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Karren’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karren’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Karren LaLonde Alenier
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| Beloved by Toni Morrison is a challenging read. It reminds me of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. ...more | |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral is a must read for our time under a corrupt regime. The cathedral in this novel is not sacred. No, it's a den of corruption that includes alcohol, drugs, and sexual exploitation. The conversation pro ...more | |
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| Brendan Slocumb's novel The Violin Conspiracy is good read for its story. I was impressed with how much music was in this story and that kept me reading for sure. It's a good crime novel as well. ...more | |
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| Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a deceptively complicated novel that deals with the profane and the sacred. As soon as you read the last page, you need to go to the beginning and start reading again. ...more | |
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| I liked All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby for its depiction of a rural Virginia town with its pettiness and its racism. Through the eyes of well educated Black man who comes back to his home town makes a hugh difference in how a newly elected sheri ...more | |
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| Isabel Allende's Ripper has a whopping number of characters but they are well drawn and not hard to remember. The basic tale is 2 fold: murders are happening in San Francisco that at first seem unconnected AND a group of mostly international teens ar ...more | |
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| While I enjoyed the way the words were laid down on the page, The Grey Wolf isn't Louise Penny's best storytelling. Lots of characters in part makes for a complicated set of actions. At the end of the book, I had no idea what had taken place. Even a ...more | |
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| Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade is a great addition to the work on Stein. I'm adding it to my reference shelf. Lots of interesting details. ...more | |
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| 25 Alive has the elements of a good crime story but Patterson and his co-writer lack the finesse to make this novel work. Often the wrong word is chosen. The short chapters are good but often there is nothing in them to carry along the story. The end ...more | |
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| Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado is like an operetta with accessible poetry and lyric repetitions. Amado is outstanding in capturing energetic joy as well as deep seated sadness. The last quarter of the novel gets very exciting with a near ...more | |
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sorry karren I have been feeling a bit under the weather lately, asthma is no fun. I'm starting to feel alittle better tho. I have always loved the raven, the highwayman, little boy blue, the duel, the walrus and the carpenter, and a poem called The Tale of Custard the dragon. I'm not well read where it comes to poetry, I like some of the stuff that are done by frineds on the internet but I find it puts me in a tailspin if I read too much of it...... I get kind of abstract lol. But I will try again soon.
Dear Sandi,what poetry have you liked/loved in the past? if I know that I can better recommend books to you. Me I always loved Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, some works by Gertrude Stein.
Pleased to meet you Karren, I love poetry but I have stayed away fromit for a few years b/c my brain seems to be wired sideways lol. I will take the time to read some of the poetry that you like, gently at first.
Karren, I love your cowboy hat! (Sorry cowgirl hat)