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Carrie Jones

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Born

in Manchester, NH

December 13

Website

http://www.carriejonesbooks.blog

Genre

Children's Books, Young Adult, Nonfiction

Influences

Strudel. I am very influenced by strudel.

Member Since

September 2007

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/carriejonesbooks

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***SO MANY APOLOGIES***

I had been unable to get into my Goodreads account for years. If you have friended me, I have just friended you back (July 2021). If you have messaged me, I'm going to be working through those in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you all for reaching out and I'm so sorry.

Now onto the regularly scheduled bio:

Carrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes. She does not know how to spell fudgsicles. This has not prevented her from writing books. She lives with her cute family in Maine, but she grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a séance with cool uber-comedian Sarah Silverman.

The Meyers brothers are from Bedford, too, so you’d think it would make Carrie funnier, coming from Bedford N.H. Obviously, something didn’ ...more

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Carrie Jones's Blog

Don’t Force the Rhyme

What exactly even is a forced rhyme?

Carrie Jones

Apr 14, 2026

Photo by Bill Stephan on Unsplash

I was recently helping a poet/author who was worried about forced rhyme moments and then she realized she wasn’t absolutely sure what ‘forced rhyme’ even met.

So, here’s a bit of rundown on ways we can all force our rhymes.

Weird Phrasing.

Photo by Hümâ H. Yardım on Unsplash

The most common way

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Carrie Jones’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 164,257 ratings · 8,869 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors

	Need (Need, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 64,529 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captivate (Need, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 40,093 ratings — published 2010 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Entice (Need, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 31,941 ratings — published 2010 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endure (Need, #4) 4.07 avg rating — 19,112 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Obsession by Carrie Jones (Goodreads Author), Steven E. Wedel (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 4,901 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend (Belle, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape) (Belle, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying (Flying, #1) 3.28 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Woods by Carrie Jones (Goodreads Author), Steven E. Wedel (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Stoppers (Time Stoppers #1) 3.76 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
― Carrie Jones, Need

tags: courage, freedom, happiness

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“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”
― Carrie Jones, Captivate

tags: bereavement, loss, mourning

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“He wipes his hand on his shirt.
What? Did I drool on you?"
A little."
You're a wolf. You should be used to drool."
That's low.”
― Carrie Jones, Need

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