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Our weather has been a little on the weird side this winter. Half of the week it feels like spring, the other half it's cold and raining. When gardening outside seems like a lifetime away, I like to curl up on the couch with a good book, a cup of warm tea, and a sweet treat like my Lemon Cake Doughnuts or my Citrus Sugar Cookies. The three dogs burrow in wherever they can next to me and we spend the day lost in a world written on pages.
Here are a few that I've read recently and really enjoyed. I'm affiliated with Bookshop.Org, and it's a good place to find these books if your local library doesn’t have them. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918 in a small Mexican town. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is, for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats - both human and those of nature - Simonopio’s purpose in Linares will, in time, be divined.
Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors. The story spans several generations and follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.
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