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Cara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Cara Sapida
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Member Since
April 2011
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https://www.goodreads.com/carasapida
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Not the Breast Year of My Life: Finding Hope and Resilience After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
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"WHAT A RIDE 😨 I *inhaled* this book omfg. No notes. Gripping from beginning to end. Move it to the top of your TBR if it’s not there already. "
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"1 feel ilke I read a different book than those with 5 stars. It just was all over the place and felt like the author decided to throw a bunch of ideas in and see what stuck and the editor didn't edit. It was meant to be a thriller, and based on the s"
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“Grief, I’d only begun to learn, can be so startling in the morning, it feels like an ambush.”
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“There’s an unspoken expectation that we are going to finish treatment and bounce right back. We are tethered to our Chemo Chairs for months and months and then just tossed back into the world like a deer on ice trying to land on our feet.”
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“Nobody craves normalcy more than us! If only it were so simple and easy to move forward, tossing a match behind you and burning the whole ugly experience to the ground. Burn the pink tchotchkes while you’re at it.”
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“The overcoming adversity tool isn't something you're born with, or would eagerly sign up for, but it was tossed into my lap like a gift. I promised myself I was coming through this experience stronger. I vowed to be unwavering with my dedication to mental and physical health after cancer. I envisioned a life of peace and I was reaching for it.”
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“My last chemo treatment was right around the corner. The enemy I'd pictured pulling a sneak attack on me was losing. My healthy-cell cancer fighter's were kicking in the swinging doors like an old Western movie and smoking those cancer cells one by one. They were doing the physical work; the least I could do was the mental olympics.
The unexpected gift of mental fortitude feels like a secret in the breast cancer sisterhood community.
Let’s vow to one another to accept positive energy only, including from our brains to ourselves.”
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The unexpected gift of mental fortitude feels like a secret in the breast cancer sisterhood community.
Let’s vow to one another to accept positive energy only, including from our brains to ourselves.”
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Pieter
Apr 04, 2011 01:45PM
Welcome, Cara. This is a great site.
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