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Karen’s favorite books

On Writing by Stephen King The Truth About Stories by Thomas King Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren A Coyote Columbus Story by Thomas King Watership Down by Richard Adams Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
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Karen’s Quotes

A. Edward Newton
“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... We cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.”
― A. Edward Newton, The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections
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Lamb by Christopher MooreBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction


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