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2023
My Year in Books
16,311
pages read
Brad
65
books read
Brad
Mara, Vol. 1 by Cosimo Ferri
Shortest Book
48
pages
Centennial by James A. Michener
Longest Book
50
pages
Average book length in 2023
250
pages
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
6,193,437
people also shelved
CBS Radio Mystery Theater by Himan Brown
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved
Brad’s average rating for 2023
3.7
3.7
Boldly Stripped by Hazel Honeysuckle
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
Yendi by Steven Brust

Brad’s first review of the year

really liked it
Damn. I'd written this nice little meta-review about being a geek, and then some errant keystrokes backed me out of the review I was writing and everything disappeared. I don't have it in me to rewrite at the moment, so here are some quick thoughts.

•Vlad Taltos' little gangster turf war is the best part of Yendi, and I hope that we get a little more of that as the series goes on, although I sense that he may be getting closer and closer to going ...more
BRAD’S 2023 BOOKS
Yendi by Steven Brust
Toast on Toast by Steven Toast
Shift by Hugh Howey
Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon by Suzanne M. Desan
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Maniac by Harold Schechter
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
it was amazing
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Still Life by Louise Penny
really liked it
Turning Points in Modern History by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
CBS Radio Mystery Theater by Himan Brown
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Medicus by Ruth Downie
English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable by Lacey Baldwin Smith
Case of the Velvet Claws, The by Erle Stanley Gardner
Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall
Logan's Run by William F. Nolan
The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjöwall
it was amazing
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
His Cuckold Craving by GK Grayson
The Bat by Jo Nesbø
Jungle King by Jack Porter
The Fire Engine That Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall
The Boys by Matt Berns
Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Boldly Stripped by Hazel Honeysuckle
it was amazing
Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald
Stone Maidens by Lloyd Devereux Richards
Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjöwall
CBS Radio Mystery Theater by Himan Brown
Persuasion by Jane Austen
it was amazing
The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Arsonists by Max Frisch
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
The Abominable Man (A Martin Beck Police Mystery) (Martin Bec... by Maj Sjöwall
Dust by Hugh Howey
The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
The Locked Room (A Martin Beck Police Mystery)(Library Editio... by Maj Sjöwall
it was amazing
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants by Garrett Ryan
The End of Temperance Dare by Wendy Webb
Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
The Terrorists by Maj Sjöwall
CBS Radio Mystery Theatre by Himan Brown
Centennial by James A. Michener
The Great Trials of World History and the Lessons They Teach Us by Douglas O. Linder
Teckla by Steven Brust
Mara, Vol. 1 by Cosimo Ferri
November, Volume I by Matt Fraction
Mrs. Warren's Profession by Kaitlin Hopkins (narrator) ...
The Scar by China Miéville
it was amazing
The Importance of Being Ernie (and Bert) by Julie Kraut
Classical Mythology by Elizabeth Vandiver
A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark
it was ok
A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark

Brad’s last review of the year

it was ok
I only listened to the audio version of this because I recognized the cover of A Stranger is Watching from my mother's bookshelf during a 2-for-1 audible sale.

I am not a fan, that's for sure, but it was mildly interesting, and I did enjoy the characterization of the victims, even if Mary Higgins Clark created a killer that made absolutely no sense, and gave us the worst FBI agents ever assembled.

It is a murder novel. Murders happen, but who cares ...more
2023 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2023 READING
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