The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice. The rules are simple – turn to page 56 in your current read (or 56% in your e-reader) and post a few non-spoilery sentences.
This week’s quote is from A Blade So Black by L. L. McKinney, an Alice-in-Wonderland-inspired fantasy with a black Alice. Here she’s talking with two of her school friends. Court is white, I don’t recall Chess’s skin tone being mentioned.
“Court was just going on about how ridiculous white people are for pumpkin spice.” Alice shook her head.
Chess snorted. “Hard truths.”
“Always.” Court shoved her tray aside and dug into her designer backpack.
“Forget targeting the economy or our infrastructure. If anyone managed to kill the pumpkins, America would fall in a week. Panic in the streets.” Chess gestured questioningly at Alice’s half-empty soda bottle.
Goddess In The Stacks 
On a funny side note to your quote, I stopped by a grocery store last week where I don’t usually shop. I was poking around the sale aisle, really just a few shelves in the back where discontinued items were place. Almost all the shelves were stuffed with pumpkin-spiced items. Ha! My quotes from Where the Crawdads Sing
I’ll admit, I’m white and I LOOOOOVE pumpkin spice. So I thought the quote was hilarious.
Yep. I don’t see the fascination with pumpkin spice myself but I see it everywhere. I’m featuring The Military Wife by Laura Trentham from my review stack this week. Happy reading!
Oo. I was a military wife for five years, I’m going to go check out your post!
This looks epic! Happy weekend!
Haha! That’s funny. I admit I do like pumpkin spice in small doses, but I’m picky about it. I like the sound of A Blade So Black. I’ll have to add it to my wish list. Thank you for sharing! I hope you have a great weekend.