Karen

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Karen is Currently Reading

Karen is currently reading

A Guardian and a Thief

by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: p-26-choice-nominee, p-choice-nominee, c-fiction, o-standalone, currently-reading, a-libby-borrowed, f-audio

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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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Nov 18, 2025 03:16PM

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Karen’s Quotes

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

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“I lack a sense of proportional response. I don't advise engaging with me on any level.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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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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“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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