the second, was partially because of a book club, but also because i was looking for a way to heal after my own grandmother had passed. The Wallaces don’t comment on my hibernation, and I find meal trays on the kitchen counter—bless them.

My eyes struggle to adjust, trading palm trees and peach stucco for weathered brick and steepled churches—just like the tiny stone parish next door. However, something about this book just didn't wow me the way that it seems to have wowed everyone else? For hours, I pushed past every hazard sign my body threw out, crossing neighborhood boundaries, until dinnertime came and went. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.Happening right now—a Miami girl in an English club listening to an English band, sitting on an English boy’s lap, his sweater warm around me. I’d flopped onto her bed the same way I always had, except now, an enormous duffel bag swallowed Stef’s area rug.

But it doesn’t stop one half of me from wanting to beat my fists against the wall, screaming the feral sounds I’ve had echoing in my mind all day. And while I think my expectations were a little too high as I kinda got a little disappointed with this book. She finds that her clothes are not weather appropriate, the inn’s baker is not willing to let her incorporate some of her recipes, and she feels like she’s making mistake after mistake.Here’s my short review of my last read for 2020, A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey. I just loved her so much and found myself relating to her and her struggles every now and then, which made this read even more of a hit, for me.

And another small snapshot of Abuela I took last year, her slight frame topped with a jaunty crop of graying black hair, smiling over her simple breakfast of café con leche and pan tostado. His mum’s early-onset (FTD) Dementia gives Orion a unique outlook––he never asks too much of the world, accepting what he can’t control.I adored the side-characters, Jules in particular, and loved the addition of music and Spanish language throughout— esto fue hermoso. At first, she hates everything— the cold weather, a not-so-good impression with Polly, the inn’s baker, and constant worrying about La Paloma. I drafted this review around last week of December, but I got distracted with Kdramas (Mr Queen and Uncanny Counter! It sounds like spending the last half hour with me has caused her accent to lean southwest a little.