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Carol’s 2025 Year in Books
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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.
These personal ...more "
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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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is on page 30 of 164 of Dear Orchid: This Saturday, I'll be at the Morris County Library signing my Goodbye Orchid trilogy and new book, Dear Orchid. If you're in the NJ area, please come visit me 10-2.30pm.
Dear Orchid: Letters and New Beginnings—True Stories and Fiction filled with Heart, Humor, and Hope
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Just finished the Astral Library and adored it so much! Your guest appearance in the epilogue is hilarious. Congratulations on the well-deserved best-
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Full disclosure --Tina Kashian and I know each other through a writers' organization. So I was excited when my book club chose to read her debut cozy mystery. Hummus and Homicide is set at the Jersey shore. Main character Lucy quits her job as a pate ...more |
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"How to be a Good Creature" is a balm for the soul. Through these 13 stories, Sy Montgomery reminds us of the connection between living beings. She has a gift for observing what makes each animal unique. I loved her descriptions of her childhood dog M ...more |
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How have I never read 84 Charing Cross Road before? A friend recommended this book after I had shared loving the epistolary format (my latest book, Dear Orchid, is written as a series of letters). Published in 1970, Helene Hanff's real-life letters wit ...more |
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What a delight! Sy Montgomery has completely charmed me with "What the Chicken Knows." The slim volume is based on her decades spent raising chickens as family pets. Who would've thought that each chicken would have a unique personality, from plucky to ...more |
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is on page 20 of 164 of Dear Orchid: How wonderful. Lehigh University has featured the wounded veterans that inspired Dear Orchid in their alumni magazine.
Check out the article here and let me know what you think! https://alumni.lehigh.edu/news-blog/l...
Dear Orchid: Letters and New Beginnings—True Stories and Fiction filled with Heart, Humor, and Hope
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A sweet story of Takako, who is betrayed by her boyfriend. As a result, she leaves him and her job, and accepts her uncle's offer to work at their family's bookstore in exchange for room and board. Their musty but beloved store is nestled among 170 ot ...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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