Hello, bookworms!

I hope you had a nice weekend, mine was full of things to do and goals to accomplish as usual, but I survived and that's what I am focusing on. Today I am here with a super nice tag I first saw back in September on Books Real When Shared blog: The Bookish Baking Tag; the original tag was created by Hammock of Books (you can find it here).

As you may or may not know, I really love baking and not living at home anymore means I haven't baked a single cookie in almost two months. I really miss having fun with flour, butter, sugar and eggs, so I decided that this tag was going to be it.

If you want to do it as well, consider yourself tagged, but please remember to credit the creator! Now, let's start answering the questions.

🫐 Blueberry Muffins: a book with a perfect beginning
I had many different options, but I ended up with the most obvious one. Of course I am going to say Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Whether you consider the first chaper title as the beginning or the first sentence, to me this book has the perfect beginning. It already makes you understand a bit of the main character and it perfectly sets the tone and I can't think of any other beginning that stuck with me as much as this one had.

blueberry muffins
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🥧 Pumpkin Pie: a perfect holiday book
My favourite holiday is Halloween, so I am going to choose a book which is spooky and has the perfect atmosphere for October. It's another middle grade, this time I am talking about Small Spacesby Katherine Arden. It's the first book in a series of middle grade horror, each of which is set during a different season; this one, of course, has a fall setting and it's perfect for Halloween. If you want a Christmas one, I'd say the sequel would count as well!

🥯 Cinnamon Rolls: a smol character who must be protected
First of all, I know that's a bagel and not a cinnamon roll, but it's the closest emoji I could find. Second of all, this is my question. Cinnamon roll characters are my favourite type of characters, especially if they also have a not-so-cinnamon-roll side. It was really hard to pick just one, but I have decided to go with Toge Inumaki from Jujutsu Kaisen. He fits the cinnamon roll character archetype, to me, but he is also strong and powerful, just how I like it (he is indeed my favourite character from the manga).

🍋 Lemon Meringue Pie: a book with total summer vibes
I struggled a bit to find an answer to this question, but I ended up choosing The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson, which is set at summer camp, so I thought it was fitting. Usually, mystery is not the genre people associate with summer, but to me mysteries are evergreen, and this one in particular is very summer-y. I can't wait to see in which season the next companion is set; my bet is fall, so maybe it would fit with the first question.

lemon meringue pie

🎂 Funfetti Cake: a book that makes you feel like a child
I have no idea what a Funfetti cake is, but it sounds nice; maybe in Italy we call it some other way or we don't have them, but now I want to try it. I am going to google it as soon as I finish answering these questions. Anyways, to answer the question, I am going to say Fairy Oak. It's an Italian fantasy series I read when I was a child, which recently got two companions added to it and everytime I read or reread any installments I feel like I am a child again. I am not sure if the books exist in English, but I highly recommend them.

🍪 Chocolate Chip Cookies: an amazing classic
So many good ones! Since I am on a middle grade kick, I am going to choose a middle grade classic I hardly ever see mentioned anywhere. Pollyanna was such a huge part of my childhood and recently I have been wanting to reread it, because I don't actually remember anything other than the fact that I really loved it and I kept it with Little Women, The Secret Garden and Daddy-Long-Legs, among other titles, so it had the same vibes for kid me. We shall see, maybe I'll also talk about it in an article, if I reread it eventually!

🍘 Oatmeal Raisin Cookies: a book that deserves more love
Once again, using a random emoji because there's no oatmeal one. There are so many underhyped books, in my opinion, especially on the bookish side of the Internet, where everyone talks about the same books. A recent read of mine that I think that deserves more love is definitely Shadow of the Fox. It was such a good start to a YA fantasy trilogy and it made me super excited to pick up the sequels. It rarely happens, nowadays, that I read a YA fantasy and are interested enough to carry on with the series, and no one is talking about this one!

🍰 Angel Food Cake: a book that's pure air and fluff
I looooove fluffy books, they make me feel so comforted and happy and whenever I am sad I know I can count on them to pick me up. I've decided to pick a manga I discovered last year and fell in love with. I have never read anything fluffier than My Son Is Probably Gay, it is just happy vibes, without any darkness and it makes me feel extremely at peace. I think the fourth volume will be the last one and I am not ready to say goodbye to it. I really hope the author decides to publish more volumes or write something as fluffy as this one.

angel food cake

🥕 Carrot Cake: a book with a good message
I wasn't sure what to pick for this particular question, but then I've decided to go with Chef's Kiss. It's a graphic novel coming out next month that deals with 'new adults' problems, such as finding a job after having spent years studying. I like the fact that it highlights how you can have different dreams and different interests and you don't necessarily have to stick with what you studied. I am studying publishing and I want to work in publishing, but I am also open to other fields and I will see what life has in store for me, if publishing does not work out for me. It's also okay not having yet figured out what you want to do, so I believe this graphic novel carries a good message.

🥠 Macarons: a book that was intimidating
Why on Earth there's no macaron emoji?! Mark better step up his game, because we are missing so many foods, here. Anyways, classics are very intimidating for me, most of the times, especially if I pick them up in English, which is not my first language. One of the most recent ones I've read is The Great Gatsby, that I had procrastinated for years, because I was indeed intimidated by it. In the end, it was all in my head, I had no problems with the language and I actually really enjoyed it!

🥚 Egg Tarts: an amazing diverse book
I have never heard of this dessert either, yet another thing I am going to google afterwards. Once again, I could pick so many good ones! I am going to say Ace of Spades, which has two POC and queer main characters and the author is a WOC herself, so it's very diverse. I also want to quickly take the opportunity to ask y'all to recommend me books with disabled characters, if you can. I realized I don't read as many of them as I should and I am trying to fix that, because I want to read about as many different experiences as I can.

egg tarts

🍌 Banana Bread: a book with a lot of hype
I don't really like banana bread, to be honest, but I am going to pick a hyped book I enjoyed! It's a spoiler of my upcoming article about the books I read because they were BookTube favourites, but I really ended up loving The Love Hypotesis. I did not expect it at all, but it was super cute and it made me feel good during a really bad time for my mental health, so I really appreciate it and I want to buy myself a physical copy as soon as possible. Also, I appreciated the demisexual rep, which is rare to find in mainstream books.

That's all for this tag. I had so much fun with it and now I really want to eat some cake (very ace of me, I know, I know). I'll see you soon with a new article!

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