Wonderful bookish gifts for Christmas

 This is beautiful pstack of books I gifted myself for Christmas. I think that my TBR list is OK fir the next two months read. Looking forward to reading them all...

📖#giveandtake by #adamgrant which gives as an insight on what success really means, about hard work, talent and luck and how these 3 shape our lives in search of success.
📖#thevictorianhouse by #judithflanders, which follows the daily life of the middle-class Victorian house from room to room...
📖#inferno by #catherinecho, a memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband and how she rebuild her identity after a psychosis.
📖#undying by #michelfaber, a wonderful love diary dedicated to his wife who died after a long battle with cancer. A great collection of love and grieve poems.
📖#linvernodeileoni by #stefaniauci, the second volume in the Florio saga, a historical novel.
📖#themadnessofgrief by #richardcoles, a mourning account about the devastation of losing someone so loved.
📖#thegrievevolumes Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss
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If you are a cofee lover, you should read this The Devil's Cup...

 

This is the first book I finished today, January 1st. I started it on December 27th (last year obviously) and ended it today.
At first I was intrigued by the title of the book, because I am a coffee drinker and a bit of a caffeine addict ☕😁
Then I also saw that the wonderful Kim from @bookmarksnbreadsticks read it and reviewed it, and I decided to give it a try.
It's part historical book and part travel diary.
Allen 's quest for the best coffee begins in Ethiopia, then goes to Yemen, India, Turkey, Europe (especially Vienna), Brazil and finally the USA.
Each chapter gives us a historical and cultural overview behind the now famous beverage.
I mostly enjoyed the chapters about Europe, the Viennese coffee houses of the early 1600s and how a group of Italian monks gave rise to the now welknown drink called 'cappuccino'.
Definitely a non-fiction read I recommend to everyone, especially if you are a coffee lover.
#stewartallenlee, #thedevilscup, #justfininshedreading, #firstreadof2022, #instabooks, #bookstagram, #booklover, #induction, #foodnonfiction, #traveldiaries

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