Happy New Year

☕️𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗟𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚☕️

HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎉✨🥂

I hope everyone has a wonderful kick off to 2022! I can’t wait to see what this year has in store for us.

We are currently dealing with brutality cold temps (windchill of -50°), so I’m baking up a storm. Yesterday was cranberry orange muffins, so of course it’s #pastryandcurrentlyreading time!

I’m kicking off January with a carryover from December and a new book!

I’m currently finishing up 𝘼 𝙁𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠 with @mamas_top_shelf and @thrillofthepage after binging a lot of it while waiting to watch the ball drop. This is a story that grabbed me from the beginning and I can’t wait to see how it ends, since we each have different theories.

I’m also starting𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢 this weekend. It looks like a very moving story that takes place during one of my favorite time periods to read about.

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: In Prohibition-era New York City, Eunice Ritter, an indomitable ten-year-old girl, finds work in a sweat shop―an industrial laundry―after impairing her older brother with a blow to the head in a sibling tussle. When the diminutive girl first enters the sorting room, she encounters a giant: Gussie, the largest human being she has ever seen.

Gussie, a powerful, hard-working woman, soon becomes Eunice’s mentor and sole friend as she finds herself entrapped in the laundry’s sorting room by the Great Depression, sentenced to bring her low wages home to her alcoholic parents as penance for her childhood mistake. Then, on her sixteenth birthday, Eunice becomes pregnant and her drunken father demands that the culprit marry his daughter, trapping her anew―this time in a loveless marriage, along with a child she never wanted. Within a couple of years, Eunice makes a grave error and settles into a lonely life of drudgery that she views as her own doing. She spends decades in virtual solitude before her secret history is revealed to those from whom she has withheld her love.

💬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡?