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2025
Year in Books
19,659
pages read
Karen
60
books read
Karen
Tango by Terry Godbey
Shortest Book
66
pages
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Longest Book
496
pages
Average book length in 2025
327
pages
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Most Shelved
2,450,020
people also shelved
Tango by Terry Godbey
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved
Karen’s average rating for 2025
3.6
3.6
Tango by Terry Godbey
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
One by One by Freida McFadden

Karen’s first review of the year

liked it
This book was on a shelf in a B&B I spent a few days in. I'm not a big fan of modern TV, so to entertain myself in the evening I picked this book up because it looked like something I could read quickly and that might have a decent story. It's okay, and a quick read, but some of the plot elements—more like most of them, really—beggar belief. Other reviewers have already pointed those out, so I won't repeat them. ...more
KAREN’S 2025 BOOKS
One by One by Freida McFadden
Different Class by Joanne Harris
really liked it
Delphine Jones Takes a Chance by Beth Morrey
The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth
Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander
Broken Light by Joanne Harris
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
No Place to Die by Clare Donoghue
Dietland by Sarai Walker
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
The Last Child by John Hart
The Hush by John Hart
Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
it was amazing
Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai
The Old Place by Bobby Finger
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
To the Birdhouse by Cathleen Schine
How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell
it was amazing
Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
A Well-Trained Wife by Tia Levings
it was amazing
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 by Lisa Unger
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
You Deserve to Know by Aggie Blum Thompson
Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
it was amazing
Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight
Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering
Say Everything by Ione Skye
The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
Guess Again by Charlie Donlea
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Tango by Terry Godbey
it was amazing
What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter
really liked it
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
The Likeness by Tana French
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

Karen’s last review of the year

did not like it
The plot is basic, and the writing lacks craft: little to no insight, no sensory detail, no character development. On a sentence level, the writing seems robotic, with the most basic of sentence structure and word choice. I kept reading because I thought there would be a twist or plot complication, but there really isn't one that isn't projected from the start. Not for me. ...more
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