Tomato Stakes |
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Author:
| Moore, Melanie |
Series title: | Melanie Jo Moore Memoirs Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4905-3975-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.99 |
Book Description:
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Have you ever met a man that made you act foolish? You are in good company. Let me tell you the tale of the most ridiculous love story ever.I was a free spirited gypsy. I needed no man. I had my crazy cousin to fill my days. We drank until we couldn't stand. We drove people insane. We were inseparable and damned with nearly the same name, Melanie Moore and Melissa Moore. Here's the secret, we weren't really cousins!Then, she moved away. At first I wasn't sure how I was going to keep...
More DescriptionHave you ever met a man that made you act foolish? You are in good company. Let me tell you the tale of the most ridiculous love story ever.I was a free spirited gypsy. I needed no man. I had my crazy cousin to fill my days. We drank until we couldn't stand. We drove people insane. We were inseparable and damned with nearly the same name, Melanie Moore and Melissa Moore. Here's the secret, we weren't really cousins!Then, she moved away. At first I wasn't sure how I was going to keep myself busy. I did the most rational thing and started to plot my life around a man who didn't even know I was alive. Our paths crossing again depended on one thing: tomatoes.Julio was a crew leader for a tomato harvesting company. I would have to cross my fingers and pray he would return the following summer. He was so mesmerizing, I wasn't even sure I could look him in the eye. A mutual friend was sure he could make the match.The obsession became unhealthy, as most are. Before you could say cherry tomato, I lived in a fantasy world that I would indeed love, marry and copulate with Julio. I was going to be his reason for getting up in the morning, his reason for living.If I only knew then what I know now, I would have checked myself into the psych ward.Come join me for some Coronas, a few shots of tequila and a wild time following an irresistible man."Booze, check. Sex, check. Hot flaky Mexican men ready to pay your bar tab at the drop of a sombrero, check and check! Melanie Jo Moore has done it again with 'Tomato Stakes', the second in what I'm hoping will be a trilogy of her mis-adventures as a shore raised rebellious gypsy. In her second book we find Melanie in her early twenties chasing after every little girls dream, to marry a Mexican crew leader at a tomato farm and have lots of sex and babies with him. Well, okay, not every little girls dream, but definitely hers! What she doesn't realize is that she's a willing participant in the worst kind of love. Unrequited. As she takes us on a whirlwind adventure across the Eastern Shore of Virginia we feel everything she does from love drunk to drunk love! If you're looking for the right book to take to the beach, curl up with on the couch or carry on the plane, this book is just what you're looking for. Just make sure anyone within ear shot has headphones for those many times when you burst into fits of hysterical laughter. And, of course, keep the Coronas and tequila within reach, you know, for authenticity!"-Chelsea DoEpp, Founder of the Books, Booze and Bitchin' Book Club