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Karen is Currently Reading

Karen is currently reading

The Urth of the New Sun

by Gene Wolfe

bookshelves: p-hugo-nominee, p-nebula-nominee, p-locus-finalist, o-later-in-series, currently-reading, a-libby-borrowed, c-fiction, f-audio

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Jan 02, 2026 12:13PM

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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

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

read in January 2005

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Karen said: " One of my perennial favorites. I have listened to Rosamund Pike read it on my fall asleep list dozens of times. "

Dec 24, 2025 06:38AM · see review

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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

by Neil Sheehan

bookshelves: p-pulitzer, p-pulitzer-nonfiction, o-standalone, a-libby-not-avail, a-aud-owned, currently-reading

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

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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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“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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“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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