The Christmas Cookie Club : A Novel (Paperback)

from andsoitgoes

Depressing, predictable, stereotypes. Little joy in this cookie club. Recipes were good as were the history of different ingredients. Wouldn't recommend it as a Christmas story unless you want to be depressed.

from ZoharLaor

"The Christmas Cookie Club" is a short novel which takes place on one December evening. The event is the annual Christmas Cookie party where twelve women exchange cookies and donate some for charity. Each cookie delivery comes with a story, a recipe and a few historical facts about the ingredient...

from Cats57

The Christmas Cookie Club is aptly named for (and I'm stating the obvious here) they are a club and they exchange cookies. They also exchange stories about their cookies why they chose the recipes and they exchange hugs and platitudes. This by far was the most depressing, so called Christmas book...

from Katyefk

The cookie recipes and ingredient explanations are very interesting and worthwhile. But the story is hard to follow as each chapter focuses on a different cookie club person and the author tries to catch you up with 12 years of past history for each person. I needed a spreadsheet to keep track of...

from ImBookingIt

3.5 stars, probably.I liked the characters and the overall setup of the book. In each chapter, a character shared her cookies and a story related to them, and Marnie filled in with her memories of that person.Unfortunately, the book never quite came together for me. Maybe it was a little too much...