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Ken’s 2022 Year in Books
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Ken Oder
Goodreads Author
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The Closing (Whippoorwill Hollow, #1)
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2014
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The Judas Murders (Whippoorwill Hollow, #3)
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Old Wounds to the Heart (Whippoorwill Hollow, #2)
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2015
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Keeping the Promise
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The Princess of Sugar Valley
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The Old Bull
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2016
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Cats
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O Encerramento
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The Closing
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Daisy’s Kin
Wyant’s StoreI was fourteen years old, and we’d just moved into the parsonage in White Hall, Virginia. I was walking down the road to Wyant’s Store when a girl about my age came speeding up behind me on a fire-engine-red bicycle and almost ran me down. I jumped into the ditch as she raced by, laughing.
When I got to the store, she stood in the back by the drink machine sipping an orange Nehi. She t
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| The writing is beautiful, spare, clean. A couple meets in a bar in the wilderness of Alaska in the 1950's. A Korean veteran in his late twenties, he has a homestead claim on 150 acres. She's 18, lonely, looking for purpose. They marry barely knowing ...more | |
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| This novel is based on the author's youth in Nelson County, Virginia, which he later adapted to create the long running television program, The Waltons. I grew up within 30 miles of Hamner's home. Friends knew his family and spoke of them often. The ...more | |
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| This story surprises in many ways. Centering on four women who cover up the murder of an abusive husband, the plot takes you inside the minds of four women straining against the Japanese culture's suppression of women, trapped in a bizarre situation. ...more | |
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| The writing is superb, but the story is depressing, the protagonist cold, flat, and inhuman, the plot contrived to a fault, the conclusion predictable from page 1. Takes the theory of aromatherapy to a preposterous level. I learned a lot about the ch ...more | |
“The same hideous cat-piss-scented, lime-green carpet that polluted the lobby graced the floor.”
― The Judas Murders
― The Judas Murders
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”
― The Killing of the Tinkers
― The Killing of the Tinkers
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
“The old forests are going and once they are gone we will have to wait a thousand years or more to see their like. Though nothing will be allowed such a generous measure of time to grow.”
― Barkskins
― Barkskins
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Ken, thank you for accepting my friend request.I've downloaded and look forward to reading The Closing.
Wishing you the very best!
