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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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Karen’s Quotes

“There's nothing noble about suffering.”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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“Does any entity really know what it would risk oblivion for, until the moment has arrived?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void

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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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“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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“Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. —Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

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