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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.
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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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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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Full of Osman's trademark wit, distinctive characters, and plot twists, "We Solve Murders" is a delight! Our main character works for a security firm. She's having fun guarding a famous author. They're holed up on the writer's private island, their on ...more |
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Our Orchid bookclub will host a virtual discussion on Sophie Kinsella's final novel to honor her memory. You are warmly welcome to join us: https://ww
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What Does It Feel Like? leaves a beautiful legacy. Sophie's honesty shines in the novel she calls her "most autobiographical." It's moving to read about her experiences with glioblastoma knowing that she succumbed to the illness. At the youthful age o ...more |
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Taylor Jenkins Reid's books are touching and authentic. Atmosphere teaches us about the NASA's space program, bringing us into the intimate relationships of the 1984 class of trainees that first included women. Beautifully researched and written. Joan, ...more |
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Stone Yard Devotional reads like an incantation: beautiful and soothing. In its careful depictions and everyday moments, it paints the picture of a real life that shines with authenticity. At the plot level, a woman deals with her marriage's dissoluti ...more |
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"Five Brilliant stars for Charlotte Wood and although I haven't yet read the other Booker nominees, I would love this one to win. She writes about many subjects that are close to my range of interests: the mother who composts everything - I have one o"
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Stone Yard Devotional reads like an incantation: beautiful and soothing. In its careful depictions and everyday moments, it paints the picture of a real life that shines with authenticity. At the plot level, a woman deals with her marriage's dissoluti ...more |
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As someone who's worked in marketing, I'm in awe over Richard Osman's human insights. He crafts characters that you fall in love with. Their quirks are unexpected, their flaws so human. The twists in the plot are delectable (slight spoilers): was Holl ...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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