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2023
My Year in Books
28,141
pages read
Cindy Rollins
106
books read
Cindy Rollins
6 likes
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Shortest Book
65
pages
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Longest Book
960
pages
Average book length in 2023
265
pages
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Most Shelved
3,958,708
people also shelved
Slightly Foxed 78 by Gail Pirkis
Least Shelved
60
people also shelved
Cindy’s average rating for 2023
4.1
4.1
Beyond Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.74 average
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

Cindy’s first review of the year

really liked it
“It makes one very humble to see oneself surrounded by such a wealth of beauty and perfection anonymously lavished, and to think of the infinite meanness of our own grudging charities, and how displeased we are if they are not promptly and properly appreciated. I do sincerely trust that the benediction that is always awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and patience, and cheerfulness, just like t ...more
CINDY’S 2023 BOOKS
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
Slightly Foxed #76 by Gail Pirkis
The City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge
King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
it was amazing
Grass Widow's Tale by Ellis Peters
ARCADIA by Peter Grainger
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
Thrush Green by Miss Read
Keep a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Elliot
it was amazing
Endless Night by Agatha Christie
Madly, Deeply by Alan Rickman
Home Education by Charlotte M. Mason
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century by C.S. Lewis
Poetics by Aristotle
The Truth and Beauty by Andrew Klavan
Beauty in the Word by Stratford Caldecott
it was amazing
In the Year of Our Lord by Sinclair B. Ferguson
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves
Exiles by Jane Harper
Othello by William Shakespeare
Toward Jerusalem by Amy Carmichael
The Talisman by Walter Scott
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Offering Ourselves by Anne E. White
it was amazing
Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
The Survivors by Jane Harper
Slightly Foxed 77 by Gail Pirkis
Mourning Raga by Ellis Peters
P.G. Wodehouse by Frances Donaldson
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
Broken Harbor by Tana French
Dodger by Terry Pratchett
On Getting Out of Bed by Alan Noble
The Secret Place by Tana French
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Keep Your Love On by Danny Silk
The Oaken Heart by Margery Allingham
The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
it was amazing
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Playing Dead by Matthew Costello
Sackett's Land by Louis L'Amour
Slightly Foxed 78 by Gail Pirkis
The Convivial Homeschool by Mystie Winckler
it was amazing
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
Death Has Deep Roots by Michael Gilbert
The House of Arden by E. Nesbit
Dorothy L Sayers by Colin Duriez
The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
The Camera Man by Peter Grainger
it was amazing
The Match by Harlan Coben
A Deadly Confession by Matthew Costello
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Soul of Wit by G.K. Chesterton
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
it was amazing
Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin
Bridge to the Sun by Gwen Terasaki
Blade in the Water by Matthew Costello
Rainbow's End by Ellis Peters
Orienting by Pallavi Aiyar
A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie
The God of the Garden by Andrew Peterson
Dolly Madison Quaker Girl by Helen Albee Monsell
World Enough & Time by Christian McEwen
it was amazing
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Another Girl by Peter Grainger
Deeper Heaven by Christiana Hale
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Gold by Moonlight by Amy Carmichael
Slightly Foxed 79 by Gail Pirkis
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
it was amazing
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Death on a Summer Night by Matthew Costello
Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
Come Back, Barbara by C. John Miller
A Place Of Safety by Caroline Graham
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
A Christmas Legacy by Anne Perry
really liked it
A Christmas Revelation by Anne Perry
I Saw Three Ships by Elizabeth Goudge
The Piper on the Mountain by Ellis Peters
A Christmas Resolution by Anne Perry
Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple

Cindy’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Extremely readable and devastatingly sad. The consequences of modern thinking spelled out in minute detail. It reminds us that love might look quite a bit different than we assume in our therapeutic culture.
2023 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Cindy Rollins read 106 out of 100 books.
 
106%
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