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2023
My Year in Books
4,479
pages read
14
books read


War Year by Joe Haldeman
Shortest Book
128
pages
Killing Dragons by Fergus Fleming
Longest Book
416
pages

Average book length in 2023
319
pages

The Night Bird by Brian Freeman
Most Shelved
62,298
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Black angus by Newton Thornburg
Least Shelved
130
people also shelved

Eric_W’s average rating for 2023
4.1
4.1

A Wing and a Prayer by Harry H. Crosby
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.61 average

Black angus by Newton Thornburg

Eric_W’s first review of the year

really liked it
Feeling good today? Everything going along nicely? This book will knock out the underpinnings of that positivity. It’s depressing.

I really felt for this guy. Tired of city life, Blanchard and his wife use his inheritance to purchase a farm in the Missouri Ozarks (Thornburgh apparently had a farm there also — I truly hop this is not autobiographical.) , hoping to raise cattle. Beset by weather problems and low cattle prices, he's unable to get an
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ERIC_W’S 2023 BOOKS
Black angus by Newton Thornburg
War Year by Joe Haldeman
Project Azorian by Norman Polmar
it was amazing
The Voice Inside by Brian Freeman
The Night Bird by Brian Freeman
Killing Dragons by Fergus Fleming
A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey by Michael D'Antonio
Interference by Brad Parks
City on Fire by Don Winslow
City of Dreams by Don Winslow
Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout
A Wing and a Prayer by Harry H. Crosby
it was amazing
The Killing Zone by Paul A. Craig
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton

Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton

Eric_W’s last review of the year

really liked it
I like this kind of book. It’s an irreverent view of the geeks and misfits who created Twitter, perhaps the most used but least necessary software on the planet. That is, until Elon got a hold of it.

This book was first published in 2013 and so much has changed since then. Twitter (now X, in what has to be the silliest of rebrandings) has become perhaps less relevant than it ever was. Musk has seen the price fall through the floor and see value e
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