What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
208
pages
Longest Book
pages
Average book length in
2023
340
pages
Most Shelved
370,433
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
62
people
also shelved
Katherine’s
average rating for
2023
4.1
4.1
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.61
average
Katherine’s first review of the year
really liked it
I really enjoyed this book but found it unsettling in many ways. I suspect this is by design. There are touches of the surreal, possibly because of the protagonist’s pill use, possibly because it is at times hard to tell which parts of the future he describes might be realistic and a little too close to current events. Overall, I enjoyed the wry social commentary woven into the story. However, it gets progressively more difficult to identify with
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KATHERINE’S
2023
BOOKS
it was amazing
really liked it
Katherine’s last review of the year
it was amazing
As a long term Northeast Denver resident with much experience teaching in schools in neighborhoods facing economic stress and other trauma, this book resonates with me. It tells a well-researched story of (some of) the struggles faced by a local activist as he worked to provide necessary supports to the children in the neighborhood where he grew up. Simultaneously, it paints an increasingly unattractive picture of how the political interests in t
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