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Karen is Currently Reading

Karen is currently reading

How to Get Away with Murder

by Rebecca Philipson

bookshelves: 2026, arc, mystery-thriller, netgalley, currently-reading

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A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)

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The Baby-Snatcher (Inspector Ramsay, #6)

by Ann Cleeves (Goodreads Author)

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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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“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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“There is nothing wrong with being kissed on the cheek by a sweet round woman in a café after you have nearly died.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

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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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“About how we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm—and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

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