What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
98
pages
Longest Book
866
pages
Average book length in
2023
313
pages
Most Shelved
1,249,117
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
4
people
also shelved
Jim’s
average rating for
2023
4.6
4.6
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00
average
Jim’s first review of the year
it was amazing
LOWDOWN ROAD replicates the experience of watching a drive-in movie in 1974, so much so that you should probably watch it while wearing blood-spattered, sweat-stained Western-cut clothes and eating a chicken-fried steak with a bottle of whatever's on sale as the local liquor mart on the discount tire emporium side of town. But its story is one that's plenty sturdy for any time and place, and in Scott Von Doviak's skilled hands, you'll happily tea
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Jim’s last review of the year
really liked it
Tim Johnston is still a bit too addicted to sentence fragments that read like he’s desperately trying to be the apple-cheeked apple-polisher of his MFA workshop, and a bit too infatuated with scenes in which emotionally stunted men smoke cigarettes and silently brood through haunted eyes into the hardscrabble middle distance. But at least he embeds his hyper-technique-y prose in something akin to an actual plot, with discernible story and charact
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