Karen

Karen’s Bookshelves

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currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (604)
fiction‎ (127)
history‎ (75)
memorable-women‎ (68)
historical-fiction‎ (67)
family-relations‎ (66)
mystery‎ (63)
crime‎ (62)
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romance‎ (62)

biography‎ (60)
humor‎ (59)
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technology‎ (49)
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politics‎ (40)
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war‎ (37)
art‎ (36)
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fantasy‎ (36)

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mental-illness‎ (17)
space-travel‎ (17)
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Karen’s Notes & Highlights

The Guncle by Steven Rowley

38 highlights

No, Patrick did not watch the news. No good ever came from the news.

Park Avenue Summer

by Renée Rosen

11 highlights
Shroud

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

16 highlights

See Karen’s 25 books with notes and highlights…

Karen’s Quotes

“A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

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“He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

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“The secret was loyalty to the White House and to the Presidency, rather than to whoever happens to be occupying the office for four years, or eight.”
― J.B. West, Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

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“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

tags: books, reading

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“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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