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Ken’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ken’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ken Oder
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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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The Closing
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O Encerramento
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The Killer Storm
On August 20, 1969, Cindy and I awoke at 2 a.m. to a roaring, pounding din on the tin roof of our house in White Hall, Virginia. We jumped out of bed and ran to the window.
Lightning streaked across the sky. Thunder crashed. Through a silver sheet of water, we could barely see the big oak beside the house, its thick branches bowed downward, a lake swirling around the base of its trunk.
“Hardest rain
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| Artie Dam made supporting cast appearances in other Strout novels, featuring his warm friendship with Flossie. Both are married to others and their relationship remains platonic in those scenes, although it teeters toward a physical romance at times. ...more | |
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| In my view, T.C. Boyle is one of the greatest writers of our times. This is one of his best works. I could write lengthy effusive praise here but it wouldn't do the novel or him justice. I'll just say No Way Home comes is almost as good as Tortilla C ...more | |
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| The story is a 5. For months I've read about the fears of the tech community and others that AI could ultimately destroy the human race. I've never understood how that could happen. This book tells me how it could unfold. The story is fascinating and ...more | |
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction, Readers' Favorite Debut Novel, Readers' Favorite Audiobook |
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In a college creative writing class, a student, Greg, critiqued one of Belle Burden's submissions. "She can't write," he said. Greg was wrong. She can write. Really well. And her story is riveting. For twenty-two years, she and her husband, James, are ...more |
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| Two major positives: The quality of the writing and the setting. The stark, direct, plain style tells the story artfully. It takes place in the wilderness of the Arctic Circle in Camp Dorset, a small village of mostly indigenous Inuit people, far to ...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!
