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2023
My Year in Books
32,884
pages read
100
books read


Snatched by Karin Slaughter
Shortest Book
67
pages
American Prometheus by Kai Bird
Longest Book
1,141
pages

Average book length in 2023
328
pages

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
3,083,116
people also shelved
Optimal Illusions by Coco Krumme
Least Shelved
1,167
people also shelved

Laura’s average rating for 2023
3.9
3.9

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.58 average

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  Perry

Laura’s first review of the year

liked it
I was never a huge *Friends* fan although I did watch it from time to time when it was on back in the day. This book is kind of all over the place, and often repetitive although it must have taken some major cojones for Perry to air all his dirty laundry. He’s wrestled with some terrible demons (alcoholism and narcotics abuse) and lived on the edge amidst the wild fame of *Friends* and the aftermath. After listening to the audiobook (which he rea ...more

LAURA’S 2023 BOOKS
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  Perry
Been There, Done That by Rachel Feltman
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
really liked it
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Butts by Heather Radke
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Chip War by Chris   Miller
The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis
Hysterical by Elissa Bassist
it was amazing
Joyland by Stephen King
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel
Magnificent Sex by Peggy J. Kleinplatz
Christine by Stephen King
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
Daddy Issues by Katherine Angel
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Bitch by Lucy Cooke
Finding Me by Viola Davis
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
it was amazing
While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
it was amazing
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Between You & Me by Mary Norris
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
it was amazing
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Drowning by T.J. Newman
The Wager by David Grann
Bonk by Mary Roach
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit by Mark Leyner
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell
Making a Scene by Constance Wu
Sex with Presidents by Eleanor Herman
it was amazing
Before She Finds Me by Heather  Chavez
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Swipe Up for More! by Stephanie  McNeal
really liked it
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Monsters by Claire Dederer
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
Unlikeable Female Characters by Anna Bogutskaya
How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
Adult Drama by Natalie Beach
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Laid and Confused by Maria Yagoda
Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa
it was amazing
Future Sex by Emily Witt
Open by Rachel  Krantz
Snatched by Karin Slaughter
Criminal by Karin Slaughter
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
it was amazing
A Boob's Life by Leslie Lehr
Rouge by Mona Awad
Sex Talks by Vanessa Marin
American Prometheus by Kai Bird
Holly by Stephen King
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
it was amazing
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Martin Bunton
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Except for Palestine by Marc Lamont Hill
really liked it
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz
Optimal Illusions by Coco Krumme
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Hands of Time by Rebecca Struthers

Laura’s last review of the year

really liked it
A very brief overview of the vast subject that is horology—the “study of time.” Not so much in theory, although we do touch on Einstein and relativity, more so about the way humans clock the passage. Beginning with the earliest recorded methods of tracking time through the evolution of time pieces and their socioeconomic impact on society (love, wars, wealth, exploitation, even life saving), Struthers packs a lot into 288 pages.

Informative, inte
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