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2023
My Year in Books
12,190
pages read
27
books read
Tim


Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Shortest Book
123
pages
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Longest Book
976
pages

Average book length in 2023
451
pages

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Most Shelved
2,539,143
people also shelved
The Night of Broken Glass by Uta Gerhardt
Least Shelved
224
people also shelved

Tim’s average rating for 2023
4.1
4.1

A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.34 average

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Tim’s first review of the year

it was ok
Too mushy for me. An oddball little boy whose father died on 9/11 is the narrator and if you don't find him charming this simply won't work. For me charm has to be effortless to be successful. Here all the charm felt overly contrived. ...more

TIM’S 2023 BOOKS
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
it was amazing
The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross
Libra by Don DeLillo
The Night of Broken Glass by Uta Gerhardt
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Espedair Street by Iain Banks
The Trees by Percival Everett
it was amazing
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Ulysses by James Joyce
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
it was amazing
Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Running Dog by Don DeLillo
King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
NW by Zadie Smith
King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare

King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare

Tim’s last review of the year

really liked it
As is the case with the first two parts there is more crowd pleasing high drama than poetry. But he's beginning to develop a couple of the archetypes he will master so brilliantly later in his career - notably the purposeful wife who dominates her husband and the two-faced sneak set about bringing down those more powerful than he is. This is Richard the third, the most compelling character in this play and the focal point of his next work. ...more
2023 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Tim read 27 out of 25 books.
 
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