It’s funny, but putting this post together led me to check when the Cochrane Lambert novel Three Fortunes in One Cookie was published (is it bad I couldn’t remember?). I stuck the title in Google and it took me first to the Amazon page. I don’t think I ever read but maybe a couple of the reviews, and it was heartening that the ones there are positive.
Timothy and I did the research in Mississippi in 2004, the book came out on September 1, 2005, just after Hurricane Katrina wiped out the coastal towns, homes, and businesses we used in the novel. I always felt like we captured a place that vanished and wish the novel had been marketed better because of the time of its release.
All that aside, I’ve posted this box before.
It’s overflowing with fortunes.
Always happy to pull one for any of you and share the front and back.
I got another Piccadilly book.
It had this task in it: Go to various Chinese restaurants and ask for fortune cookies. Then tape all the fortunes you collect to these pages.
We rarely went to Chinese restaurants even before the pandemic because we love Chinese takeout. I found a few fortunes from past meals that were dropped in a basket in the kitchen. So I used them to begin this task. Let me know in comments if you can’t read any of the fortunes or the numbers–and want the numbers to play the lottery.
That last one says, “You will be spending some time on the water soon.” No, thanks, really. During hurricane season, that doesn’t sound at all appealing.
ETA: Added to my Numbers Photo Series as No. 9.