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Karen is Currently Reading

Karen is currently reading

Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)

by C.G. Drews (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2026, audio-books, books-i-own-challenge, horror, currently-reading

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

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Karen’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for High Voltage (Fever, #10)

High Voltage (Fever, #10) by Karen Marie Moning

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Life-giving, life-stealing, beautiful, a challenge to handle, worth learning to ride, full of fresh wonders every day—if he’d had a woman like the ocean in his bed, he’d still be there.

“Now that my ladder’s gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart,” I recite from Yeats’s The Circus Animals’ Desertion.”
― Jennifer Givhan, River Woman, River Demon

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“I’d like to see if an excess of irony can actually kill a man.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

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“Let’s go rattle the stars.” CHAPTER”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

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“People are only invincible in books,” said Cordelia. “I think you will find most of the time, not even then,” said Tessa. “But at least we can always pick up a book and read it anew. Stories offer a thousand fresh starts.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

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“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

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