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Over on Instagram Sarah Addison Allen is telling a holiday story one day at a time starting with today. How cool is that y‘all?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8VyCgt6nX/?utm_medium=copy_link

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”

I had to use this quote being from Mississippi ❤️

#GratefulHarvest
#Enchanted ✨🌟💫

What a lovely, quiet, calming mug of warm tea sort of a book. I enjoyed every minute of it and understand why it is so beloved by so many. Happy I finally got around to reading this one! Mollie enjoyed cuddling up to finish it too! #BookspinBingo #Doublespin #MountTBR @TheAromaofBooks

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Misty, you are too sweet! You just made my week. Thank you so much!! I‘m so excited to read this 💚

I‘m not reading as much as I would like, but this book is so good!! Thank you @Elizabeth2 😘 I may have to buy all of her books!

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches” 🍑

Mississippi girl here 🙋🏻‍♀️ and front porch reading is the best! 🧡🍑🍂📚

1) visiting Texas and meeting Sher @Eggs
2) Garden Spells, still reading it!
3) Tris from Divergent 🙄 and I would like to add Bella from Twilight 🙄 oh and Anastasia from Fifty Shades!!
4) a special person in my life 💙

#WondrousWednesday

I tag everyone who hasn‘t played!!

#LittensDressedInBlood Today's prompt is I Put On A Spell On You

A perfect read for those that love magic, and a great pick if you want to participate in all the October Readathons but don't love horror. Sarah Addison Allen is one of my favorite writers, and her stories are just lovely.

#QuotsySep21 #oak

So descriptive 🍃💚

“The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.”

The #BasicWitch swap is my favorite swap (other than my own #HauntedHollowSwap 😉)

I look forward to this swap all year and I may have already started shopping for it. 🤫😆

Come join the fun! 🖤🌛🌝🌜🖤

Check out Jenni or Katie‘s post for all the details!

If you enjoy Sarah Addison Allen‘s books check out her Facebook page. Most Sundays she posts a short story and invites readers to continue it.

Thank you so much Elizabeth!! You made my day! I can‘t wait to read all about the Waverley‘s and their special apple 🍎 tree!! You are the sweetest!! 💞😘

#LitsyLove

**STRONG PICK** review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#garden-spells-waverley-family-1

#QuotsyJul22

I love this book & it‘s always good for prompts about nature, like #grass 💚

“…Bay spent several hours every day lying on the grass by the apple tree. When Sydney asked her why, she said she was just trying to figure something out.”

1. Oh yeah, quite a few. The ones I reread the most would have to be my Wheel Of Time series, my Dame Agatha books & my Phryne Fisher series. Lots more though, I‘m a big rereader!🙌
2. Yes. I‘m a total cover snob. But I do give the ugly ones a chance if it sounds intriguing🧐
3. The tagged book is one of a few that‘s nature based. I really love earth magic stories🌿🌳🍂
#ThoughtfulThursday

Tagging @CarolynM @Eggs @Cinfhen

An enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it. . . .it bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers are imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures. This author‘s books are #mesmerizing #maycharacters @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

1. I‘ve read Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen many times and also the Tales of the City series by Armistad Maupin again and again since college.
2. Cover art is a factor if I am browsing at a book store and something grabs me.
@MoonWitch94 #thoughtfulthursday

#WindsOfMarch The Waverley sisters know that #Planting the right things in their garden and in people's lives can help them.
@Eggs

Absolutely adored all the magical imagery, delicious flavors, relatable emotions & lingering smells that bubbled and erupted from Sarah Addison Allen‘s writing in Garden Spells. This was a perfectly enchanting mixture of adult fiction & magical realism with a dash of romance and I enjoyed every bit of it. The added theme of food/cooking might have won a few bonus points from me too🍎

I enjoyed this. It has strong Practical Magic vibes, and I really love this author‘s writing and her characters. Can‘t wait to read the sequel. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

On my #bookquilt because I love Sarah Addison Allen and magic!

Bk28 & final book for #Scarathlon2020 #Screamathon2020 #Pageathon #Thrilloween #Sbooktober #TrickOrTreadathon #GothicReadathon #BookishishBingo #Supernaturalathon #RockyHorrorathon #ReadLikeHellathon #Strangeathon #Booathon #Sherlockathon & #Slaughterthon is done! Ive had a blast & have read more than I‘ve done in ages. My next post will be a complete wrap up with stats etc. I‘ve finished up with a reread of a witchy fave. 1,956pts #TeamSlaughter

A wonderful story celebrating home, sisterhood and family, love, commitment, resilience, magic, gardening, and legacy. I am overjoyed by Allen's novels and the empowerment she brings to my afternoons. I cannot wait to read more of her work! Which would you recommend? Novels at my library: 'Lost Lake,' 'Thr Firefly Dance,' 'The Sugar Queen,' 'The Girl who Chased the Moon,' and 'First Frost.'

When your husband brings home something special from the library just for you 😍

@wanderinglynn -- !!!!!! Too excited

My #basicwitchswap style- I think my style is fairly consistent 😊 also some books I LOVE with witches. #basicwitchswap

I love a little magic mixed into a story, and this one was great! Claire and Syndey deal very differently with the magic that has always been part of their family, but learn to accept each other and embrace the magic.
#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

1. Last night, my 2 best friends from college came over, and we sat on my deck and ate and drank and laughed for hours. My soul got filled.
2. My husband and son, our abundance, the 3 beautiful books I have out.
@LitsyBuddyRead @Mermaid82 @romanticreads

#magicalMay May 9 & 10: magical & Mother‘s Day

Since I missed yesterday, it‘s a twofer. Sarah Addison Allen‘s books all have magical aspects and most of the books are at their heart about families, and particularly mothers.

A lovely spring read.

1. Tagged. I think because it‘s gardening.
2. Chocolate. I like the little Reese‘s mini eggs (I don‘t even know if they still make them. I don‘t buy holiday candy)
3. I don‘t really have one. For Spring I think it‘s tulips. I love seeing them blooming on my walks.
4. The bananagrams game on my table 😂

#friyayintro

1. Garden Spells
2. Cadbury mini-eggs
4. 🌷 🌷 Tulips
3. My Van tennis shoes

1. Any earth witchy book does but this in particular.🍎
2. A Red Tulip Humpty Dumpty Egg. Has to be Red Tulip, no pretenders allowed! Got one every year as a kid then my kids got one every year. Still do🌷
3. Anything with a scent really, but I have a soft spot for wisterias.💜
4. My library. Makes me happy every day.🌼

#FriYayIntro

#bloomingbibliophiles

April 4: garden - one of my favorite books 💜

My neighbor handed this book to me over our fence and, even though I probably wouldn't have picked it up normally, I read it and enjoyed it.

I hope you have friendly neighbors lending you books during this time and that we are back to normal soon.

I‘ve read a couple of books by this author and loved them. I haven‘t read this one, but it‘s on my #TBR!
#mystical #magnificentmarch

#greencover #magnificentmarch @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

All of Sarah Addison Allen‘s novels have a
#magical setting in a most delightful way

#newyearnewyou

I'm a sucker for magical realism, & Sarah Addison Allen is the best, IMO. I love all of her books, but I think I'll pick Garden Spells as my favorite.

A lot late but I had to play on this one:
1. Garden Spells
2. Surely there was a Supernatural movie (Dean loves pie!)
3. American Pie by Don McLean

@JoScho #manicmonday

Sarah Addison Allen‘s stories transcend the laws of nature. They are magically supernatural

#supernatural
#fallisbooked
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

This felt like Practical Magic lite. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't terribly compelling.

#ChillingPhotoChallenge #day2 #Spell I love to read witchy books,especially ones full of earth magic & growing things. Books like Practical Magic,The Sparrow Sisters,A Discovery Of Witches & especially this book by Sarah Addison Allen. It‘s full of life & love & the smell of rich earth & flowers.If you haven‘t read it,you need to & then you can fall in love with the Waverleys & their apple tree. #Scareathlon 2points #PointsTotal-11 #TeamSlaughter

The Waverley gardens are filled with magic apples and edible #flowers imbued with special powers

#selfimprovementseptember

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Nice light end of summer read about the Waverley family who have always possessed strange gifts. I enjoyed the relationship between sisters, Claire & Sydney who try to connect for the first time after Sydney chooses to return to her hometown to escape a dark part of her life. I liked quirky characters, esp. Evanelle and the apple tree. I wasn‘t as interested in the old frenemies like Emma. I‘m not going to read the sequel as it is 9 years later.

The Waverly women each have a special gift. Their backyard has a garden whose plants have magical side effects. Their yard also has a strange apple tree. Eating an apple from this tree will reveal to the eater the biggest event of their lives- good or bad.
The story was cute and it was a fast read. A perfect beach book.

Love Sarah Addison Allen books for easy, fulfilling reads! This is my favorite so far - magical realism, family secrets, and some character growth. Also enjoyed the southern, small-town setting that distinctly makes these books Addison Allen‘s.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Echhhhh this reading slump. So I think this was a victim of "just not right for me but probably really perfect for someone else." Pros: the writing, the apple tree concept. Cons: the unoriginal story, the Emma "plotline", the fact it was unchallenging and watered down

For here you are, standing there, loving me
Whether or not you should
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good🎶🎶

Can Claire open her heart to feel the love she deserves? ❤️ this book and this song

#somethinggood #ayupaugust @Cinfhen @squirrelbrain

Image: Pinterest

#audiopuzzling!!!

#JazzyJune #Gardens
@Eggs

#gardens #jazzyjune