I’m reaching back to the ’90s for my First Line Friday – hosted by Hoarding Books – with Liz Curtis Higgs’ Mixed Signals. Contemporary rom coms are finding their stride once again in the Christian market with talented writers like Kara Isaac and Bethany Turner, but two of my all time favourites were penned by the inimitable Liz Curtis Higgs. Mixed Signals was Liz’s debut novel and the first book of hers I read. She followed up with Bookends, another laugh out loud romance that I highly recommend. I have the original books – they have long since been repackaged – and it’s clear to see they have been well loved.
First Line
Belle O’Brien, the woman behind the warmest voice in Virginia radio, has a problem: Her oldies show is a solid-gold hit, but her love life is an off-the-charts disaster.
Her prospects for a husband are small-town slim. Will it be smooth-talking Patrick Reese, who launched her radio career? Moody but handsome David Cahill, WPER’s enigmatic broadcast engineer? Matthew the Methodist, her oh-so-available pastor? Or the mysterious radio listener who signs his letters, “All Ears in Abingdon”?
As Belle embarks on a journey toward joy, Norah Silver-Smyth, proprietor of The Silver Spoon, cooks up her own delicious recipe for happily-ever-after in this winsome tale filled with humor, tenderness, endless surprises…and two happy endings!
An award-winning speaker since 1986, Liz Curtis Higgs has stepped onto 1,500 platforms in all fifty states and six foreign countries encouraging women to grow in Christ and celebrate their faith. As the author of twenty-two books, including her first contemporary novel, Mixed Signals, her bestselling historical novels, Thorn in My Heart and Fair Is the Rose , her nonfiction bestseller Bad Girls of the Bible, and a series of Gold Medallion Award–winning children’s books, Liz touches the hearts of her readers with real-life humor and grace-filled encouragement.
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Buy at Amazon: Mixed Signals or Koorong
March 9, 2019 at 12:03 am
Mixed Signals was one of the first CF novels I read. Love Liz and her books!
On my blog I am sharing from Daughters of Northern Shores by Joanne Bischof. But here I will share from the top book on the stack on my desk — Almost Home by Valerie Fraser Luesse. Chapter One — “Anna Williams leaned out the truck window and let the wind blow her damp auburn hair away from her face.”
Happy Friday!
March 9, 2019 at 1:02 am
Belle and David…sigh. Time to read that one again!
March 9, 2019 at 1:53 am
Hi Rel,
I remember reading these two books by Liz many years ago. I think they might have been some of the first CR books I read. I loved them and remembered laughing a lot. Thanks for the sweet reminder.
March 9, 2019 at 4:57 am
Happy Friday and Weekend! My first line is from “Castle on the Rise” by Kristy Cambron:
“Fairy-tale weddings never included rain on the guest list. Or snow – and they had both.”
March 9, 2019 at 8:58 am
I enjoy Liz’s books, too! Thank you for sharing!
My first line is from On Magnolia Lane by Denise Hunter; Jack McReady had fallen in love with Daisy in one-hour increments.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Blessings~💖
March 9, 2019 at 1:16 pm
My first line is from Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan:
“From the very beginning it was the Great Lion who brought us together.”
Happy reading!
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/03/first-line-fridays-becoming-mrs-lewis.html
March 9, 2019 at 2:35 pm
Happy Friday evening!
I’m sharing the first line from Tomorrow’s First Light by Naomi Rawlings over on my blog: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/03/07/first-line-friday-78/.
I’m just getting into the book, so I’ll share the first line from chapter 2 here:
“You’re really planning to get married?”
Hope you have a great weekend. Happy reading! 🙂❤📚
March 9, 2019 at 3:30 pm
I’m sharing from Katherine Wentworth by D.E. Stevenson on my blog today. Here’s a semi-random sentence from the e-book page I’m on:
“All around us were the rolling hills, one behind the other as far as eye could see; they were like huge green billows in a rough Atlantic gale, which had suddenly frozen into a state of immobility. Later they would be clad in heather, purple as the robes of a king.”
Happy reading and have a wonderful Friday and Weekend!
March 9, 2019 at 7:12 pm
Loved Mixed signals and Bookends. Great intros to Christian Fiction. So glad to read this reminder.
March 10, 2019 at 5:15 am
I have just started Mesu Andrews’ “Of Fire and Lions” – –
“King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles…. He gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar…. had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them…. As they drank the wine, …. the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall.”
March 10, 2019 at 12:16 pm
Oh I loved these Liz Curtis Higgs books, too!
March 11, 2019 at 7:32 am
Sorry I didn’t make it around earlier this weekend! This week on my blog I featured Night Road by Kristin Hannah but I’m currently reading Finally Accepted by Toni Shiloh. I’ll share the first line from my current chapter (6) here: “Chloe sat out on her apartment deck with a cup of herbal tea and her Bible.” Hope you had a great weekend!