Karina
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“In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were only able to read authors who expressed points of view that one agreed with entirely. It would be a bland sort of world if we could not spend time with people who thought differently, and who saw the world from a different place.”
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.”
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. We have an obligation to use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside. We have an obligation to use the language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly, to say what we mean. We must not attempt to freeze language, or to pretend it is a dead thing that must be revered, but we should use it as a living thing, that flows, that borrows words, that allows meanings and pronunciations to change with time.”
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.”
― The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
― The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“That is excitement. We catch only glimpses, a burst of movement, a flap of wings, yet it is life itself beating at shadow's edge. It is the unfolding of potential; all of what we might experience and see and learn awaits us.”
― To The Bright Edge of the World
― To The Bright Edge of the World
Karina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Young-adult, and cozy-mystery
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