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Karen Ng

https://www.goodreads.com/karenand3

Karen’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (26)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1967)
started-but-did-not-finish‎ (17)
added-by-hackers-wtf‎ (14)
non-fiction‎ (296)
family‎ (190)
all-time-favorites‎ (180)
advice‎ (156)
powerful-narrative-poignant‎ (145)
women-s-fiction‎ (132)
books-and-reading‎ (131)

loss-and-grief‎ (131)
memoir‎ (125)
brain-behavior‎ (123)
inspirational‎ (122)
21st-century-learning‎ (121)
history‎ (118)
aging‎ (114)
love‎ (113)
mother-daughter‎ (109)
humor‎ (108)
neuroscience‎ (107)
europe‎ (99)

asia‎ (94)
england-british-literature‎ (91)
fantasy‎ (87)
journey‎ (87)
sociology‎ (86)
page-turner‎ (84)
education‎ (83)
asian-american‎ (82)
information‎ (82)
friendship‎ (79)
father-daughter‎ (76)
community‎ (74)

child-narrator‎ (71)
children‎ (71)
coming-of-age‎ (71)
young-adult‎ (68)
thrill-ride‎ (67)
biography‎ (66)
medical‎ (64)
war‎ (63)
crime‎ (60)
health‎ (59)
science‎ (59)
new-york‎ (58)

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Karen’s Quotes

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

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“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

1121 likes

“Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

tags: logic, love

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“It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself.”
― Marcel Proust

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Karen’s Groups

Kinfolk Book Club — 35 members — last activity Aug 19, 2011 06:49PM
This is a book club for those of us who love to read and love to read on our Kindles.

Goodreads Librarians Group — 292741 members — last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Moderator Support Group — 2252 members — last activity 4 hours, 44 min ago
This group is for Moderators and Co-Moderators to discuss, ideas, solutions and the challenges of running a Goodreads group. You must be a moderator t ...more

The Study of the Mind: A Psychological Book Club — 2137 members — last activity Sep 12, 2023 04:49AM
This is a book club for those who love to read books about Psychology! Each month we will pick a book dealing with psychological topics, read it, and ...more

History, Medicine, and Science: Nonfiction and Fiction — 1522 members — last activity Jul 21, 2025 10:59AM
Discussion about the fascinating stories of our scientific and medical past

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