428 ratings (4.25 avg)
17 reviews
more photos (20)

Karen

Add friend

Karen’s favorites shelf

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Women of the Pleasure Quarters by Lesley Downer

My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Becky Reyher

Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

More…

Karen’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (55)
currently-reading‎ (3)
read‎ (428)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
j-fiction‎ (99)
book-club-ages-9-12‎ (57)
j-fantasy‎ (41)
adult-fiction‎ (40)
jp‎ (33)
j-non-fiction‎ (28)
j-biography‎ (25)
j-mystery‎ (20)

favorites‎ (19)
j-graphic-novels‎ (19)
ya-fiction‎ (19)
adult-historical-fic‎ (17)
twixt‎ (16)
j-historical‎ (15)
adult-classics‎ (14)
adult-non-fiction‎ (14)
j-historical-fic‎ (14)
j-christmas-favs‎ (11)
big-read‎ (10)
ya-dystopia‎ (9)

j-folk-fairy-tales‎ (7)
adult-mysteries‎ (6)
j-classics‎ (6)
j-poetry‎ (6)
j-mythology‎ (5)
j-novel-in-verse‎ (5)
ya-fantasy‎ (5)
adult-biography‎ (4)
adult-memoir‎ (4)
j-disabilities‎ (4)
jp-lbgtq‎ (4)
ya-graphic‎ (4)

ya-historical-fiction‎ (4)
j-creepy‎ (3)
ya-non-fiction‎ (3)
ya-science-fiction‎ (3)
j-lgbtq‎ (2)
j-survival‎ (2)
ya-biography‎ (2)
adult-graphic-novel‎ (1)
j-memoir‎ (1)
jbb‎ (1)
ya-coming-of-age‎ (1)
ya-mystery‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Karen is Currently Reading

Karen is currently reading

Ghost (Track, #1)

by Jason Reynolds

bookshelves: currently-reading, j-fiction, book-club-ages-9-12

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Feb 12, 2018 01:12PM

Karen is currently reading

Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times

by Andrew D. Kaufman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Aug 28, 2016 05:48PM

Karen is currently reading

Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature

by Betsy Bird (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Oct 25, 2014 01:02PM

Karen’s Quotes

“They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

88 likes

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

tags: lies, lying, truth

1119 likes

“I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

53 likes

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”
― Dorothy Allison

74 likes

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

1799 likes

More of Karen’s quotes…