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Karla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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361 books
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Karla Starr
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Buffalo, NY, The United States
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https://www.goodreads.com/kstarr
The Curse of Clarity: Why Numbers Experts Need Translation Help
You know that moment when you’re explaining something you understand perfectly and the person across from you just stares blankly? Welcome to the curse of knowledge—where expertise becomes the enemy of communication. Here’s what nobody tells you about being really, really good with numbers: the better you get, the worse you become at explaining them […]
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"Rationality spends most of the book length covering elementary concepts from a collection of subjects. Even when it comes to pulling them together for something original in conclusions, the book fails equally abjectly.
For some strange reasons, the au" Read more of this review » |
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"More Faerie Tales From Mary Poppins
“What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reaso" Read more of this review » |
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work:
"I both loved this book's wit and was frustrated by it. Overall, that's a good sign that there's lots of substantive content that's worth agreeing and disagreeing with.
Crawford's basic point that, contrary to popular wisdom, manual labour is not obsol" Read more of this review » |
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The Challenge Fac...: Dictionary Word of the Month-September Edition | 43 | 61 | Oct 19, 2018 03:58PM | |
| Booktastic Bookah...: About You Part 1 2018 | 7 | 22 | Oct 24, 2018 03:49AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Richo's Challenges to Get to 1,000 Books | 83 | 456 | Oct 28, 2018 05:12AM | |
Nothing But Readi...:
Level 8 of the Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
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15 | 197 | Dec 03, 2018 09:22AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Richo's 365 books for 2018 | 944 | 647 | Jan 06, 2019 03:57AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Let's Turn Pages - 2018 | 2167 | 1669 | Jan 12, 2019 04:17AM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: NBRC 26 Alphabet 4: The Bad, The Scary and The Terrifying: A to Z (Mixed) | 254 | 1082 | Dec 28, 2025 09:55AM |
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― True Love
― True Love
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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