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Average rating: 3.55 · 29,276 ratings · 4,777 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Hole 3.33 avg rating — 10,944 ratings — published 2016 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plotters by Kim Un-Su, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 7,883 ratings — published 2010 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 6,288 ratings — published 2010 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Happy Time by Jiyoung Gong, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 2,801 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.37 avg rating — 3,156 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 2,331 ratings — published 2015 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-yong (artist), Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 1,917 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-yong, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 1,861 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Highway with Green Apples by Bae Suah, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.09 avg rating — 1,617 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young, Joungmin Lee Comfort (Translator), Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 1,138 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Life's not all beer and skittles”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

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“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”
― Danielle LaPorte

tags: big, edge, lose, loud, someone, true, you

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“Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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