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Karen Connelly
Goodreads Author
Born
in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Member Since
September 2014
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The Lizard Cage
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published
2005
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26 editions
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The Change Room
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published
2017
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4 editions
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Burmese Lessons
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published
2009
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8 editions
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Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal
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published
1992
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13 editions
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The Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand
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published
1998
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3 editions
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One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France & Greece
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published
1995
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5 editions
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Come Cold River
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published
2013
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2 editions
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This Brighter Prison: A Book of Journeys
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published
1993
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4 editions
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The Disorder of Love
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published
1997
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The Border Surrounds Us
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published
2000
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Why I Wrote The Change Room
Dear Readers,
I've been fascinated to read the reviews here, not just of The Change Room, but of all my work. Thank you. I am just coming to the Goodreads site now--I've looked in now and again, but have never thought to engage at all with readers, mostly because I am so busy. But a reader recently asked me to 'sign up' so that I would have more of a profile right on the site.
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I've been fascinated to read the reviews here, not just of The Change Room, but of all my work. Thank you. I am just coming to the Goodreads site now--I've looked in now and again, but have never thought to engage at all with readers, mostly because I am so busy. But a reader recently asked me to 'sign up' so that I would have more of a profile right on the site.
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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
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Karen Connelly
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Goodreads's
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That is easy! I would go to the world of Young Merlin and older Ambrosius in Mary Stewart's magnificent novel The Crystal Cave.
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Karen Connelly
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Madeline Van Husen's review
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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma:
"This was a pretty good overview of intergenerational trauma. I thought the vignettes were well-written, but nothing groundbreaking. My biggest issue with the book was the discussion of trauma for people in Israel, Israelis now living in the U.S., and"
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“He starts to whisper a prayer. "Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hurtfulness. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from ill health. Whatever beings there are, may they be able to protect their own happiness.”
― The Lizard Cage
― The Lizard Cage
“Their conversations were often charged with an excitement out of proportion to what they talked about... Their words seemed to glimmer in the air between them, dangerous metallic threads that quickly connected both of them to books and ideas, to language itself. The jailer told Teza about the daring subject matter of the famous writer Ju's recent novel, in which a passionate young man falls in love with an older woman, but the story, as he was telling it, became a metaphor for their own deepening and forbidden association....Teza refused to act like a prisoner, which freed Chit Naing from acting like a jailer.”
― The Lizard Cage
― The Lizard Cage
“Each time they meet, they have more to discuss, and so they talk, quietly revealing themselves with and without language, their eyes moving like their hands over the plates of food between them....As he walks away from these visits, his heart almost bursts from happiness and regret. He would give anything to have made different choices. He is making those choices now, but he is forty-six years old. Sometimes he is haunted by the thought that it's all come too late. Other times he thinks, No, what is happening now could never have happened before; I was too young and too fearful. The paradox fascinates him--as the old loyalties desiccate and the danger intensifies, he feels lighter and younger than he has in years.”
― The Lizard Cage
― The Lizard Cage
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