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Karen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Karen A. Wyle
Goodreads Author
Born
in Hartford, CT, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
February 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/kawyle
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Twin-Bred (Twin-Bred #1)
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2011
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8 editions
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What Heals the Heart (Cowbird Creek, #1)
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Wander Home
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2012
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3 editions
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The Baby
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2011
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2 editions
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Division
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2013
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3 editions
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You Can't Kiss A Bubble
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2021
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3 editions
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Reach (Twin-Bred, #2)
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That the Dead May Rest
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Playback Effect
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2014
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3 editions
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What Frees the Heart (Cowbird Creek, #2)
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Back to Cowbird Creek, With a Corrected Excerpt
As I'll say in today's Substack post, now that I've survived Release Day for my paranormal horror-adjacent novel, I'm returning to my historical romance series Cowbird Creek. Looking up some character details in earlier books, I came upon an excerpt involving chicken soup (not in any way related to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series) and decided to read it just for the fun of it. Except when I
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| Dark YA is a hard sub-genre to pull off. Some authors go the route of drenching the reader in explicit sex scenes. (This approach seems to make up a large percentage of "romantasy.") Schwab, to her credit, doesn't take that escape. Her POV character ...more | |
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| This is a middle-grade book adults can also enjoy, as long as the somewhat on-the-nose messaging toward the end doesn't annoy them too much. It's quite suspenseful, which may be too much for the sort of kids who grow up into suspense wimps like me. . ...more | |
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Karen A. Wyle
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The Faraway Inn
by Sarah Beth Durst (Goodreads Author)
5 copies
available, ends on
February 12, 2026
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“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!”
― Twin-Bred
― Twin-Bred
“For now, as he drifted toward dreaming, what came to him were not images of grappling and lust, but a sort of phantom copy of the bed where he lay, a dream of future days where he shared such a bed with a woman who had a claim on him, and who claimed him in return.”
― What Heals the Heart
― What Heals the Heart
“Joshua Gibbs felt sun on his face and thought about opening his eyes. He decided to wait. He had some blessings to savor that wouldn’t need sight.”
― What Heals the Heart
― What Heals the Heart
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Making Connections: Karen Wyle | 1 | 18 | May 08, 2012 06:40PM | |
Writers and Readers :
Q and A with author Karen A. Wyle
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45 | 42 | Jun 17, 2012 07:21PM | |
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Shut Up & Read:
Looking for Authors to feature on our Blog!
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17 | 74 | Jun 30, 2012 12:59PM | |
| The Pen Is Mighti...: All things Lynxie | 19 | 46 | Dec 10, 2012 06:14PM | |
| Making Connections: 563. WANDER HOME by Karen Wyle | 8 | 91 | Mar 27, 2013 07:34PM | |
| Making Connections: 1831. DIVISION by Karen A. Wyle | 1 | 10 | Nov 02, 2013 01:41PM | |
| Making Connections: 635. WANDER HOME by Karen A. Wyle | 9 | 231 | Nov 24, 2013 01:00PM | |
| Goodreads Authors...: DO NOT POST ON THIS THREAD! LINK IS PROVIDED IN FIRST MESSAGE!!! | 71 | 343 | Mar 06, 2014 04:53PM | |
| Making Connections: 5045. - THE LINK by Karen A. Wyle | 5 | 17 | Jan 07, 2018 08:29AM | |
| Making Connections: 5521. - WHAT HEALS THE HEART by Karen A. Wyle | 4 | 8 | Aug 02, 2019 06:04PM |
“...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.”
― Roderick Hudson
― Roderick Hudson
“I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better."
The lady gave a discriminating smile.
“I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
The lady gave a discriminating smile.
“I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
“Her desire to think well of herself had at least the element of humility that it always needed to be supported by proof.”
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