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Five Quarters Of The Orange
Five Quarters Of The Orange | Joanne Harris
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Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the crperie - and lets her memory play strange games. As her nephew attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes Framboise has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers, memories of a disturbed childhood during the German Occupation flood back, and expose a past full of betrayal, blackmail and lies.
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JMPemberton
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Found this book in the holiday rental I‘m staying at. OMG it is amazing. Characterisation is off the charts, as is scene setting. I really feel for the main characters because of how well their back stories are laid out. Lovely piece of historical fiction set in a small French town during German Occupation in WW2. I‘ve not read Chocolat (the authors famous book) but I‘m going to seek it out now. I predict a 5 star read here.

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julieclair
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Eggs Great cover! 2y
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Sapphire
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Pickpick

Both hubby and I fully appreciated this book. I chose Berry Clafoutis from the foods mentioned in the novel. #foodandlit #foodandlit2022 I admit, I wasn‘t going to but after finishing, I did order the authors family cookbook.

Catsandbooks Oh wow!! Looks fabulous! 2y
Texreader Dang that looks so good. How was it? 2y
Sapphire So good! And really easy. 2y
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Sapphire
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Really enjoying the tagged book for #foodandlit #france. It has beautiful prose and gorgeous scenery despite the depressing topics of war, poverty, and illness. But also so many food references to choose from to make. While I was considering a galette Breton or a fish stew, right now I am leaning toward Berry Clafoutis! Hope I finish in time to cook before the end of the month as I am traveling next weekend.

Catsandbooks Yum!! 2y
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Sapphire
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Mother was a force of nature, bestowing her favors as she pleased, leaving no insight as to the workings of her peculiar logic

CoffeeNBooks This is next on my TBR stack! Have you read the Chocolat series? 2y
Sapphire @CoffeeNBooks I have not. I have heard of it for years. Not sure why I never picked it up. 2y
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CoffeeNBooks
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jdiehr I have this one on my TBR shelf 2y
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DebinHawaii
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#GratefulHarvest

Four #Orange titled books from my stacks. I have read the tagged book & the other three are in my #TBR 🍊🧡🍊

Jensol77 Orange is the New Black & Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit are both recommended! 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty covers 🧡🖤 3y
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Edecmcl
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It took a while to get into it but the last third was great.

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MayJasper
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Cuilin
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Loved this book. #foodoncover #Magicalmaynia

Eggs Gorgeous 5y
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dodgygothbint
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Final entry for #7Days7Books #7Tage7Buecher

Joanne Harris is another of my absolute favourite authors. I love the unsettling & unexpected creepiness in her writing, as well as the joyfulness, and the appreciation of the everyday magic of food! All her books are amazing, but this one stuck in my mind for weeks after I finished reading.

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HotTeaGoodBooks
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I originally received this as an ARC and then my work life started to impede my ability to participate in such things in the way I once did. So I just now got to this while recovering from surgery. I‘m over half way through and enjoying it so much. It is very well written and engaging despite having a quite somber story line. Will definitely finish this before heading back to work at the end of the week.

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HotTeaGoodBooks
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Recovering from surgery last week and sick with bronchial ick. And possibly looking at another surgery next week. I‘m tired and wiped out. Lots of reading, Litsy, Goodreads, and YouTube going on. And holding cats. This is Miss. Pearl Girl. She has a misery too. Little bit of cold in her eye. So we convalesce together. I looked down and she was doing a big blep. #yougogirl #ugh #tootiredtoshower #ugh

Jerdencon Feel better 6y
Briary At least you have the best cuddle buddy.. But sounds pretty rough otherwise, speedy recovery for both of you 💪 6y
Smrloomis Hope you feel better soon 😣🤞🏽! 6y
rretzler 😻 5y
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Sassy_Steph

This was good, but again I was too ambitious and ran out of reading time!!

PurpleyPumpkin Yes, this was a very good book! Hopefully, you can get back to it soon. 😉 6y
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Sassy_Steph

Someone recommended this book to me years ago but it was never available in store when I would check! Just started it and oh my goodness it‘s beautiful, I can‘t explain it, it‘s just so beautiful, I‘m only on chapter 2, must go to work today but I wish I could just step in this book!

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BarbaraJean
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Here‘s my #fivestack—I wanted to do a stack of five books with “five” in the title, but I discovered that I don‘t have five of those. So I went a different direction... 😁 #readingresolutions

monalyisha This makes me want to sing Mambo # 5. 😂 7y
BarbaraJean @monalyisha “A little bit of Courtenay in my life, a little bit of Tolkien by my side...” It works so well! 😂😂 7y
monalyisha @BarbaraJean Hahaha! Perfect!!! 7y
Linsy Love this! 7y
BookishMe 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 7y
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mrp27
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#readingresolutions #orange

I read Chocolat and The Girl With No Shadow years ago and I really enjoyed them. It's high time I read another Harris novel and this title is on my list.

Ms_T I also read Chocolat years ago and I felt so grown up! 😂 7y
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ScorpioBookDreams
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Got this signed first edition from eBay for Qb.49!!

slategreyskies I really loved this book!! :) 7y
Sarah83 You are really a lucky one 🤗 7y
BeckyLeJ This is my favorite book by Harris! 7y
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DeborahSmall Lovely xx 7y
ScorpioBookDreams @slategreyskies @BeckyLeJ I loved it when I read it so had to buy this copy 💕 7y
ScorpioBookDreams @slategreyskies @BeckyLeJ I loved it when I read it so had to buy this copy 💕 7y
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LazyLibrary
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When it's Christmas time and you live in New York ❤️🍊#illtakesomesunshine #thebest

OrangeMooseReads I had a “grandma” (I don‘t know how or if she was related but she was always grandma) that lived in Washington state and would send us a box of apples every year for Christmas. 7y
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Jas16
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This book has served me well in prompts about fruit and now #Novemberbythenumbers

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MrsMalaprop
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MrsMalaprop Also fits the bill for #🤷‍♀️ #nov📚📷 @RealLifeReading in that I can‘t remember much about this book. I think I liked it 🤷‍♀️? 7y
Jeg Glad that happens to you too @MrsMalaprop .😊 7y
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Bookish.Leftist.Auntie
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So... I've filled my shelves and now need another one. That didn't deter me from the - fill a bag for $5.99 book sale, or from buying another elephant, of course. Buying books makes me happy! 😁📚🔖🤓

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MayJasper
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Set in occupied France during the second world war, the orange is used to torment. A sad, disturbing read but war should be both.
#fruit #maybookflowers
@RealLifeReading

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Jas16
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This one has already been used this morning but I really do not have many books with #fruit on the cover or in the title. Or at least that I could find this morning without being late to work. #maybookflowers

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avalinah
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Mehso-so

Wish I could remember more about this #fruit one! It's just that I read it so long ago. I remember it was okay, but evidently not very memorable.
#MayBookFlowers

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wen4blu
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Found one #fruit in the tbr pile. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

RaimeyGallant Love that cover. 8y
Sydsavvy Oh I forgot about that book- great discussion for Book club! 8y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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Orange, peach or strawberry, anyone? 🍊🍑🍓
#17rainbowbooks #orangesorotherfruit #orangeorotherfruit
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Cinfhen Nice selection 💜 8y
Marchpane Man, I love that Revenge cover 🍓 8y
howjessicareads You have so many!! 8y
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paradise_found92
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So beyond excited to start this novel! #joanneharris #secondhandbooks #fivequartersoftheorange

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mhillis
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October 🍁🍂🍁🍂
I love Joanne Harris! This story unfolds through Framboise's memories and her mother's old journal🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊

BookishFeminist Keep meaning to read this! Love this quote. 🍊 8y
mhillis Thanks, this was one of the only one of hers I hadn't read! Hope you have a chance to read it soon @BookishFeminist 8y
BookishFeminist @mhillis Thanks! I haven't read anything by her. Would this book be a good place to start? 8y
mhillis @BookishFeminist I think so! Lots of her signature description and the WWII setting is interesting 8y
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marinahood
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Library day!! 😊😌🙃

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Zakia
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Bittersweet story of a French family during the war. As always, the prose is tantalising with plenty of references to food. Perfect holiday read. 🍊🍊🍇🍇🍷🍷☕️☕️

Runnertrish I loved this book. 9y
Joanne1 Her latest is supposed to be great too. 9y
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AllisonSchnake
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I just got lost in this book! One of my recent faves.