Ich habe dieses Buch vor Jahren von meiner BF geschenkt bekommen. Eine wunderschöne Idee sich immer an einem festen Tag im Dezember zu treffen. Plätzchen und Rezepte und die Lebens Ereignisse zu teilen. Die Geschichten jeder einzelnen mitwirkenden Frau sind so schön und bildlich beschrieben. Ein sehr gut geschrieben Buch, das einen mitnimmt. Ich habe tatsächlich einige Rezepte getestet und war positiv überrascht, wie gut diese Plätzchen waren. Ein schönes Buch für die Einstimmung auf die Adventszeit.

Das Buch war ein Geschenk von meiner Mutter und ich muss zugeben, dass ich am Anfang etwas reinfinden musste. Dann haben mich die verschiedenen Lebensgeschichten der Cookie-Hexen aber total gepackt, und vor allem emotional total berührt! Ich war am Ende einfach sehr berührt und begeistert.

The Christmas Cookie Club is a fantastic idea! It is really different from other books even from other Christmas books! Every chapter starts with a great recipe for Christmas cookies and every chapter talks about the story of one of the members of the Christmas Cookie Club. Actually, the book is more about the different stories the people have to tell and less about the cookies themselves but the cookies and the cookie party always connect the stories and are the red line through the book! This red line makes the book really special and well thought through. What I also liked a lot is that It is great that Ann Pearlman explains the different main ingredients of Christmas Cookies while telling the stories of the characters and giving recipes! It keeps it interesting and gives the whole picture. It is also really informative and we can learn lots about the background of the different ingredients and why and how they are used for baking. I did not know that much about baking and the different ingredients used for it before and I am sure I would have never learned that much about them if it wasn‘t for in this book. I am wondering if Ann Pearlman tried out all recipes by herself in order to talk so much about the different cookies. It definitely made me want to try out all the recipes while I was reading. I do not want to take away the details of the plot and the stories of the women but I can say that this book has a little bit of everything. It has a love story and a drama, it makes you cry and it makes you love, it talks about personal experiences as well as general information that have nothing to do with the characters. On top of that all these different parts are combined so well and fit so well together that the end result is highly recommendable for every woman to read before Christmas! I truly enjoyed The Christmas Cookie Club because it was different from what I‘ve read before, it entertained me and it put me in a great Christmas mood! To read more of my reviews visit: http://booksaroundtheworld.wordpress.com