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Carol’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carol’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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With themes of identity, disability, and the redemptive power of love, the Goodbye, Orchid series is perfect for fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Capable beauty executive wins a coveted job assignment to China; which forces her successful boyfriend to give up Read more of this blog post »
With themes of identity, disability, and the redemptive power of love, the Goodbye, Orchid series is perfect for fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Capable beauty executive wins a coveted job assignment to China; which forces her successful boyfriend to give up Read more of this blog post »
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This is a book of beautiful tales, brave truths, with heart in every line.It started as a letter to the wounded hero who helped with my Goodbye Orchid series. He lost his legs and an arm to an explosion and taught me so much about life.
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Goodbye Orchid is a series of my heart.Inspired by wounded warriors, I wanted to explore the heartbreaking dilemma of a man who believes his disabling accident makes him the exact wrong person for the woman he loves.
Though this is fiction, these scen ...more "
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Well-written and well-researched, Death on the Thames will transport you deep into the heart of 1950's London. In a time when woman are rarely detectives, Alexandra Raven has inherited her father's investigative agency. But she's not going to let othe ...more |
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I adored We'll Prescribe You a Cat, the first book in this series. This sequel, We'll Prescribe You Another Cat, charmed me with the kind depiction of cats. In the 4 stories, somewhat hapless Japanese characters are helped through difficult situations ...more |
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Sister Monica Clare showed up on my Tiktok feed and I'm grateful. Claudette Monica Clare is a special person with such compassion, kindness, and humanity. The early part of her story is harrowing [spoiler alert]. Her father Clive abused her, her sibli ...more |
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Do you enjoy in-person book events? Please recommend any that are coming up in 2026!
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Strange and wondrous, Beautyland teaches us that it takes an extra-terrestrial to unearth fresh eyes on human activity. There are whispers of Matt Haig's The Humans and Robin Williams' Mork & Mindy in Adina's story. Marie-Helene Bertino's writing spar ...more |
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I discovered Gillian through her very relatable and honest Instagram reels. She seems like a lovely person so I'm glad to support her writing. Famous Last Words has so much to love about it. We meet Camilla, a new mother who's getting ready to bring h ...more |
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“His gaze slalomed down her face, maybe marveling, like she did, how sixteen years could pass with no sense of time, how family is rare and finite yet can slip away,
how features and mannerisms marked them as the same tribe.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
how features and mannerisms marked them as the same tribe.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
“From the back seat, he stared at the blue accessible parking tag she must’ve ordered. Above the seated figure in a wheelchair, the placard was stamped in capital letters:
PERMANENT.
Like I need a reminder that this isn’t temporary?
As they merged into traffic, the hangcard swung from the rearview mirror like a noose.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
PERMANENT.
Like I need a reminder that this isn’t temporary?
As they merged into traffic, the hangcard swung from the rearview mirror like a noose.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
“Scars wound like pale red tentacles over misshapen flesh. The sutures were gone but the raised, ropy skin stretched taut in the shape of each menacing stitch. Living death. Every nurse, therapist, doctor and family member had colluded in the grandiose lie that he was going to be able to do what he wanted.
What the hell were they talking about?”
― Goodbye, Orchid
What the hell were they talking about?”
― Goodbye, Orchid
“Scars wound like pale red tentacles over misshapen flesh. The sutures were gone but the raised, ropy skin stretched taut in the shape of each menacing stitch. Living death. Every nurse, therapist, doctor and family member had colluded in the grandiose lie that he was going to be able to do what he wanted.
What the hell were they talking about?”
― Goodbye, Orchid
What the hell were they talking about?”
― Goodbye, Orchid
“From the back seat, he stared at the blue accessible parking tag she must’ve ordered. Above the seated figure in a wheelchair, the placard was stamped in capital letters:
PERMANENT.
Like I need a reminder that this isn’t temporary?
As they merged into traffic, the hangcard swung from the rearview mirror like a noose.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
PERMANENT.
Like I need a reminder that this isn’t temporary?
As they merged into traffic, the hangcard swung from the rearview mirror like a noose.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
“His gaze slalomed down her face, maybe marveling, like she did, how sixteen years could pass with no sense of time, how family is rare and finite yet can slip away,
how features and mannerisms marked them as the same tribe.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
how features and mannerisms marked them as the same tribe.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
“actually, you being sensitive means you have more empathy than all those people
who say they’d never be able to make it through what I did.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
who say they’d never be able to make it through what I did.”
― Goodbye, Orchid
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
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