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Bookwormjillk
Pearly Everlasting: A Novel | Tammy Armstrong
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Pickpick

I‘m still working on #FoodAndLit Canada. Pearly Everlasting is about a girl who rescues her brother who just happens to be a bear. It was a good listen! Set in New Brunswick during the Great Depression- it would have made a great family road trip audiobook.

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PageShifter
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I have been so happy to check your cookings for the #FoodandLit
What are the odds that #Finland is your country on my b-day month?! I love that.

I baked today Finnish cinnamon rolls (korvapuusti) and Finnish Archipelago Bread (saaristolaisleipä). Finnish cinnamon rolls are something that my grandmother always baked and when I was sick, she came and took care of me and she baked with me. They are THE buns to me, I love cinnamon so much.

Dilara Oh they all look delicious - and like they're a lot of work! 😁 14h
TheSpineView They look yummy!! I can almost smell them! 11h
Texreader Oh how fantastic! Everything looks so good. What lovely memories too! Happy bday month!! 11h
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Deblovestoread Look yummy! I love cinnamon, too. And I‘m very interested in the bread. 9h
AnnCrystal 🥳 Happy Birthday Month 😋💝. 8h
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 6h
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Dilara
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Last Sunday, I made salmon soup (very comforting) with rye crackers (probably thinner & browner than in the instructions, but when still warm from the oven, they're nicer than shop-bought ones) and rossoli, a beetroot, cooked carrot and potato salad that apparently is a Christmas staple (SO's judgment was “very German and quite nice“ 😏 😂)
#Finland #FoodandLit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Texreader I‘m so impressed!! 15h
DogMomIrene That salad looks impressive! 😋 11h
PageShifter Yep rossoli is for the Christmas 😀 10h
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Texreader
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Pickpick

Very very sweet stories all variations on some themes: 1) a very poor family cannot afford anything for Christmas and something happens that means the family can have traditional Christmas food and the kids gifts, and 2) there‘s been some rift in the family (normally over inheritance of land) and something happens to heal the rift. I would have preferred some diversity in themes. Short and good for a low-anxiety read. ⬇️

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Dilara
Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart | Betje Wolff, Aagje Deken
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Well I know what I want to read for #FoodandLit #Netherlands: the French translation of the tagged book. There was an article about the 2 female authors here: https://www.liberation.fr/culture/livres/elisabeth-wolff-et-agatha-deken-quatre-...
But it looks like the book's OCR isn't ready so I'd have to read the PDF of the 1787 print, and I'm not sure I'm ready for this😅
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

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Texreader
The Man Who Died | Antti Tuomainen
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Pickpick

This is an oddly entertaining and satisfying murder mystery—the victim performing his own investigation to find his murderer while trying to save his organic mushroom business against a fierce competitor in this quiet Finnish hamlet. Jaakko has been poisoned over a long period of time such that he became used to it while it damaged all of his internal organs. He‘s on borrowed time. And does he ever make use of it. There are only two suspects ⬇️

Texreader but the ending is still a big surprise. And he has only one real goal other than seeing his murderer come to justice—saving his little business, a full time job given the snazzy new mushroom business down the road with its spanking new equipment and outbidding all his employees to come work there. While not rollicking funny it‘s truly entertaining. I found myself rooting for Jaakko even when he wasn‘t making the best decisions. Will he survive? ⬇️ 4d
Texreader Sadly no. He really is the victim of a murder (the title of the book is a dead giveaway). But before he goes, he‘s going to take care of business. I‘d really like to read more by this author if his books have been translated and made available in the US. #Finland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks #letterM #Christmasatoz #xmaschacha #wintergames @StayCurious (edited) 4d
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LiseWorks
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Pickpick

I really liked this book. The main character was a little annoying at times with her antics, but overall, I was hoping she would clue in. #WinterGames24 #TBWList #FoodandLit #ReadAway24 #MidWeekMuddle #HolidayBookDragons @TheAromaofBooks @StayCurious @Catsandbooks @Texreader @DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 4d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4d
Andrew65 Excellent ☃️☃️☃️ I love the cover, makes me want to read it. 2d
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Texreader
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When your Finnish sister-in-law and her mother agree your attempt at a Finnish recipe is spot-on. 🎉🎊

#Finland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

TheBookHippie ♥️👏🏻♥️ 5d
lil1inblue 💙🤍💙 5d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 5d
AnnCrystal 🥳😋😎👍💝. 5d
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Bookworm54
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Also made some Finnish Christmas cookies (Joulupiparit) and had to freeze half the dough because damn that‘s a lot of cookies 😂

#Finland #FoodAndLit

lil1inblue 💙🤍💙 5d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 5d
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Dilara
Meti | Meeri Rapi, Aapo Rapi
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Another Finnish graphic work, this time about the author's grandmother. She tells her grandson about her life and her family in 20th-century #Finland - and then writes it down because he never stays long enough to hear all, despite all the coffee and pastries she serves him...
Clearly, they had a hard, hand-to-mouth life for quite a long time. This is quite a bittersweet book.

#Finland #FoodandLit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Dilara And I made pulla - Finnish cardamom-flavoured buns, using the recipe from the Moomin cookbook. Very nice. Other half called them “hot cross buns without the annoying bits“. 6d
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