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Carol’s 2022 Year in Books

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Carol Nicolas

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Carol Nicolas lives in southern California. A native of Canada, she attended BYU-Idaho (formerly Ricks College) and obtained a bachelor’s degree in education from Brigham Young University (Provo). A teacher, mother of five, world traveler, and fan of sci-fi/fantasy books and films, she enjoys gardening, painting, and family history research. She likes rock, pop, Celtic and classical music. She is a fan of Kristen Heitzmann, Robin McKinley, Maggie Stiefvater, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Shannon Guymon, Particia Briggs, Shannon Hale, Kristen D. Randle, Anne Osterlund, and Sheralynn Pratt.

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My Favorite Books for 2022

Another year has whipped by, and here I am again, looking over my Goodreads list to figure out which books I enjoyed the most. It’s so hard to decide. I reread a lot of old favorites, plus some new books from my favorite authors, and other books too. Here are the winners for the year:

January

Brandon Sanderson won for this month with Sunreach, Evershore, and Redawn.

February

Skunk and Badger,

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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

by Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Dicey's Song (Tillerman Cycle, #2)

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“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles Schultz

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

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