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Kathryn is Currently Reading

Kathryn Barto is currently reading

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

by Lorrie Moore

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Dec 18, 2025 02:45PM

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We'll Have a Wonderful Cornish Christmas (Delightful Christmas #2)

by C.P. Ward

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A Lot Like Christmas

by Connie Willis

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Kathryn’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Nightmare Room (The Messy Man, #1)

The Nightmare Room (The Messy Man, #1) by Chris Sorensen

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“Back in my old man’s day, they had a name for women like you. Jezebel! Wonton women who spread their legs for any man who came sniffin’ their way.” He underlined this point with another slap. The woman’s cooing only grew in volume.

Wonton woman hahahahaha

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Kathryn’s Quotes

“Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes? ”
― A.J. Jacobs, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

tags: funny

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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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“So might I suggest at your earliest convenience that you pay a visit to the Okins Funeral Salon to make arrangements?"
"Why'd I wanna do that?" she says so damn snippy.
"Because on my return visit you can count on my beatin' the ever-lovin' shit outta you with a rusty shovel. Twice.”
― Lesley Kagen, Land of a Hundred Wonders

tags: humor, killer

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“When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“Never underestimate the power of a girl with a book.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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