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I completed the #Booked2022 Challenge! HUZZAH!! I likely wouldn't have found Voices or The Prettiest Star without these prompts, so thank you! They were some of the better books I read this year. Now on to 2023.

❄2 In a Dark, Dark Wood #TitleRepeatsItself

🌸8 Voices From Chernobyl #WrittenByAJournalist

☀13 Butterflies in November #IncludesARecipe

🍁19 Madam #DarkAcademiaNovel
🍁24 The Prettiest Star #MCHasAIDS

This is a really good book and somewhat of a green witch primer. It has loads of ideas and spells and spell bags, like the sweet dream pillow that I plan on making soon 🧙🏻
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Whimsical, funny, and filled with beautiful writing. I love magical realism, but this one was almost a little too over-the-top at times. I felt kind of let down by the end, but really enjoyed this book for the most part.

My #IncludesARecipe book for #Booked2022… it contains several of them, and I‘m planning to try a couple of Tita‘s recipes myself. 😋

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

#1001Books

I finished this on my walk today. Parker has always dreamed of opening a winery and when her aunt leaves her an inheritance, she finally can. But on opening day a food critic is murdered. Parker sets out to solve the crime and save her dream. It also has a couple of recipes and wine pairings. Book 2 done for #20in4 readathon. @Andrew65 #Booked2022 #IncludesARecipe @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage My #BookSpin book for August. @TheAromaofBooks

It‘s time to start thinking about Quarter 3 drawing for #Booked2022
Here‘s the link: https://forms.gle/bAMN41GcdRfrHWTQ9
You have until October 3 to fill out the form, so no pressure 🥰

We love seeing your picks so keeping reading, tagging and posting xx @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

This was OK but it didn‘t really capture me. A woman with love of cooking, a wonderful relationship, and a hope to be a parent suddenly learns that she has a brain aneurysm that needs serious surgery and ongoing treatment. She shifts among her relationships, what‘s happening in her own body and the sometimes frightening treatments, and the foods that sustain her through it.
#Booked2022 #includesarecipe
#Nonfiction2022 #BasketCase

Read this for #booked2022 #includesarecipe 😊
Great little book, I enjoyed it. So happy to see that the author is doing well these days after such an unexpected and traumatic health scare ♥️ Only side effect: made me wish I enjoyed cooking more at this point in my life 😂
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The author‘s husband dies unexpectedly and too soon. Their young son finds him in his last moments. And his beloved wife, now a widow, processes these events and figures out how to go on alone. Yup, super emotional. And absolutely beautifully written. Alexander is a poet and professor. She knows the craft of writing. And it shows. Loved every word of this!

Full review https://www.TheBibliophage.com #thebibliophage2022 #booked2022 #includesarecipe

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I really enjoyed this book and thought it was a good story with the narrative of problems facing people leaving the Caribbean islands and going to the U.K./U.S
I don‘t have a picture of a black cake - but here‘s my daughter‘s 21st cake 😁 it‘s family party tonight and I sneak read the end of this book in the bath this afternoon before chaos descends.

I loved this! The author was the restaurant critic of the New York Times in the early/mid Nineties. She ends up wearing disguises in order not to be recognised and it‘s so interesting how she is treated when the restaurants don‘t know who she is. The book also includes some of her actual reviews alongside the back story of how she fared at each visit.

Thanks for sending it to me Cindy!

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