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Cathy Lamb was born in Newport Beach, California. As a child, she mastered the art of skateboarding, catching butterflies in bottles, and riding her bike with no hands. When she was 10, her parents moved her, two sisters, a brother, and two poorly behaved dogs to Oregon before she could fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a surfer bum.

She then embarked on her notable academic career where she earned good grades now and then, spent a great deal of time daydreaming, ran wild with a number of friends, and landed on the newspaper staff in high school. When she saw her byline above an article about people making out in the hallways of the high school, she knew she had found her true calling.

After two years of partying at the University of Or Cathy Lamb was born in Newport Beach, California. As a child, she mastered the art of skateboarding, catching butterflies in bottles, and riding her bike with no hands. When she was 10, her parents moved her, two sisters, a brother, and two poorly behaved dogs to Oregon before she could fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a surfer bum.

She then embarked on her notable academic career where she earned good grades now and then, spent a great deal of time daydreaming, ran wild with a number of friends, and landed on the newspaper staff in high school. When she saw her byline above an article about people making out in the hallways of the high school, she knew she had found her true calling.

After two years of partying at the University of Oregon, she settled down for the next three years and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education, and became a fourth grade teacher. It was difficult for her to become proper and conservative but she threw out her red cowboy boots and persevered. She had no choice. She had to eat, and health insurance is expensive.

She met her husband on a blind date. A mutual friend who was an undercover vice cop busting drug dealers set them up. It was love at third sight.

Teaching children about the Oregon Trail and multiplication facts amused her until she became so gigantically pregnant with twins she looked like a small cow and could barely walk. With a three year old at home, she decided it was time to make a graceful exit and waddle on out. She left school one day and never went back. She likes to think her students missed her.

When Cathy was no longer smothered in diapers and pacifiers, she took a turn onto the hazardous road of freelance writing and wrote almost 200 articles on homes, home décor, people and fashion for a local newspaper. As she is not fashionable and can hardly stand to shop, it was an eye opener for her to find that some women actually do obsess about what to wear. She also learned it would probably be more relaxing to slam a hammer against one’s forehead than engage in a large and costly home remodeling project.

Cathy suffers from, “I Would Rather Play Than Work Disease” which prevents her from getting much work done unless she has a threatening deadline. She likes to hang with family and friends, walk, eat chocolate, camp, travel, and is slightly obsessive about the types of books she reads. She also likes to be left alone a lot so she can hear all the odd characters in her head talk to each other and then transfer that oddness to paper. The characters usually don’t start to talk until 10:00 at night, however, so she is often up ‘til 2:00 in the morning with them. That is her excuse for being cranky.

She adores her children and husband, except when he refuses to take his dirty shoes off and walks on the carpet. She will ski because her children insist, but she secretly doesn’t like it at all. Too cold and she falls all the time.

She is currently working on her next book and isn’t sleeping much. ...more

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Hello all,The Language of Sisters and My Very Best Friend are available to buy as e-books, or paperbacks, and they are now also on Kindle Unlimited…just in case you need a book to take you away from life for awhile.My Amazon page:https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cathy+lamb&crid=OTXQW0DUOLV9&sprefix=cathy+lam%2Caps%2C178&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

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Cathy Lamb wrote a new blog post On Beauty and Devastating Events A lot changed in my life from mid-2023 into early 2024.There was so much beauty, and a hundred things to be grateful for, and yet one person created a Read more of this blog post »
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“But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.”
― Cathy Lamb, The First Day of the Rest of My Life

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“Grab the love. Hold on tight. Treasure it. Put that love you have for your husband first, arrange everything else around it, and all else will work out. Love must be cradled and nurtured and enjoyed and danced with. Never, ever, forget the love. It's why we want to live.
Aunt Lydia's character, Julia's Chocolates”
― Cathy Lamb

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“I laughed until my fat hurt.”
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Polls

August ~ BotM Nominations-(Dusty Read) 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move on to the 2nd Poll!!!

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

8 votes, 12.7%

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

8 votes, 12.7%

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

6 votes, 9.5%

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys

6 votes, 9.5%

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker

6 votes, 9.5%

The Lost Wife

by Alyson Richman

5 votes, 7.9%

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

5 votes, 7.9%

The Boy in the Suitcase

by Lene Kaaberbøl

3 votes, 4.8%

The Dry Grass of August

by Anna Jean Mayhew

3 votes, 4.8%

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3 votes, 4.8%

Strip Tease

by Carl Hiaasen

3 votes, 4.8%

French Lessons

by Ellen Sussman

2 votes, 3.2%

The Power of One

by Bryce Courtenay

2 votes, 3.2%

The Bookman’s Tale

by Charlie Lovett

2 votes, 3.2%

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

by Cathy Lamb

1 vote, 1.6%

Corduroy Mansions

by Alexander McCall Smith

0 votes, 0.0%

Summer and Bird

by Katherine Catmull

0 votes, 0.0%

63 total votes

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