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Karen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Karen Barrow
Goodreads Author
Born
Trinidad and Tobago
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
January 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/historicalfictionauthor
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Palmyra
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2024
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3 editions
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Karen’s Recent Updates
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Thanks again for introducing Palmyra to your bookclub, Bev! And thanks for taking the time to review the novel. Much appreciated.
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"Palmyra is a beautifully written book that transports the reader to a bustling cocoa plantation on Trinidad at the turn of twentieth century. The story is told via a precocious 12 year old boy who is the son of the head housekeeper. This gothic myste"
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Thank you so much for the review, Lori and for having me attend your book club meeting.
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"Palmyra gripped me from the beginning. It was a well-developed story that set up the mystery well. I loved the description and history of Trinidad and the development of the characters. It's a book I couldn't put down. "
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Thank you for taking the time to review Palmyra, Avril. Much appreciated and its good to know you enjoyed it.
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"Palmyra does a fantastic job of bringing the reader into the racial, class, and gender dynamics of the turn of the 20th century Trinidad all the while telling a compelling story of family intrigue."
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"It's rare that I review a book I didn't finish, but due to the 1 star rating, I feel I must explain myself. I abandoned the book for two reasons:
1. This is marketed as historical fiction and uses very real people in the narrative. I truly believe it'" Read more of this review » |
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. It is much appreciated. And my apologies for any discomfort I caused.
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“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― The Wind in the Willows
― The Wind in the Willows
“She left our Gdańsk-Morena apartment with same haste as Tata, gone in a mad dash. She must have prepared for it , trained hard and practised. Everything that fast is slow in planning. An earthquake that takes seconds to wreck everything is a result of billions of years of slipping and shoving of tectonic plates. Those plates have no choice but to live side by side, often on top of one another. They hate this setup. They push each other around, siblings vying for the top bunk, to the point of eruption, ruin and exhaustion. After the quake: calm. A sad empty calm, with too much time to think...”
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