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2023
My Year in Books
9,604
pages read
45
books read


Galateia by Madeline Miller
Shortest Book
72
pages
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Longest Book
429
pages

Average book length in 2023
213
pages

Ben, Kirke by Madeline Miller
Most Shelved
2,489,245
people also shelved
Sen Ne Yap Biliyor Musun? [Paperback] Dr. Meriç E. Bebitoğlu by Meric E. Bebitoglu
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved

Burak’s average rating for 2023
3.9
3.9

Spinoza'nın Sevinci Nereden Geliyor? by Çetin Balanuye
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.38 average

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Burak’s first review of the year

really liked it
Pinocchio says,

Accept and speak your own truth. Do your work in this world. Be disciplined and be aware of distractions. Do not accept defeat. Failure is normal and is part of the process. Get up and keep walking. Accept help and be appreciative in return. Learn. Serve others. Offer gifts and they will return to you many-fold. Follow your hope. Follow when you see light. (Did I mention?) Speak your truth! You cannot live your life pretending, wit
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BURAK’S 2023 BOOKS
Spinoza by Roger Scruton
Anlama Yetisinin Düzeltilmesi Üzerine İnceleme - Tractatus de... by Baruch Spinoza
The Discovery of Being by Rollo May
Nadja by André Breton
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Galateia by Madeline Miller
Ben, Kirke by Madeline Miller
it was amazing
Kalevala by Kirsti Mäkinen
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen
it was amazing
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Un homme qui dort by Georges Perec
Introducing Game Theory by Ivan Pastine
Ikigai by Héctor  García
Spinoza Üzerine Onbir Ders by Gilles Deleuze
Kısa İnceleme by Baruch Spinoza
The Satyricon by Petronius
The Ikigai Journey by Héctor  García
Âdem ile Havva’nın Güncesi by Mark Twain
Hermeneutic Communism by Gianni Vattimo
Üç Habitus - Yeryüzü, Kent, Yapı by Jale Nejdet Erzen
Şarap ve Tanrı - Kendi Ağzından Dionysos'un Hikâyesi by Kamil Sarhanlı
Spinoza by Gilles Deleuze
it was amazing
Heidegger'de Zaman Üzerine by Ahmet Soysal
Medusa by Rosie Hewlett
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Felsefeye Giriş by Ahmet Arslan
Kur'an, İncil ve Tevrat'ın Sumer'deki Kökeni by Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
İbrahim Peygamber by Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
it was amazing
Technologies of the Self by Michel Foucault
Husserl’s Phenomenology by Dan Zahavi
Phenomenology by Dan Zahavi
Spinoza'nın Sevinci Nereden Geliyor? by Çetin Balanuye
Sen Ne Yap Biliyor Musun? [Paperback] Dr. Meriç E. Bebitoğlu by Meric E. Bebitoglu
A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Herakleitos by Samih Rifat
it was amazing
Fragmanlar by Heraclitus
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Burak’s last review of the year

liked it
My least favorite interpretation of Tao Te Ching so far. I was hoping to hear more from Ursula; perhaps she holds herself back, perhaps she wants to talk to the political field for some reason, and whatever the reason, too many of her interpretations suffer from this political stitching. I think this is a problem because Tao Te Ching is a book that is spoken in a political context to begin with, yani, it talks directly to the rulers, as it delves ...more
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