Vermont. I paired it with this simple potato & spinach soup, not because it was in the book but because it‘s what I‘d want if I were staying in a repurposed sugaring shack in the fall & winter in rural Vermont.🤷🏻‍♀️⬇️

#HumbleHarvest

Three #Baking related books are on my November TBR. The tagged book I‘ve finished & my review is pending & the other two are foodie cozy mystery ARCs, one new & one I have had for a while. Hoping to finish both of them before the end of the month. 🥐🥣🧈

The early morning mood lighting of the airline lounge. 😉 First of two day trips to Hilo this week. Today to watch a group presentation & to prep for leadership graduation on Friday. Festive sugar cookie oatmilk latte & impossible breakfast sandwich to fuel me. I‘m hoping to get a chunk of this book done—it‘s for my bi-monthly virtual foodie book club.

This started out a bit slowly for me but that gave me time to really fall for the complicated characters. I loved all the food talk and it brought back memories to when I worked in professional kitchens. Great setting in Vermont, lovely book to read this time of year. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks My bongo board is almost complete!

Reading and watching Holiday Baking Championship. #wintergames2021 this will give me a third #bookspinbingo #mistletoemaniacs @Clwojick

#audiobook #audiostitching #crossstitch

Working on a Christmas present while listening to an audiobook for library book club tomorrow.

#Two4Tuesday

1. Having hot cocoa puts me in a Christmas mood.

2. I‘m looking forward to reading the library book club selection: The City Baker‘s Guide To Country Living.

This was my November #bookspin pick. I was surprised by how much I did not like this book. Maybe I was in the wrong mood for it. But I was looking forward to a cozy, fluffy romance and this was not that. I hated almost all the characters' personalities and was frustrated by their stupid decisions. I like small town settings where everyone helps each other and there's a strong sense of community. ⬇️

The night I lit the Emerson Club on fire had been perfect for making meringue.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Perfect book for the season! All the feels!

For the most part, I liked this one. I seem to find myself drawn to stories about chefs/bakers who begrudgingly end up in the country but gradually realize that rural life is what they had needed all along. 😁😁 That said- Livvy‘s self sabotaging ways got a bit tiresome. But overall I did enjoy the story.

Read this before and enjoyed it😊. Listening to it as an audiobook this time while working around the house. From the Front Porch podcast recommended this as a pairing with The Great British Bake-off Holiday Addition. Good match😊

A cozy, seasonal read to go with my Starbucks Thanksgiving blend (yum!). Loving all the dessert descriptions.

Warm, light, easy...a great read for pre-holiday evenings.

4⭐️

A story about how a baked Alaska went bad and turned into an opportunity to escape the big city for a last minute pastry chef position at a small little inn. Olivia works through her emotions as she bakes and allows it to take over her life. The importance of family and tradition is emphasized throughout and I can definitely see myself reading this again because of it.

#holiday #food #winter #romance #dog

Starting all my cozy Christmas book 😍

💚❤️🎅🤶💚❤️

#asmrrooms #harrypotterasmr #foodbook #food #christmas #festive #holidays #saturdaynight

I loved this story... It was written with warmth and heart, not to mention all the amazing desserts and a tender love story.
What a beautiful setting in Vermont for love to blossom, making new friendships, family life and lots of music reminiscent of my younger years.
It made me feel cosy imagining Thanksgiving and Christmas in Vermont and all its beauty.

I love the authors writing style and fell in love with all of the characters... except one.

This book is not great, but it is getting me VERY excited about what I should bake next! I‘m open to suggestions...

Such a warm and cozy read. Great start to the fall/ holiday season reading.

This book is like a warm blueberry muffin with a fresh cup of coffee. It‘s comforting in every sense of the word. If you like books about chefs, food, fresh starts, a city mouse trying to be a country mouse and you want to fall in love with Vermont - this is for you. Good palette cleanser. Sweet and satisfying - it‘s more Gilmore Girls than Hallmark Movie.

Brings a live mouse inside the house, releases it from her mouth and then falls asleep...

I was in the mood for a cozy escapist book, and this fit the bill perfectly. Full of endearing characters and delicious dessert descriptions. An unusual choice for summer, but the winter descriptions helped me pretend I wasn‘t oppressively hot.

Sweet.

In the acknowledgments, the author mentions her father “who loved good stories about regular people”. I think that sums this book up well! I enjoyed meeting the people in the story. Nice and relaxing read, glad a librarian had marked it on the shelf as one of her picks as it made me look at it and pick it up.

With Christmas right around the corner, the morning was filled with festive errands and then a much needed stop for hot chocolate to warm up. I especially love this spot, for the view outside the cafe‘s window. Positioned at the mouth of a canyon, it‘s been a visual treat, watching the fog creeping down the mountainside. There was even a magical moment when I looked up from my book and snow was gently falling in fat flakes.

Enjoying this cozy read and excited to see this author has another book in the works! ❤️🎄 @PenguinPublishing

Evening plans! ❤️🎄🖥💿☕️🍫 @PenguinPublishing

I enjoyed this. It was a fast read and a nice HEA. Great first novel. Looking forward to her next. (I picked it up off a Christmas book display but it is not especially Christmasy.)

Fell into an author event @ the Boston Public Library! #Boston #BostonPublicLibrary

Our Eat. Drink. Read. book group discussed this charming book last night about a big city baker making a small town her home.

This was a sweet (literally and figuratively) story about people who care about each other. It is certainly a story you have heard before - girl leaves previous life, finds new life, new job, new love...... but it was just what I needed in this year of (political) turmoil. Read this if you need a "comfort break."

Sweet and cheesy, full of descriptions of yummy food that made my mouth water. The main character made some pretty bad life choices that made me cringe, and it was a tad too long, but overall this was a charming story. And now I want to plan a cozy trip to Vermont.

hallo ihr Lieben 😊💕
Dieses Leseexemplar habe ich heute begonnen - leider gefällt mir der Schreibstil gar nicht 😥 - wer von euch kennt das Buch?
Wir wollten eigentlich morgen in aller Früh für ein paar Tage an die Ostsee fahren, aber unser Katerchen Feivel dachte, es wäre doch cool eine Biene zu fangen 🙈😢 Jetzt heißt es Tierarzt und beobachten, wenn wir Glück haben, können wir doch noch ans Meer 💕
Ich wünsche euch einen super schönen Tag!

A nice, light read for a lazy summer day - it was was okay.

You can find me on instagram at little.miss.books 😄😄😄

I woke up to this. And it's still snowing. Vermont's version of April Fools, I guess. I picked this book up after seeing the story was based in Vermont. A baker leaves a job in Boston to work at a country inn. It was light and fluffy like the pie crust she kept writing about. It was just what I needed. And the love interest was my kind of guy so that helped too. #Vermont

This was an enjoyable read albeit not very original. Excellent food descriptions & I would love to go to that Harvest dinner. Miller writes well although she does have a tendency to drop a lot of names of characters which does lead to some confusion. And there were undeveloped points. But, I went with the flow and it really didn't matter. I wish there were more recipes at the end of the book. I especially wished she posted the macaroon recipe.

#riotgrams Day 15: #booksandtreats
Books about love and apple pie are only elevated by pie of your own!

Wow I loved this book, should've been doing productive stuff on my day off, but this book came first! Made me feel so hopeful and warm inside! Read it!! Enjoy!! Happy reading!!

#riotgrams Day 2: #whereiread
Like most littens, I read everywhere, but two of my favorite places are this little corner of the couch and my bed (and that is currently unmade and very unphotogenic at this moment).

Day 29 of #ReadJanuary

Looking through my shelves, I don't think I've ever read a book that could be considered #foodiefiction

I do have this one on my tbr. I've heard some good things about it!

🍵🍯🍞📖😋 #FavoriteSnack #ReadJanuary #CurrentRead

My favorite snack while reading is usually a warm beverage and a baked good- cookies, doughnut, pastries, bread, etc.

Tonight's snack: Caramel vanilla Chai tea (with milk) and a biscuit with melted butter and honey.😍

?⏳????⏰⌛ #24in48 #Readathon #ReadAllTheBooks

I had a crazy busy weekend and wasn't able to partake in the #24in48 #Readathon, but wanted to give a big congrats and "way to go!" to all those who did! ?

Next up! #24in48

After a weeklong business trip away from home, I was craving something fun and fast to read. This fit the bill perfectly, and I read it straight through on a 4 hour flight. Big city pastry chef has a bit of a meltdown and ends up in eccentric small town Vermont, where the apple pie contest at the county fair is big business. Fair warning: this book will make you want to bake and eat all of the pies. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🍰

livve is my soul animal. after she accidentally Set's her old job on fire she's at a crossroads... so she grabs her dog Salty and goes to Vermont Where there's pie and she learns about life, relationships and the perfect Apple pie
I read this book in one sitting on a plane. it was so hard to not laugh or cry out loud.. so good

"The waltz held the feeling you get when you finish a well-loved book. It left me longing for something I couldn't name."

#country #applepie #tart #bakery #louisemiller