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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.
Katherine Traylor’s Followers (57)
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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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Gods & Services
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Summerweek
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Five Stories for the Dark Months
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Spirits in the Dark
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The Ceaseless Way: An Anthology of Wanderers' Tales
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Katherine’s Recent Updates
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| I'm not sure what to think, because I think I'm still processing. It hasn't displaced Hill House from the throne for me yet, but it's a very interesting book that can be read lots of different ways, and I'm sure I'll be going back to it. I'm not sure ...more | |
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| The first half was absolutely stunning. The second half got a bit slow before picking up at the end, but it was still a very, very good read. There are two things I think would have improved it:(view spoiler) ...more | |
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| This was a fun, fast read. I've read Dracula twice before, and it's very clear exactly how much of its DNA came from this book. Honestly, in some ways I even enjoyed Carmilla more, because there was pretty much nothing in it that didn't need to be th ...more | |
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| I think I got most of it through my head, and I hope I retained some of it, but physics and geometry were the most difficult subjects for me at school, so I probably didn't understand as much as others might. I didn't realize that it was mostly just ...more | |
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| I don't really have much to say about this one. My book group was going to be reading one of the stories ("The Machine Stops"), and since it was a short collection, I read the rest of them, too. It was interesting, and some of the speculative element ...more | |
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| I finally slogged through it! "It's been 84 years," etc. I picked it up a few years ago, read a couple of stories, took a long hiatus, and read the rest of it this fall. The author was typically racist for his time and obviously had complex psycholog ...more | |
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”
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| I wouldn't call this quite a horror novel, but I went into it thinking it was one, so I came through it much less scared than I expected to be. There were moments of quiet dread throughout, though, and I really enjoyed it. I think I missed a lot that ...more | |
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| I haven't gotten far, but I think I'm going to give up on this one. It's just... joyless. Very dreary, with nothing appealing on the horizon. "Here is this character. He's not a good person, he has an unappealing personality, and he talks like an old ...more | |
“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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