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Katherine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katherine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Katherine Traylor
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Shirley Jackson, fairy tales
Member Since
July 2007
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/katherinetraylor
Letters from Sunday: Muffins, Gloom, and a New Anthology
(Thought I’d try writing here today. Maybe it would help to have a day to do it?)
It’s damp and chilly here in Prague. We breakfasted on English muffins with lemon curd, both bought from Marks & Spencer (I’m not sure, in retrospect, that lemon curd goes well with English muffins). We were at Václavské náměstí, where Marks & Spencer is, on an attempt to see Lucy and Selam at the National Museum. Tic
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Literally Dead: Tales of Holiday Hauntings
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Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea
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Once Upon A Wicked Heart: A Fiction-Atlas Press Villains Anthology
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Fish Gather to Listen
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Slightly Sweetly, Slightly Creepy
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Tiny Terrors: Spring 2025
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Five Stories for the Dark Months
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Katherine’s Recent Updates
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| Very beautiful, and very sad. Reading it really emphasized for me the mistake it was to think I'd learned "the important parts" of US literary history because I'd completed high school and had a literature degree. Apparently Baldwin was taught in a l ...more | |
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(Another Project Gutenberg read; I didn't read it in paperback.) It's okay. At the beginning, it's very similar to Austen, and I thought Ferrier was going to become a new favorite. I think she might have gotten a bit lost, though, because it wanders o ...more |
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Another Project Gutenberg read. I attempted this before Adam Bede but didn't think to write about it here. It wasn't bad. I probably got about 75% or 80% of the way through before getting bored and skimming the rest. It just got silly at a certain poi ...more |
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| I got to page 355 before giving up in disgust. I think this will be my last Jared Diamond book. I learned some interesting history from it, but it was clearer and clearer by the end that he was incapable of viewing the United States objectively, and ...more | |
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| I understand that this is a very important book. I think I got the basic message: that despite being privately owned and supposedly apolitical, the US media in effect act as the propaganda arm of the US government. I have definitely been convinced to ...more | |
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| Pretty good! My first Frances Hardinge. I really loved the first part: I had no idea what was going on, so every new development was intriguing. From the second half, once the protagonist had learned the Big Secret, it began to feel more like a stand ...more | |
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be”
― The Complete Poems
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be”
― The Complete Poems
“To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.”
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