Book review and a favor

8.30.2012

Favor first.  My photo is featured here {Ni Hao Y'all, wonderful photography blog} and is up for August winner--I'd love your vote! I'm crazy proud (and slightly confused) that this somehow came out of my camera.

Now..book review.  The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel.


I loved this book!  It was wonderful, sad, heartwarming, heart breaking, charming, interesting, and will make you want to find out your family's history, bake pastries, and fall in love.  Sweet book- worth putting on your "to read" list.

Here is the publisher's book description if you're interested:

"At thirty-six , Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her for a twenty-two year old, and her bank account is nearly depleted. Her own dreams of becoming a lawyer long gone, she’s running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen. Now, Hope’s beloved French-born grandmother Mamie, who wowed the Cape with her fabulous pastries for more than fifty years, is drifting away into a haze of Alzheimer’s. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about the past, the secrets she has held on to for so many years will soon be lost forever. Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in Paris. And then, arming her with a scrawled list of names, she sends Hope to France to uncover a seventy-year-old mystery.

Hope’s emotional journey takes her through the bakeries of Paris and three religious traditions, all guided by Mamie’s fairy tales and the sweet tastes of home. As Hope pieces together her family’s history, she finds horrific Holocaust stories mixed with powerful testimonies of her family’s will to survive in a world gone mad. And to reunite two lovers torn apart by terror, all she’ll need is a dash of courage, and the belief that God exists everywhere, even in cake. . . ."

17 comments:

  1. I am heading over to vote right now for you and your photo! I am definitely going to put this book on my list! You always have the best reading recommendations! I plan on finishing Gone Girl this weekend!

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  2. ummm clearly I voted for you! You go girl ;) That photo really is awesome. I'll definitely be adding this book to my reading list. You rae quickly becoming my go-to for book recs!

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  3. Wow the book sounds great! Im going to need to add it to my list!!! And I am headed over now to vote ;) Happy Thursday beautiful!

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  4. Of course I voted and it looks like you are in the lead!!!! yahooooo!!! Keep me posted!!! That picture is your ticket to fame and fortune! ;)
    Shanna

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  5. I voted, neat picture!!!!!
    And the book sounds really good!

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  6. I need a book for this weekend! I am def going to pick it up!

    Voted for you!

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  7. I just finished another book last night (2 this week, who am I?) and added it to Goodreads...so then I started stalking your Goodreads shelf at like 1 in the morning, haha! I'll add this to my list.

    I voted!

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  8. looove book reviews!! thanks for writing - im def noting this one ;)

    great blog, wanna follow each other??

    xxo!
    www.richlittle-poorgirl.blogspot.com

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  9. Awesome photo! I just voted for you! :)
    Cheers,
    Sara

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  10. Beautiful picture - just voted for you!! :)

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  11. I voted for you. Awesome picture!

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  12. Of course I voted for you- LOVE that picture :)

    That book sounds great...may just have to add it to my list!

    Happy almost Friday, friend!

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  13. I am putting that in my amazon cart!! Of course I am voting for you

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  14. Just voted, that pic is AMAZING! Even if you didn't ask me, I would have voted for yours :)

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  15. Hi! I voted for you, great picture!

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  16. You have my vote....This books sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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