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Kara is Currently Reading

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My Name Is Emilia del Valle

by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, book-club, historical

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May 03, 2026 08:36AM

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Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)

by Uketsu

bookshelves: currently-reading, horror, mystery, thriller

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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

by Susan Casey

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"Ugh, I just feel like you should learn how to pronounce Hawaiian words correctly if you’re narrating an audiobook (and you live in Hawaii)." — Apr 28, 2026 05:59AM

Apr 28, 2026 05:57AM

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Kara’s Notes & Highlights

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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“The truth is we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears. We ...more

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Kara’s Quotes

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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“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

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“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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“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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“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

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