gingerbread and other holiday confections

Okay so the only holiday pastry is gingerbread I'm afraid. I'm reading a book called gingerbread, and it's pretty good so far. I'm enjoying it. I don't think I like it as much as some of my other books, you know like I am the messenger or Anna dressed in blood, but it's a fun, quick read. It's pretty short, maybe 150 pages, so nothing like the massive books I'm usually pressing through. Its about a girl named cyd charisse after a famous movie star. If I remember correctly, the first time cyd mentioned the meaning of her name I thought to myself "that's a bit of a title to live up to". She's an interesting character. She can get to be such a snob sometimes in the text, other times being really appealing and funny. Kind, even. She has a doll named gingerbread, who her father bought for her in an airport for 100$ after she had just been born. She was the child of an affair between her mother and her father. That was the first and the last time she would ever even see her father until she was 16. The appearance of gingerbread in my mind is a bit random. At first she was a
Little brown rag doll with yarn hair, but now she's evolved. The doll has never really been described, but judging by the way she's treated, I picture Her now as a porcelain brown haired doll in a blue dress. It's a bit random, but that's what she seems like to me! I haven't quite finished the book yet. I think I will over break, so I'm excited to see what happens to cyd and gingerbread when they have to deal with her father in new York. Should be fun.

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