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Karen is Currently Reading

Karen is currently reading

Arrow's Flight (Heralds of Valdemar, #2)

by Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: o-later-in-series, currently-reading, a-aud-owned, c-fiction, f-audio, t-sleep-list

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 1996

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Jun 12, 2011 08:23PM

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Circle of Reign (The Dying Lands Chronicle, #1)

by Jacob Cooper (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: o-first-in-series, currently-reading

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May 26, 2026 01:37PM

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George F. Kennan: An American Life

by John Lewis Gaddis

bookshelves: p-pulitzer, p-pulitzer-bio, o-standalone, currently-reading, a-aud-owned, c-non-fiction, f-audio

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“Assassins are a monstrous breed. Either they attack when you are at your worst, or they are having a go at you on your birthday. I have never known a more dishonourable profession.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

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“What is DNA but lines in a narrative of our lives? What else is all our code? Our literature? They exist before we do. We exist to perpetuate them. To perpetuate story. We are mere vehicles. We tell a story with our bodies, our lives, then we die.

The story lives on.”
― Anton Hur, Toward Eternity

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“That there's no such thing as a coward, or a brave man—not out there. There's no man's will stronger than the war.”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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“What loves you is the best positioned to hurt you, because you let it in.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

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“This is fucked up,” Olli sent to Kit. “There is no further up to which it might be fucked,” was his considered reply.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation

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