I know, I know it’s not your typical Thanksgiving themed book. But what says Thanksgiving more than food and family? Hillary Manton Lodge writes about both (and you even get some recipes in those pages)!
I pray you enjoyed special memories, love and laughter with friends and family yesterday (even if it was just over the phone).
Tell me about what you’re reading. Leave your first line in the comments then stop by Hoarding Books Blog to visit other participants in FLF. After all, you might find a new read to add to your Christmas wish list.
First Line:
“Well, girls,” our father began, “it’s been a good run. And I’m not saying it won’t be again, but we’re going to have to…economize.”
More about the book:
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Just a few years after their father’s business scandal shatters their lives, Jane and Celia Woodward find themselves forced out of their San Francisco tea shop. The last thing Jane wants is to leave their beloved shop on Valencia Street, but when Celia insists on a move to Austin, Texas, the sisters pack up their kid sister Margot and Jane’s tea plants, determined to start over yet again.
But life in Austin isn’t all sweet tea and breakfast tacos. Their unusual living situation is challenging and unspoken words begin to fester between Jane and Celia. When Jane meets and falls for up-and-coming musician Sean Willis, the chasm grows deeper.
While Sean seems to charm everyone in his path, one person is immune – retired Marine Captain Callum Beckett. Callum never meant to leave the military, but the twin losses of his father and his left leg have returned him to the place he least expected—Texas.
In this modern spin on the Austen classic, Sense and Sensibility, the Woodward sisters must contend with new ingredients in unfamiliar kitchens, a dash of heartbreak, and the fragile hope that maybe home isn’t so far away.
Before you go…it’s the final week of my “Thankful for Readers” November giveaway. I’m giving away 4 book bundles (at least 5 books in each) of Christian fiction books. Enter here.
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Happy Friday! My first line is from A Match of Wits by Jen Turano:
“Sometimes, no matter how independent and self-assured a young lady believes herself to be, certain situations demand a good dose of screaming.”
Oh man, I need to read this book so bad!
Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving!
I’m sharing about One Enchanted Noel by Melissa Tagg over at my blog today, but I’m going to share the first line from the book I’m currently reading, The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay.
“How can I help?”
Happy Weekend!
So sorry I got to your post so late…it’s been a busy time with family who traveled from various places for Thanksgiving celebrations.
I featured Fraying at the Edge by Cindy Woodsmall on my blog for this past FLF, so here I will leave the first line from the beautiful novel I just finished reading, also by Cindy Woodsmall, The Gift of Christmas Past. Cindy wrote this phenomenal read with her daughter-in-law, Erin. It’s a great book that I cannot recommend enough!
“Hadley’s mind reeled with disbelief as her foster mom shoved her clothes into an old suitcase. ‘But…but I’m innocent.’”
Are breakfast tacos a thing? I love tacos, but for breakfast … that’s foreign food 🙂
I’m sharing the first line from The Carpenter’s Daughter by Jennifer Rodewald on my blog, which was brilliant. I’m currently reading Holding the Fort by Regina Jennings. Here’s the first line:
“The fumes of the gaslights at the foot of the state protected Louisa Bell from the more noxious odors of her audience.”
I’m enjoying it so far!