I recently finished reading the sweetness of forgetting by kristin harmel. I would sit by myself, silently reading away, and, all of a sudden, i would run out of the room to get a tissue. Ideally, this reading time is with a good book, but a magazine or blog will work. Sweetness is a cookbook with over 190 recipes, which i dedicated to and wrote in honor of my grandparents. The sweetness of life by kathryn andrews goodreads. I love to read or live to read, not sure which one it is. Harmel is a gifted storyteller that weaves an amazing story with treads of love, hardship, secrets, second chances, heartbreak, baked goods and history. At 36, hope mckennasmith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her for a twentytwo year old, and her bank account is nearly depleted. In this story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner hope mckennasmith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life. The sweetness of forgetting chapter one the street outside the bakery window is silent and still, and in the half hour just before sunrise, as dawns narrow fingers are just reaching over the horizon, i can almost believe im the only person on earth. At thirtysix, hope mckennasmith is no stranger to bad news.
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The sweetness of forgetting is the book that made kristin harmel an international bestseller. Bakery owner hope mckennasmith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a. A friend suggested this book to my husband and myself, and prefaced it by saying that the narrator was very annoying, but eventually you got used to her. The sweetness of forgetting book by kristin harmel.
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