Karen

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Karen’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (7721)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (5148)
did-not-finish‎ (9)
listened-to‎ (169)
currently-listening-to‎ (1)
ebook‎ (3073)
physical-book‎ (2981)
3-stars‎ (1675)
non-fiction‎ (1587)
library‎ (1469)
kindle‎ (1399)

crime‎ (1074)
mystery‎ (955)
2-stars‎ (866)
series‎ (839)
4-stars‎ (834)
historical-fiction‎ (666)
history‎ (524)
humour‎ (483)
2020‎ (423)
fantasy‎ (422)
2023‎ (379)
adventure‎ (375)

2021‎ (350)
book-bingo-2023‎ (349)
2024‎ (340)
2012‎ (337)
book-bingo-2024‎ (328)
2011‎ (314)
2025‎ (308)
2022‎ (305)
book-bingo-2022‎ (299)
favorites‎ (292)
audiobook‎ (290)
keeper‎ (285)

made-into-movies‎ (285)
thriller‎ (277)
2013‎ (266)
reading-challenges-2025‎ (264)
science‎ (250)
2019‎ (241)
cozy-mysteries‎ (230)
2016‎ (226)
action‎ (222)
fluff‎ (219)
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chick-lit‎ (214)

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Karen’s Quotes

“Gay probe coming to save me. Got it.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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“I admit it’s fatally dangerous,” Watney said. “But consider this: I’d get to fly around like Iron Man.” “We’ll keep working on ideas,” Lewis said. “Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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“Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.”
“Jesus,” Annie said. “None of you got laid in high school, did you?”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: elrond, high-school, laid, lord-of-the-rings

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“a packet of Jaffa Cakes is a binary object, by which I mean it has only two states: unopened or empty. There have been rumoured sightings of half packets, but the evidence is debatable.”
― Marty Jopson, The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine

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“I need to ask myself, 'What would an Apollo astronaut do?' He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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