Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence of the book you’re reading. The Friday 56 – As many of you know Freda over at Freda’s Voice hosted The Friday56 for many years. Since Freda is going to be gone from hosting The Friday 56 for a while, Anne over at My Head Is Full of Books will be hosting this link-up. So grab a book, turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader, and share a non-spoiler sentence or two. First Line Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Reading is My Superpower that asks you to share the first sentence of the book you’re reading. Book Blogger Hop asks a question of general interest or discussion hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer
My book for today is The Carnivore Catastrophe by Meika Macrae
Publication Date: September 11, 2023
A meat-hating novelist is FORCED into the Texas steakhouse biz…by her main character! This calls for an Emergency Ladies Brunch – SOS mimosas with a side of pancake fiascos with friends, please!
Five books into her Francesca series, Beatrice Quincy’s publisher threatens to drop her like she’s a sizzling steak. She gets it. Her main character is nothing but a glorified harlot and she’s feeling dry-aged about her leg-parting ways herself. Romantic emotions are too hard to swallow upon discovering her late husband’s shoebox full of Tiffany’s receipts for jewelry that never wound up on her own plate. If she can’t remember romance anymore, how can she write about it?
But the looming career bomb is nothing but bad timing. Now that she’s inherited a steakhouse, she needs to sell it ASAP. Not only is it a financial sinkhole, she doesn’t eat meat!
On a desperate whim to save her career, she flings out a book proposal based on her own carnivore crisis. But the only way she’ll be able to write this story is if she actually runs the steakhouse. But there’s a whole new problem gnawing on the Bobby, her childhood crush, owns Bobby’s Brisket and seems dead set on chasing her restaurant out of town.
With all her hopes pinned to the upcoming neighborhood Fall Festival, her friends in Pecan Bay are shredded between Beatrice and Bobby, not to mention concerned about Beaz’s current life choices. Their advice is charbroiling Beaz’s brain. ( Love ya, ladies, but how about a mimosa to go this time, please?!) Worse, her twin college-age boys know their meatless mum excels at blind-tasting tizzy fits.
The deeper she digs herself into a flambé of her creation, the more she thinks she should write romance off for good, both on the page and tucked inside the innermost menu of her own heart…
First Sentence:
If you’re a mother, there is little in this world more terrifying than your own twin boys gobbling three slices of their sixteenth birthday cake each (one leaving pink strawberry frosting on the edges of his mouth, the other, lips murky and dark from rocky road), then being let loose on the streets days later in a perfectly legal fashion. Her babies were allowed, encouraged even, to snuggle up behind leathered wheels, left to pump accelerators at will, in what some called cars, but police officers identified in driver’s safety courses as fully licensed weapons.
Page 56
“Then how do you choose the best one?” Taye asked Beaz. “When it comes to syrup? Everything your mother picks is a winner. We like the 100% pure maple syrup ones, nothing in them but that.”
Today’s Question Is: – Do you exchange gifts for Christmas with other book lovers? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)
A: No, I didn’t. I would have liked to, but time just got away from me this year.
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