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Carrie Padgett

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April 24

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A new Susan Mallery story is always a good reason to curl up and block out the world. Even though this one is not really a beach read, it still invited me to get lost in great characters and their world.

Shannon and her mom, Cindy, have always been close. Maybe too close? So close that when Shannon’s boyfriend proposes, she can’t bring herself to tell her also engaged mom who’s sure to suggest

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Average rating: 4.17 · 1,609 ratings · 221 reviews · 6 distinct works

	One Fine Day (Hearts Bend Collection, #1) by Rachel Hauck (Goodreads Author), Carrie Padgett (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 1,526 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starry Nights by Angela Ruth Strong (Goodreads Author), Carrie Padgett (Goodreads Author), Tabitha Bouldin (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brooke Runs Away: A Harts Leap Romance Novella (Love in Reality Book 2) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Sweet & Sassy 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lauren's Second Chance: A Love in Reality Novel 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anyone But You: A Hearts Bend Romance (Home to Hearts Bend Book 2) by Rachel Hauck (Goodreads Author), Carrie Padgett (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Maid's Secret (Molly the Maid, #3)

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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Carrie’s Quotes

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

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“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
― Anne Lamott

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“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: drinking, sacrilege

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“The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.”
― Ted Dekker, The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

tags: bumper-sticker, christianity, pessimism, positive-thinking

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