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Karen Miles is currently reading

Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, #1)

by Olivia Waite (Goodreads Author)

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Family of Spies

by Christine Kuehn (Goodreads Author)

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“I wanted adventure, like my mom, but I always found excuses not to take them because I was afraid of getting hurt. Like Bilbo in The Hobbit, safe in the burrow of my home where no one but bookish villains and paper cuts could hurt me.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

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“Sometimes, a book can change your life.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

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“So who could blame me for sinking into books, where I knew the people weren’t real, but they also never disappointed me? I knew everything would work out in the end. I knew happy endings were destined, ever afters fated, and no matter what trials and tribulations and, well, surprise fuckups happened, things would end up okay. I just needed a story—or maybe a few hundred stories of happily ever after—to escape mine.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

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“I just didn't want to be here anymore. I wanted to get lost. I wanted to burrow myself somewhere out in the woods with my favorite books and a bottle of wine, and never see anyone again. Never have the opportunity to meet someone new. Never give my heart the chance to fall again.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

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“To remind us that like a starling’s song, all stories are different,”
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