Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#cake
review
Texreader
post image
Pickpick

An absolutely charming book! Tanzanian Angel bakes beautiful unique amazing cakes in Kigali, #Rwanda, there with her professor husband teaching in the university. Each customer has a story and Angel learns a lot and shares a lot, and solves a problem here and there. She learns how the neighborhood prostitute got that job 😢 and how the local ladies handle female mutilation. Angel solves marital woes and so much more. She reminds me of Mma ⬇️

Texreader Ramotswe from the No. 1 Detective Agency down in #Botswana. If Angel were the main character in a series I‘d read all her books. Finally, this is post-genocide, and it‘s a reflection of how far the country has come for the peace to be secure for such a lovely novel to exist without reference to Hutus or Tutsis. A great read I would have missed but for #foodandlit. Highly recommended. 7h
Cortg Awesome! Glad you found a good read! 6h
26 likes2 comments
blurb
Texreader
post image

I‘ve been reading rather than writing reviews! So… coming soon, a raft of reviews!

CSeydel I‘ve had A Thousand Hills on my TBR for years - will look forward to your review! 1d
BooksandCoffee4Me Baking Cakes is my next read — looking forward to it! 15h
Texreader @BooksandCoffee4Me It‘s so good! I just posted my review 6h
46 likes3 comments
quote
Texreader
post image

I don‘t think I‘m keen on trying this Rwandan specialty

#Rwanda #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

ravenlee Thank you, no. 1w
IriDas Believe it or not, it‘s pretty tasty. 7d
35 likes2 comments
quote
Texreader
post image

Great quotes. First, I love that the main character Angel, the cake maker, is going through the “change.” The doctor asked Angel if she‘s flashing! Poor Angel she‘s flashing all the time. I feel for her!

And second, don‘t you just love the name Dr Rejoice?

#foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks

kspenmoll Yes to Dr. Rejoice! 1w
Catsandbooks 🇷🇼❤️ 1w
40 likes2 comments
blurb
Texreader
post image

Doing a little crafting while listening to this book

#foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks

dabbe 🤩😍🤩 1w
Leftcoastzen Very nice ! 1w
tpixie Great 🪴 1w
Catsandbooks So cute! 1w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩👍🏼💝💝💝. 1w
57 likes5 comments
blurb
Texreader
post image
Tove_Reads Liked it! 2w
Lunakay I'm halfway through and love it so far!🍰 2w
BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, adding this and moving it to top 5 of tbr list! 2w
53 likes2 stack adds3 comments
review
Bookwormjillk
post image
Pickpick

Angel is in Rwanda after the genocide while her husband works at the university. She raises her grandchildren and bakes cakes for events in order to make money. The tough topics of genocide and AIDS are not glossed over in this book, but it is full of hope and the power people have when they work together. A book I would have never read if it weren‘t for #FoodAndLit #Rwanda

Texreader Sounds sad but good 3w
72 likes2 stack adds1 comment
blurb
Bookwormjillk
post image

It‘s starting to feel like summer (although the weather says winter again next week.) Not my cat and I will enjoy it while it lasts.

Aims42 😻😻😻😻 3w
Leftcoastzen 😂😻👏 3w
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 3w
See All 7 Comments
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w
Sace 😻 3w
Read-n-Bloom 🐾🐈‍⬛🩷 3w
75 likes7 comments
quote
Bookwormjillk
post image

“We are Catholics,” explained Angel, “but in Rwanda we‘re simply Christians. I‘m nervous of attending just one church here, of listening to just one priest. Because how can we know what is in the priest‘s heart after so many showed that love and peace were only words in their mouths?” #FoodAndLit #Rwanda