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We just wanted to survive. That’s all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn’t matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you
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“I couldn't imagine it was possible for something so beautiful to exist in the same world as me.”
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn’t loved, I wasn’t free, and I wasn’t safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.”
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.”
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“and I particularly loved biographies because they were about people who had to overcome obstacles or prejudices to get ahead. They made me think I could make it when nobody else believed in me, when even I didn’t believe in myself.”
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.”
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
2018 Mystery Mania
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— last activity May 10, 2018 12:06PM
This is a group to discuss the mysteries we read in 2018. We have put together a reading challenge list of 25 prompts to complete during this year. Th ...more
VICTOBER 2025
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— last activity Nov 04, 2025 02:35AM
Greetings all! Victober is a month-long readathon hosted each October all about reading Victorian literature. The Goodreads group remains in place, ...more
Lord of the Readalong 2020
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Maybe you've had the Lord of the Rings trilogy on your shelves for quite some time, but haven't yet read it. Maybe you've read it over and over and ar ...more
Geneva Alumni Book Club
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— last activity Feb 22, 2015 03:32PM
Hello friends! So, I've really been missing how easy talking about books with friends was when I was always surrounded by them at college. So I had a ...more
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