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Kelly’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kelly’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Kelly Kittel
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One thing that brings great joy to authors like me is when a reader takes a chance on our book and discovers that the journey was worthwhile. As a fledgling author, self-promotion is an uncomfortable necessity and I've yet to perfect a good elevator pitch for Breathe, which can be kind of a hard sell at first glance. I love to meet people but typically chat about all kinds of other things, knowing
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| I love this author, but this was definitely not my favorite of hers. Maybe it's unfair to compare and maybe something was lost in the audio version, but it was a good companion on a few long drives. ...more | |
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| Fun to listen to while I was sewing. The rich are different and even when their kids are cooking they eat delicious gourmet food. Fun to decipher the many levels of fame and privilege in her family tree. Weird that she changed her husband's name, as. ...more | |
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| A not-so-thrilling thriller... I kept waiting for something big, some great revelation or something, but no. Once again, disappointed by an overly-hyped book. When will I ever learn? | |
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| Meh. Yet another book that is overly-hyped this year, IMHO. | |
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| a tad unbelievable for the time, but a lovely little tale all the same... | |
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| Loved it. Great discussion book! | |
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| OMG. This book. Chilling. Cringing. Difficult. But. Everyone in the PNW should definitely read this or listen on tape, as I did while driving across Eastern OR on the OR trail. But you should also read it if you’re in El Paso TX or eastern KY or are ...more | |
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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| Everyone should read this, especially if you’ve already read Mountains Beyond Mountains or anything about the late, great Paul Farmer, Jim Kim or Olivia Dahl or PIH. And in light of the recent crippling of AIDS Meds and USAID. Imagine all the people… | |
“But if you were going to change the chain of events that killed your child, where would you begin? How far back would you go? All the way back to their birth? And how many times had you saved your child’s life without even realizing how close you’d just come to disaster, to being one link too late in a chain of events that would wrap around your neck and choke you forever? How close had you come to knowing this place—the place where you collapse on your knees with one fist in your belly and the other clutching a blue GAP bag containing your baby’s ruined clothes, the place from which there is no going back?”
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“The real quality of existence lies in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice creams.”
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“But if you were going to change the chain of events that killed your child, where would you begin? How far back would you go? All the way back to their birth? And how many times had you saved your child’s life without even realizing how close you’d just come to disaster, to being one link too late in a chain of events that would wrap around your neck and choke you forever? How close had you come to knowing this place—the place where you collapse on your knees with one fist in your belly and the other clutching a blue GAP bag containing your baby’s ruined clothes, the place from which there is no going back?”
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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“Tis a Fearful Thing
‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
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‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
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“A year and three months since that day, and two days before Harrison is scheduled to arrive, I take turns talking to both of my children. They seem to be in the same place right now—one dead, one unborn—which makes my life on earth feel even more tenuous. We’re right here, Daddy, I keep hearing, but no matter where I walk, I never find them. There are none of my children here, either, I think rounding every corner.”
― Once More We Saw Stars
― Once More We Saw Stars
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