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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.
Ken Oder’s Followers (137)
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Ken Oder
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The United States
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https://www.goodreads.com/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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3 editions
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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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| I picked up a Baldacci novel several years ago and was immediately turned off by what I considered to be an exaggerated put-down scene where some sort of Jack Reacher character performed incredible feats of overkill. Not worth my time, I thought. Tos ...more | |
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| This is my first Ann Patchett novel. I will read many more. This one is a masterpiece. An ordinary situation develops during what appear at first blush to be unremarkable lives, but as the plot plays out, the situation is far from ordinary and the ch ...more | |
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| This is my first Ann Patchett novel. I will read many more. This one is a masterpiece. An ordinary situation develops during what appear at first blush to be unremarkable lives, but as the plot plays out, the situation is far from ordinary and the ch ...more | |
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| This is Vlautin's latest novel. It might be his best. Plain, stark prose about the working man carries you through the culture and rhythm of a house painter's life. Vlautin knows this terrain well because he's traveled it himself and he brings it hom ...more | |
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| There's the usual stilted language and jargon of the times that you encounter in period pieces. Discounting for that, this is a good story, starts slow but then pulls you in and holds your interest through a long trek across the life of a western fam ...more | |
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| This is the most exciting of the six books. It puts you on the edge of your seat for the entire second half of the book. Mike Kelly isn't completely believable in this one. He comes off as a cross between Superman and the Pope, but the plot is so goo ...more | |
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| Lynnette is poor. She's trying to get ahead, build a life for her worn-out mother and 35 year old brother with the mind of a 3-year-old. Her brother can't help; her mother won't help. Others steal from her; some try to kill her in the process. She fi ...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!
