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Ann’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Ann’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Ann Wertz Garvin
Goodreads Author
Born
in Upper St. Claire, PA, The United States
Website
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Genre
Influences
Elizabeth Berg
Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout
Member Since
April 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/annwertzgarvin
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I Thought You Said This Would Work
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2021
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5 editions
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I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around
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2016
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The Dog Year
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2014
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12 editions
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On Maggie's Watch
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2010
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6 editions
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The Dog Year Paperback – June 3, 2014
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Less Hustle, More Joy
Less Hustle, More Joy.
I spend so much time thinking about this idea it gets in the way of my Netflix streaming/binging.
Here’s what I know. If the culture (looking at you Oprah, Victoria Secret, Martha Stewart) can convince you that you don’t have The Life You Want, that your pores should not exist, that you need more baskets for organization, then you will spend money and time fixing those things.
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another masterpiece How does she do it? I literally could do nothing else until I finished it. I read all of her books and they never disappoint. |
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| The Christmas Wager by Holly Cassidy reads like Survivor meets the Hallmark Channel but with the fate of a Christmas shop hanging in the balance. This book is for you if you love a good tussle, a spark of romance, and a competition of wills and skill ...more | |
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A masterpiece They should teach this book in every high school health class, English class, Essex, language, math. Men should read it, although I suppose they won’t, because it was written by a woman this book, it’s a masterpiece |
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stunning This was such a good book. You could feel the stress and emotion and fears, love and fear and powerful connections all the way through. This book is fantastic. |
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a real exploration Of family and what it feels like to love a person you are horrified by and how to make peace and go on in life. |
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beautiful or rich society doesn’t believe you suffer The honesty and humanity in this book is a relief and wonder. Many will cluck and say — whatever she doesn’t deserve her pain— but this book is evidence that indeed she does. The gifted. The beautif ...more |
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wonderful I read and read and read some more. It all felt real and timely. Historic and present. I loved it. |
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Chilling. Fantastic. I did not put this book down. I read it like it was written just for me. I grew up in Michigan in a mining town with quarries —during the era where no one cared about girls unless they were beautiful. This book though chilling di ...more |
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read with great enjoyment I loved this book it checked every box for me. Characters with secret potions. Intrigue. Death and hero’s. Definitely what I wanted! |
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“ I think people should get married at the courthouse without a single person present and no fanfare whatsoever. Then, if the couple makes it to ten years, they should have a big party. The whole shebang, white dress, flowers, cake of their dreams. After ten years they'd deserve it.”
― The Dog Year
― The Dog Year
“She shoved open her car door and moved to get out. Instead she dropped her head to the steering wheel. She tried to pull the tough-girl mask over her sorrow and get on with her life. Instead she cried like adults learn to cry; silently and alone.”
― The Dog Year
― The Dog Year
“I'm getting chocolate. I need you. Come over." She hung up, hoping he would get the message. A binge was coming, get help.
Inside the store, she blew past the small plastic shopping baskets not made for heavy lifting, and wheeled the full-sized grocery cart over to the holiday aisle. One of the wheels dragged like a conscience, pulling the cart halfheartedly in the direction of the fresh produce. The other wheels squealed in protest.”
― The Dog Year
Inside the store, she blew past the small plastic shopping baskets not made for heavy lifting, and wheeled the full-sized grocery cart over to the holiday aisle. One of the wheels dragged like a conscience, pulling the cart halfheartedly in the direction of the fresh produce. The other wheels squealed in protest.”
― The Dog Year
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“Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true.”
― Stranger Than Fiction: The Shooting Script
― Stranger Than Fiction: The Shooting Script
“ We'd like to take a look at the adoptable dogs. Please."
"... if you have any thoughts of feeding the dogs, you leave that thought with me."
"This is serious. You can't feed them... You feed them something you think is no big deal ... like a Slim Jim or a Vienna Sausage, and we're cleaning up a shitstorm at two AM."
"Shitstorm," Mark said. " Is that the clinical term, Dr. Peterman?"
" We call it a code brown at the hospital.”
― The Dog Year
"... if you have any thoughts of feeding the dogs, you leave that thought with me."
"This is serious. You can't feed them... You feed them something you think is no big deal ... like a Slim Jim or a Vienna Sausage, and we're cleaning up a shitstorm at two AM."
"Shitstorm," Mark said. " Is that the clinical term, Dr. Peterman?"
" We call it a code brown at the hospital.”
― The Dog Year
“ I think people should get married at the courthouse without a single person present and no fanfare whatsoever. Then, if the couple makes it to ten years, they should have a big party. The whole shebang, white dress, flowers, cake of their dreams. After ten years they'd deserve it.”
― The Dog Year
― The Dog Year
“ ... The group is a wonderful mix of people - a microcosm, I believe, of what's really out there. Listen, Lucy, you do my job for a while and here's what you learn. No one is normal. Everybody struggles with something. Marital problems, depression, codependency, maybe a looming fascination with shoes or leather bags that keeps her working overtime shifts to pay off her debt. Whatever. Stop thinking everyone else has it together. It's not true. Precious few people have life figured out. 'Normal' just isn't normal anymore.”
― The Dog Year
― The Dog Year
“I'm getting chocolate. I need you. Come over." She hung up, hoping he would get the message. A binge was coming, get help.
Inside the store, she blew past the small plastic shopping baskets not made for heavy lifting, and wheeled the full-sized grocery cart over to the holiday aisle. One of the wheels dragged like a conscience, pulling the cart halfheartedly in the direction of the fresh produce. The other wheels squealed in protest.”
― The Dog Year
Inside the store, she blew past the small plastic shopping baskets not made for heavy lifting, and wheeled the full-sized grocery cart over to the holiday aisle. One of the wheels dragged like a conscience, pulling the cart halfheartedly in the direction of the fresh produce. The other wheels squealed in protest.”
― The Dog Year
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