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Katherine Arden

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A note to everyone who trips and falls upon my Goodreads page. First, welcome. Let us read and discuss all the books together. I review books I've read, everything gets five stars, if I didn't like it I don't put it up.

Second, Goodreads is wondrous, but contacting me through my Goodreads DMs is a good way to ensure a long wait for a reply. Your best bet is Twitter or Instagram (arden_katherine) on both.

Happy reading.

Born in Texas, Katherine studied French and Russian at Middlebury College. She has lived abroad in France and in Moscow, among other places. She has also lived in Hawaii, where she wrote much of The Bear and the Nightingale. She currently lives in Vermont.
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Katherine Arden As of January 2017--Book 3 of the Bear and the Nightingale books. Book 2 is in copyedits and book 3 is a lot of scribbles in a notebook!
Katherine Arden I do have a new book for adults coming, and as you deduced from my social media, I am in Europe doing research for it. I can't say a lot about it righ…moreI do have a new book for adults coming, and as you deduced from my social media, I am in Europe doing research for it. I can't say a lot about it right now, except that it is a standalone set in the early 20th century, and it will mix history and mythology somewhat in the way the Winternight books did. (less)
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Book Review: Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (aka the series opener to my favorite series)

Being a fan of Game of Kings—of any Dunnett novel—is a strange experience. The fandom is passionate, but of plenty of folks, understandably, don’t get what the fuss is about. Dunnett makes no concessions to readers. You have to think about what you are reading. With Dunnett, it’s important to consider the possibilities and implications of each interaction—which can take you out of the story.

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“Her conviction, born of long days and longer nights, was that if the world contained magic at all, then it could not also contain their war.”

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“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
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“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
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