Friday Fun - The Friday 56 and First Lines for March 22, 2024

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I'm pretty sure that someone in a past Friday 56 or First Lines featured this book and the intriguing premise and cute cover caught my attention. It's been sitting on my Kindle for awhile, and I started reading it last week. 

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Walking away from Higashi Honganji temple, Hideji Kuboyama instinctively turned up the collar on his trench coat.

~From the beginning of The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time?

Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . 

The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.

A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.

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First Line Fridays is hosted at Reading is My SuperPower

*Share the first line or two of the book closest to you, then visit other FLF participants.

*Please keep posts family friendly or clean reads.

*Link back to Reading is My SuperPower within your post or grab a button.

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Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader.

*It's Book Beginnings on Fridays! Time to gather with our fellow book lovers and share the opening sentence (or so) of the books we are reading this week. Or share from a book that is on your mind right now -- whatever catches your fancy.

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'Oh, there's no such thing as rude or polite when it comes to food,' said Nagare, clearing away the rest of her dishes and wiping the table. 'What matters is that you eat it the way you like it.'

~at 56% in The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai

The Friday 56 was started and hosted at Freda's Voice. She is taking a break from hosting, but Anne at My Head Full of Books has volunteered to host for now, so I'll be linking up there.

*Grab a book, any book.

*Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your e-reader.

*Find a snippet, short and sweet.

*Post it, and share in the Linky.

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And here is the weekly bookish question in the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.  

This Week's Question: Do you remember your first library visit?

My Answer: I don't know that I remember my very first library visit, but I have pretty clear memories of my elementary school's library, and of the two public libraries that were near where I grew up. I spent a lot of time in the school library and I'd venture to say that was the first one I visited. I had plenty of books at home from a very young age, but being able to borrow even more books from a library (free!!!!) was so exciting! When we moved, the local public libraries were among the first community hubs I visited too, so I still remember the ones in Ocean City and Vineland, in Frederick and Westminster and Taneytown, and now the beautiful library in New Albany, Ohio.

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