Monday, May 2, 2011

Mailbox Monday -- May 2nd

The reason why I love Mondays -- Mailbox Monday hosted this month by MariReads. Below are the review copies I received this week:

1) The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry. Publisher's Summary. After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna's soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning ("do no let her…") before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish.

A haunted kitchen isn't Ginny's only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka "Demanda") insists on selling their parents' house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents' belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn't sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn't know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father's photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there's only one way to get answers: cook from dead people's recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.

Thanks to Simon and Schuster!

17 comments:

  1. I loved this book - I hope you enjoy it too.

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  2. The Kitchen Daughter does sound like a good one' enjoy Kim

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  3. I hope you enjoy THE KITCHEN DAUGHTER, Kim. I've heard a lot of praise about it lately. Have it on my Kindle to read soon.

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  4. Sounds good. Read so many reviews on this one. all positive.

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  5. This book is new to me. Happy reading.

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  6. I've read good reviews of The Kitchen Daughter - hope you enjoy it!

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  7. I've heard good things about The Kitchen Daughter. Enjoy!

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  8. The Kitchen Daughter sounds good to me! Enjoy...

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  9. Enjoy your book and thanks for sharing!

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  10. Books with food themes seem to be all the rage now. Enjoy!

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  11. I've heard great things about this book. I hope you enjoy it.

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  12. Enjoy! your reading this week.

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  13. Ohh you got the K daughter, I have heard good things about that one

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  14. When I saw the title I did a double take. I thought it was Amy Tan's work...nahhhh that's the Kitchen God's Wife! Now that is another amazing read too. Will be back to see your take on this Kitchen Daughter next :)

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  15. I'd love to read The Kitchen Daughter... I've been reading great comments about it. :)

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  16. I've been reading some good reviews on this one.

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  17. I've heard a lot of good things about this book. Looking forward to your thoughts.

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