What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
18
pages
Longest Book
692
pages
Average book length in
2023
234
pages
Most Shelved
4,713,192
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
14
people
also shelved
John’s
average rating for
2023
4.9
4.9
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.67
average
John’s first review of the year
it was amazing
In The Poppy War, Kuang set a gold standard for contemporary main characters, showing all the forces that pushed Rin into becoming what she was, with every deeply lived-in and thought-out turn of her life. In Babel, Kuang has matched her own standard with Robin, an adopted Chinese child in Britain, who is taken in to be taken advantage of by a powerful society, but who nonetheless is seduced by its privileges and struggles to see himself as anyth
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JOHN’S
2023
BOOKS
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John’s last review of the year
it was amazing
Of all the books I read to my nephew at bedtime in the last several days, this was a favorite for us both. The illustrations have a great balance of color and shapes, and there are just enough items for the kiddo to hunt for. The lines are verbose but playful and funny. I never minded being asked to read it again. Great stuff.
What did you read this year?
