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Ken’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ken’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ken Oder
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The Closing (Whippoorwill Hollow, #1)
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2014
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The Judas Murders (Whippoorwill Hollow, #3)
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Old Wounds to the Heart (Whippoorwill Hollow, #2)
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2015
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Keeping the Promise
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The Princess of Sugar Valley
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The Old Bull
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2016
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Cats
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The Closing
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O Encerramento
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The Killer Storm
On August 20, 1969, Cindy and I awoke at 2 a.m. to a roaring, pounding din on the tin roof of our house in White Hall, Virginia. We jumped out of bed and ran to the window.
Lightning streaked across the sky. Thunder crashed. Through a silver sheet of water, we could barely see the big oak beside the house, its thick branches bowed downward, a lake swirling around the base of its trunk.
“Hardest rain
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| Oates's stream of consciousness approach to narration doesn't work well with the very strange protagonist, Hannah. The first third of the book suffers from Hannah's disorganized thinking, extensive repetition, maddening digressions, confusing jumps i ...more | |
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| I admire Vlautin's writing style, plain, spare, but beyond that, there isn't much to redeem this sad tale. As with Lean on Pete, the characters are pitifully miserable with no other traits that flesh them out. The story is relentlessly depressing. Th ...more | |
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| The fourth in the series, this may be the best mystery in the group so far with heart-pounding suspense and Kelly finally shows some cracks in his perfect persona and loses battles with the dark side. And the ending is more, and yet less, satisfying ...more | |
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| This is the third in the Mike Kelly, Boston PD homicide detective, series. A disturbing trend has emerged across these serial novels of leaving some of the bad guys unmolested at the end, disturbing not because it's unrealistic, but precisely because ...more | |
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| This is the first novel in a six part series, introducing a new homicide detective with an interesting background in law enforcement as a previous vice squad detective, SWAT team member, and hostage negotiator, with a troubled personal life. His wife ...more | |
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| This is the second novel in a six part series. As a crime procedural thriller, it lays out a homicide investigator's process in great detail with tremendous expertise. The mystery is suspenseful and keeps you turning the pages. It's sometimes too gra ...more | |
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| This wasn't as good as The Horse. The same beautiful, spare prose helps it, but not enough to save it. The plot isn't credible or engaging. A picaresque tale, it staggers most of the way along to its contrived conclusion. There's some interesting exp ...more | |
“The same hideous cat-piss-scented, lime-green carpet that polluted the lobby graced the floor.”
― The Judas Murders
― The Judas Murders
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”
― The Killing of the Tinkers
― The Killing of the Tinkers
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
“The old forests are going and once they are gone we will have to wait a thousand years or more to see their like. Though nothing will be allowed such a generous measure of time to grow.”
― Barkskins
― Barkskins
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Ken, thank you for accepting my friend request.I've downloaded and look forward to reading The Closing.
Wishing you the very best!
