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Kara is Currently Reading

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The Salt King: A Novel

by Natasha Pulley

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy, horror, lgbtq, netgalley

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Jun 14, 2026 06:09PM

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

by Daniel Immerwahr

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

bookshelves: currently-reading, classics

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Dec 20, 2024 07:47PM

We do not even know what it is we do not know, and what we do know passeth speedily away, inundated by what we do not know; yet on we go through the ravines, gaping as we go; having come from salted water and all headed home again; leaving ...more

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Kara’s Quotes

“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

tags: adventure

240 likes

“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

564 likes

“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

tags: lies, truth, war

780 likes

“Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

tags: business, companies, competition

41 likes

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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