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Kendra is Currently Reading

Kendra is currently reading

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan

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Jun 12, 2026 08:55PM

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People We Meet on Vacation

by Emily Henry (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: audiobook, fiction, ho-hum, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in May 2023

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Kendra said: " This is another book where I kept falling asleep while listening so I'm not sure I'm qualified to rate the whole book, but I got enough of an idea...and the main character is soooo annoying. To me, it seemed like she kept manufacturing her own proble ...more "

May 06, 2023 11:56AM · see review

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Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

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Jul 18, 2025 11:38AM

Kendra’s Notes & Highlights

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

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Online reward mechanisms beg to substitute for offline ones, and then overtake them. This is why everyone tries to look so hot and well-traveled on Instagram; this is why everyone seems so smug and triumphant on Facebook; this is why, on ...more

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Kendra’s Quotes

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: inspirational, life

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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational

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