Welcome to Litsy!

Two pages of notes front and back, a few dozen tabs and this book is finally done… I was very much NOT the intended audience for this book and it shows in my notes.

Not to complain, but the margins in my book are too small for my notes… so I now have a yellow notepad to be snarky on.
One point of complaint…. There is too much untranslated French in here. I‘m creating a personal glossary for the book… since in my infinite wisdom, I took Spanish in school, not French.

#Chocolate #Feelinthelove

Starting next for the #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge.

#AudreyHorne: Someone not afraid to appear weird.

#TPRC

Repost for @MaleficentBookDragon

@MaleficentBookDragon will be hosting the #jolabokaflodswap again this year if the interest is there.

Sign ups will open this week.

I will be hosting the #jolabokaflodswap again this year if the interest is there.
I‘ll open the signups this week.

One of my favorite films🍫🍩. Once you start watching, you will want to devour chocolate for #Lunch
#SchoolSpirit

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. Nope
2. My first thought went to books focused around chocolate or yummy food
Thanks @Kshakal @TheSpineView #two4tuesday

I prefer Belgian chocolate. Specifically 70% dark.

Halloween chocolate treat would have to be coffee crisp or Mars they're tied for me.
#nationalchocolateday

1. Tagged
2. Dark
3. Reese‘s peanut butter pumpkins

Favorite chocolate - Ghirardelli 72%

Favorite Halloween candy -
Child - 3 musketeers
Young adult - twix
Adult - mini crunch bar
And Take 5 as a runner up since it didn't exist when I was a kid.

#nationalchocolateday
New follower tag @Milena

🍫. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
☕. Hershey's Dark Chocolate, Lindt
🍪. Reese's, Hershey's Special Dark
*Judging by all the Reese's answers I think I buying stock could be a smart financial decision.

@WildAlaskaBibliophile #NationalChocolateDay

A favorite 🤩 🥰

#ChocolateDay

#SummerSpecial

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘m not a technical wizard so I‘m using the original photo for #WondrousWednesday

1. Tagged. The first that came to my mind

2. Mostly anything with chocolate and that includes the beverage, hit chocolate 🍫

Thanks for tagging me @Eggs

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Thanks for the tag @RaeLovesToRead !

1) Thinking of books I've actually read with dessert/coffee in the title, it's Chocolat and Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

2) Can't go wrong with a warm fudgy brownie topped with ice cream, or a decadent chocolate chip skillet cookie. But also sticky toffee pudding & sago pudding with gula melaka (palm sugar) & chocolate batik cake, the latter two popular Malaysian desserts. Yum!

#NationalChocolateCakeDay #JanuaryJazz @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Not been able to read much as I‘ve had a virus which has floored me for weeks. Managed to finish this last night and absolutely loved it!!
Is the film worth a watch?

Chocolate is one of my favorite indulgences. This is my favorite book featuring chocolate.

#WinterReadathon
#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge

I have to agree with @CoffeeNBooks – chocolate covered pretzels are yummy! My faves are these dark chocolate ones from Trader Joe‘s. The perfect reading snack!

#winterreadathondailychallenge

Mmmmmm salivary response 🤤
(Also, love the tagged book & film)

This and tiramisu are 2 favorites. I‘ve made and served decadent mousse many times over the years…

#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

#cooking #novembernarrative @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

One day left to sign up for this year's #jolabokaflodswap

I will be closing sign ups tomorrow and get to work on making matches.

We have 130 people participating in a lot of different countries!

Sign up here-
https://forms.gle/uJLQHJY9re1byWiz8

Such a favorite tradition I do it for my kid! Sign ups open til 11.19- see @MaleficentBookDragon for more info!

Well, the #AllHallowsEveSwap was a great success! If my spreadsheet is correct we've had no tricks and only treats this year!!! If I missed it and you have not received your gifts, let me know.

Now, on to Christmas. I know , I hate to leave Halloween too, but I am excited for this year's #JolabokaflodSwap. Sign Ups are open until Nov. 19th so I can get out the matches by Thanksgiving weekend.

Sign up here-
https://forms.gle/ZHwPQWJ8vDTgDnZA6

Harris wrote a very magical book that hooked me from the opening paragraph with its lush descriptions and details.

The characters were an interesting mix of views and traits that were real and fantastical within the word building of this sleepy town.

#alphabetgame #letterC

#AlphabetGame
#LetterC

Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The book, the story, the film, the acting, the actors, everything so perfect.

Some of my favorite chocolate titles, with a background of my favorite chocolate food: ganache!!

#ChocolateDay #JulyJam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#Ithadtobeyou

19. Chocolate

Loved the movie, but I hated the book 🙈

#Candy #ItHadToBeYou
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk moved to the small, conservative town of Lansquenet at the beginning of Lent and opens a chocolaterie, much to the frustration of the local priest Reynaud and his followers.
Full of characters from the ball-busting Armande to the abused Josephine, the proud Roux and the gentle Guillaume, Vianne gathers a new family around her and changes their lives with her strength, her chocolate, and her magic.

This book is CHOC-full of treats. 😏 🍫

#haunted October 2021 day 30: treats @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Went to library to pick up my summer reading program goodies I earned. 🎉📚 And got the tagged because while I‘ve seen the movie, I‘ve never read the book. #supportyourlibrary

#MayCharacters Vianne #Migrates to a new place whenever the Wind lets her know it's time to move on.
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#MoviesinApril

So a much more riske choice, I pick Chocolat. Love of chocolate is definitely found in both film and book. 😉 🍫 ❤️

I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would! This whole time I thought it was a romance and it was so much more than that! I blame the movie for making me think that way. JH's writing is spectacular.

I dont see how anyone can celebrate dying...You dont, I told her. Life is what you celebrate. All of itm Even its end.

...returning to a city where you lived before is like coming home to an old friend.

Places all have their own characters...

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

...Id also say that you are entitled to your beliefs . As long as they make you happy.

I dont thing there is such a thing as a good or bad Christian. Only good or bad people.

Now making chocolate is a different matter.Oh, some skill is required. A certain lightness of touch, speed, a patience...But the formula remains the same every time. It is safe. Harmless.

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

...our breath made pale dragons in the still air.

I slept poorly inside a kaleidoscope of dreams...

Everything has a soul

....Chocolate curls, white buttons with colored vermicelli, pain d-epices with gilded edging, marzipan fruits in their nests of ruffled paper, peanut brittle, clusters, cracknells, assorted misshapes in half kilo boxes....

[what a lovely picture] *mouth water*

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crash-crash-crashing among the hazels and nougatines...

NTS: Soutane