just kendra📚☮️🌈🪷

retired, consumer of information, loving mother to two amazing boys and proud wife

[just kendra📚☮️🌈🪷 @kendragallos]

@EliMcCann The one in his coat. The others need to be printed and framed in your house.

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@courtneyellis Klara and the Sun

[just kendra📚☮️🌈🪷 @kendragallos]

@yashar I will only believe it when their spokesperson issues a statement.

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@AudreyHurtburn Yes! My son didn’t speak until he was 3. He just babbled & drooled. He got speech therapy and occupational therapy that was paid for by the state as an early intervention. One day, he started speaking in complete sentences! He has severe ADHD & is a nurse now

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@SketchesbyBoze This is RECENT history!! My kids were in 4th and 5th grade reading books 4 and 5. They couldn’t wait to read them on their own.

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@AuthorGFAllen Absolutely! Elin Hildebrand and currently Kazuo Ishiguro.

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@SketchesbyBoze Listen, as much as I respect her, she lives in her head and I guarantee this publicity and requests for commentary came out of nowhere. If she had a good team around her, she would have just said thank you and moved on.

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@SketchesbyBoze @wren_and_paper I am very partial to Their Eyes Were Watching God but I also just read The Remains of the Day and…wow

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@SketchesbyBoze Your posts have made me seriously dive back into reading more. I tried Middlemarch but it was not for me. I enjoyed the miniseries immensely. I just finished Klara and the Sun and The Remains of the Day. Just started Never Let Me Go.

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@SethAbramson Can’t wait to see how much IP Grok steals to get this done.

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@Acyn His own people kept things from him???

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@CinemaTweets1 This actually looks really good

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@JoeBrunoWSOC9 It’ll be Nancy Mace…you watch

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@ForwardCarolina If it is privately funded, how can they move that money? Can’t they just run themselves?

[Judge Bob Orr @JudgeBobOrr]

A road trip to save democracy? These judges say it's worth a shot https://t.co/0HUEMe78Yj via @usatoday REALLY APPRECIATE SARAH WIRE "ENDURING" A 4 DAY BUS TRIP W/ A CREW OF RETIRED JUDGES. GREAT STORY AND A TREAT TO SHARE THE EXPERIENCE W/ SARAH. THANKS, @USATODAY

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

The Atlantic’s new cover story about the end of reading is absolutely frightening.

Here are 5 concerning facts from it:

1) 51% of adults read 0 books a year: According to the National Endowment for the Arts, which conducts the most comprehensive survey of the nation’s reading habits, fewer than half of all adults reported having read a book of any kind in 2022.

2) Reading for fun has gone from a mainstream hobby to a niche one: Americans who read for pleasure on any given day fell from 28 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2023.

3) Everyone is reading less: The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender, and education levels. Even the demographics that traditionally read the most—retirees, women, and college graduates—have seen a collapse.

4) Books are getting simpler and shorter: New York Times best sellers today have sentences that are about one-third shorter than they were a century ago.

5) Kids are struggling to read and doing less of it: Fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores have slid for the past decade. From 1984 to 2025, the percentage of 13-year-olds who said they rarely or never read for fun rose from 8 to 29 percent. "Every year older a child gets, the less they like to read."

For most of history, the biggest reading problem was illiteracy. People didn't know how to read books.

But today the biggest problem is post-literacy. People know how to read books, but don't.

A society that doesn't read loses more than just books. People lose the ability to think critically, focus deeply, and see life through multiple perspectives.

The world needs you. Please consider picking up a book today.

https://t.co/P8Sq3pAa6K

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@BrianBalfourNC I mean the BBQ festival is an institution and draws lots of people to our wonderful city.

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@oceaiii Literally my dream but no way am I going to potentially be the first person ever killed by one of those in the wild.

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@EliMcCann My husband is under direct order to through away socks with holes when he sees them in the wash. It makes me crazy to see my kids with holes in their socks!