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Kai is Currently Reading

Kai Gordon is currently reading

The Maidenheads

by Benny B. Peterson (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 30, 2026 08:03PM

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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker (Goodreads Author)

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Until August

by Gabriel García Márquez

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Kai’s Notes & Highlights

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica

1 highlight

I looked at the veins in my wrists and brought my finger to one of the blue lines. To purify.

Phantom Pond (Shady Hollow #4.5)

by Juneau Black

2 highlights
Katabasis

by R.F. Kuang

242 highlights

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Kai’s Quotes

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inner-strength, mahatma-gandhi, strength, will

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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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