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Cathy Lamb

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Cathy Lamb was born in Newport Beach, California. As a child, she mastered the art of skateboarding, catching butterflies in bottles, and riding her bike with no hands. When she was 10, her parents moved her, two sisters, a brother, and two poorly behaved dogs to Oregon before she could fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a surfer bum.

She then embarked on her notable academic career where she earned good grades now and then, spent a great deal of time daydreaming, ran wild with a number of friends, and landed on the newspaper staff in high school. When she saw her byline above an article about people making out in the hallways of the high school, she knew she had found her true calling.

After two years of partying at the University of Or...more Cathy Lamb was born in Newport Beach, California. As a child, she mastered the art of skateboarding, catching butterflies in bottles, and riding her bike with no hands. When she was 10, her parents moved her, two sisters, a brother, and two poorly behaved dogs to Oregon before she could fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a surfer bum.

She then embarked on her notable academic career where she earned good grades now and then, spent a great deal of time daydreaming, ran wild with a number of friends, and landed on the newspaper staff in high school. When she saw her byline above an article about people making out in the hallways of the high school, she knew she had found her true calling.

After two years of partying at the University of Oregon, she settled down for the next three years and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education, and became a fourth grade teacher. It was difficult for her to become proper and conservative but she threw out her red cowboy boots and persevered. She had no choice. She had to eat, and health insurance is expensive.

She met her husband on a blind date. A mutual friend who was an undercover vice cop busting drug dealers set them up. It was love at third sight.

Teaching children about the Oregon Trail and multiplication facts amused her until she became so gigantically pregnant with twins she looked like a small cow and could barely walk. With a three year old at home, she decided it was time to make a graceful exit and waddle on out. She left school one day and never went back. She likes to think her students missed her.

When Cathy was no longer smothered in diapers and pacifiers, she took a turn onto the hazardous road of freelance writing and wrote almost 200 articles on homes, home décor, people and fashion for a local newspaper. As she is not fashionable and can hardly stand to shop, it was an eye opener for her to find that some women actually do obsess about what to wear. She also learned it would probably be more relaxing to slam a hammer against one’s forehead than engage in a large and costly home remodeling project.

Cathy suffers from, “I Would Rather Play Than Work Disease” which prevents her from getting much work done unless she has a threatening deadline. She likes to hang with family and friends, walk, eat chocolate, camp, travel, and is slightly obsessive about the types of books she reads. She also likes to be left alone a lot so she can hear all the odd characters in her head talk to each other and then transfer that oddness to paper. The characters usually don’t start to talk until 10:00 at night, however, so she is often up ‘til 2:00 in the morning with them. That is her excuse for being cranky.

She adores her children and husband, except when he refuses to take his dirty shoes off and walks on the carpet. She will ski because her children insist, but she secretly doesn’t like it at all. Too cold and she falls all the time.

She is currently working on her next book and isn’t sleeping much.(less)

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Average rating: 3.86 · 6,739 ratings · 1,473 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Julia's Chocolates 3.79 avg rating — 2,103 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Last Time I Was Me 3.99 avg rating — 1,335 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Henry's Sisters 3.96 avg rating — 1,230 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Such A Pretty Face 3.88 avg rating — 1,064 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The First day of the Rest of My Life 3.87 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Different Kind of Normal 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Suzanna's Stockings 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	A Different Kind of Normal 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Comfort and Joy by Fern Michaels, Cathy Lamb (Goodreads Author), Marie Bostwick (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Almost Home by Debbie Macomber (Goodreads Author), Cathy Lamb (Goodreads Author), Judy Duarte 3.60 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	My rating:

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“Grab the love. Hold on tight. Treasure it. Put that love you have for your husband first, arrange everything else around it, and all else will work out. Love must be cradled and nurtured and enjoyed and danced with. Never, ever, forget the love. It's why we want to live.
Aunt Lydia's character, Julia's Chocolates”
― Cathy Lamb

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“I laughed until my fat hurt.”
― Cathy Lamb

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“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.”
― Cathy Lamb, Henry's Sisters

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