Welcome to Litsy!

@BookishMadHatter !! Thank you so much for this wonderful #AllHallowsReadSwap !

I‘m so excited for both books (they‘re perfect!) and the candies are awesome (yes, I‘m a Smarties pig). How did you manage to colour coordinate this so well? 😆 I love it all!

Thanks again to @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting another great swap! 🎃

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Cozy, gently humorous and quite thoughtful. What a cool way to showcase the important part nostalgia and food play in our lives. While at times hopeful, it never crosses into saccharine.

Lovely

From today‘s Outdoor Reading With Schnauzers session. I think novella-length is my sweet spot with Yukio Mishima. I got tired of SPRING SNOW, a novel, a fair ways before it ended and none of the shorter pieces in this collection wowed me, but I really enjoyed both the novellas included here.

Koishi & Nagare run a small cafe that also operates as a food detective agency, working to recreate formative recipes from their customers‘ past.

A wonderfully cozy follow to the 1st book. More insight into the father/daughter pair that work together, & more thoughtful discussions of how food/grief/memory/family can be entwined, & such delicious descriptions of food, I felt like I needed to find a ramen place as soon as I finished!🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

Same book- new reading place- Lombok‘s beach is also fantastic 💕 I‘ll have around 4-5 reading days ahead here at the beach- pure bliss💚
The book so far is intriguing, I‘m curious to see how the story will infold!

Yesterday we spent the day exploring Bali (temples, rice terraces, volcano) - today we are spending our last day in paradise at the poolside reading! I‘m starting this one today :)

Tomorrow we are leaving for our final week in Lombok- which will be amazing but I will miss this forest view!

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I love Banana Yoshimoto‘s transmutation of the (at least for me) mundane into joyful practice. I was never into cooking (let alone scrubbing a kitchen floor or sink) but I could certainly try to aspire to Yoshimoto‘s thoughtful prescription of approaching my kitchen as one would any place of peace, beauty and comfort. Her second story, “Moonlight Shadow,” is also worth the read, about young love cut short and how grief can be navigated.