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2023
My Year in Books
9,572
pages read
30
books read


Chant by Katharine Le Mée
Shortest Book
169
pages
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
Longest Book
653
pages

Average book length in 2023
319
pages

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Most Shelved
5,245,244
people also shelved
Chant by Katharine Le Mée
Least Shelved
82
people also shelved

Julian’s average rating for 2023
3.1
3.1

Uzumaki by Junji Ito
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.45 average

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Julian’s first review of the year

it was amazing
exactly what i needed rn.

is paced more like an anthology series than one singular character-driven storyline so if you want a more strict, focused plotline to follow you might not enjoy this so much. i personally don't care though, i loved it. i actually drew some spirals in my sketchbook because i was thinking about this so i guess i'm haunted now too LMAO
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JULIAN’S 2023 BOOKS
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
it was amazing
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Chant by Katharine Le Mée
Jewish Body by Melvin Konner
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
Shiver by Junji Ito
really liked it
Venus in the Blind Spot by Junji Ito
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Remina by Junji Ito
The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito
Stories for Boys by Gregory  Martin
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil by Marcie Cohen Ferris
Sensor by Junji Ito
Gyo by Junji Ito
Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges
Faking It by Hugh Barker
Deserter by Junji Ito
Dvorak's Prophecy by Joseph Horowitz
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
It's All About the Bike by Robert Penn
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
it was amazing
Marc Chagall by Jonathan Wilson
The Dark Half by Stephen        King
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Pageboy by Elliot Page

Julian’s last review of the year

wanted to like it more than i did. lot going on here but i don't feel it gelled into a cohesive work for me. famously i love nonlinear chronology but the pacing and structure of the nonlinearity here felt less like an intentional thematic choice and more scattered and unfocused. i think the nonlinearity could've been really good! but it wasn't executed in a way that worked for me. i always have complicated feelings about memoirs due to the inhere ...more
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