Today I would like to recommend you and say a few words about the newest book by Magdalena Witkiewicz, "Szczęście pachnące wanilią" / "Happiness smells like vanilla", the third part of "Milaczek".
One more time, I hope that my words will make that after reading my words, you will want to read this book. We will see.
Also you can find more posts about her on my blog here.
About what this book is:
If you already read "Milaczek" and/or "Panny roztropne" / "Sagacious ladies", you exactly know about what this book is, because as I already wrote "Szczęście pachnące wanilią" / "Happiness smells like vanilla" is the third part of "Milaczek". But don't worry, if you didn't read any of this two books, you can calmly read this book without any worry "will I get about what it is?" and I think that's the first good advantage of this book.
At first we just have to ask ourself what kind of smell has happiness. Is it full of smell of roses, grass, pure air, candies, beautiful flowers, wild forest, summer fruits, fresh rain... I could write and write a million words of wonderful things and all of them would be a good examples of smell of happiness.
Ms Witkiewicz said that happiness smells like vanilla. Mmm, maybe that's right maybe not, but you will have a chance to chack it while reading.
The story isn't so sweet and cute as the cover of this book. It's just like a real life: full of problems, hard choices, solitude but also full of hopes, love, plans for the future and fight. Yes, yes - fight to be happy.
We can see lives, problems, thoughts just a real life of young and old people, single mother and marriages, mothers who are feeling lonely but who think that their children are the most wonderful thing in their life. Also we can see the look at world of little girl and see the world seen by...dog - Parys Antonio.
The story is about: Ada, mother of little boy and who opened the cake shop/cafe and who is baking amazing sweets; Milena, the girl who loves a guy with nine-year-old daughter; Zofia [Sophia], Milena's aunt who likes to help her lovely niece, especially in love and life; Natalia, the mother of two little kids and who sometimes is feeling left alone with everything - kids, home, problems; Karolina, psychologist and single woman, who's looking for love, true love; and finally Magdalena - wife, mother and working woman, not only as the dentist, but also as the mother and father, because her husband loves...his new car.
We could think that all of these women have nothing shared, but this is not the truth. All of them need the other person to talk and to share their thought, problems, hopes, ideas. All of them need a break to feel that they are still alive, that they have something else than only home, work, kids, family and unpaid bills.
Everything is changing one day when all of these women are meeting in Ada's cafe and when because of things which happened in one second in their life, they are deciding to create a place of meetings for mothers, their kids, place where all of them, mothers and wifes, single, would have a time just for them, the time to talk with other woman, drink coffee, thinking about nothing and just feel that they are not alone and that they are alive. And also that they have a friends there, who will always help.
In this book we can find something about love, friendship, looking for the dream place, changes... and that you can love and find your happiness in every age.
This book is full of emotions, these good and these bad, and also full love. Hey, after all this is book exactly about love. Beautiful, surprising, changing for good love.
Right, it's time to tell you why happiness smells like vanilla. Who knows why? Nobody? Ok, so I will tell you. As I wrote, Ada is baking incredible sweets, and one of these amazing things are cupcakes with vanilla. These amazing cupcakes with vanilla are medicine for all problems, because when you are eating them, you forget about problems, about everything else. Ta da! That's the whole secret.
Anyway, a great idea is a recipe for these cupcakes with vanilla at the end of the book. Of course, I won't tell you more about it, just find it in the book.
Why you should read it:
Two things: never say never and believe in yourself, believe in happy life. I'm sure that if you read two previous parts you will want to know what happened later.
For who this book is:
The same as the previous books by Ms Witkiewicz, "Szczęście pachnące wanilią" / "Happiness smells like vanilla" is for adults. If you likes novels about life, love, friendship and hopes [ok, and about happy endings], this books is for you.
Things to look out for:
I know, I will write the same as always all the time, but this is the best what can I do. So what we have here? Reality, problems, hopes, changes, emotions life which isn't always so nice and cute, and the fact that if you really want something you can do it, you can have it.... or, if we are talking about love and couple, that you can be with person with who you want to be. You just have to believe in it and in yourself. And also that nobody is alone, you know that for real, but everyone always can help somebody who has the same or similar problems.
Where / when you should read this:
When and where you want to do it. This book has 274 pages, so is perfect for the weekend or when you want to read something but you don't have too much of free time. The best is the fact that you read it very quickly and you don't feel the boredom with every next page or chapter.
I hope I did it, I made that after everything what I wrote here about this book, you will want to read this one or something else by Magdalena Witkiewicz. I think that everything what I wrote is enough to show you that "Szczęście pachnące wanilią" / "Happiness smells like vanilla" is really good and funny book and mybe one day you will want to read it. I really hope so.
Of course this is not the last book by Magdalena Witkiewicz, so I will write about another one soon. I promise.
↑ Cover of this book, "Szczęście pachnące wanilią" / "Happiness smells like vanilla".
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