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Katie is Currently Reading

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The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

by Donald Maass

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Star Shipped

by Cat Sebastian (Goodreads Author)

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"I have an ARC of this and it publishes *checks notes* next week so I should probably get going" — Feb 24, 2026 08:36AM

Feb 24, 2026 08:34AM

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In a Second (Friendship, Rhode Island #3)

by Kate Canterbary (Goodreads Author)

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"Enjoying this, but the pages in my copy are falling out at random intervals so I've requested a replacement and it is annoying me enough that I'm going to wait to continue until the new copy arrives." — Jan 02, 2026 09:16AM

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Katie’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help by K.C. Davis

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If you are crying right now, this book is for you.

Katie’s Quotes

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton

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“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
― Patricia A. McKillip

tags: imagination

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“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: ghosts, haunt

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“So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body” is our breath, because breath is the only thing that all human bodies experience and as such, it is something we all must share, not just with each other, but, in one way or another, with all living things on earth. To this day, I still can’t think of a better way of truly breaking us free from the visual rut that the canon of Western art has left us languishing in, than the breath of an Indigenous Australian woman.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

tags: art, the-body, western-art

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