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2023
My Year in Books
10,960
pages read
Amy
44
books read
Amy
Eve by Victor LaValle
Shortest Book
27
pages
Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
Longest Book
692
pages
Average book length in 2023
249
pages
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
6,231,593
people also shelved
Eve by Victor LaValle
Least Shelved
116
people also shelved
Amy’s average rating for 2023
3.7
3.7
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controllin... by Lundy Bancroft
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.56 average
Lirael by Garth Nix

Amy’s first review of the year

really liked it
This was definitely slower than I recall from earlier reads but I think I’m also a decade+ older and the depressed teenager is tougher to scrounge up sympathy. Still it’s a great sequel to Sabriiel - one that expands the world, pulls in characters and ups the stakes. It was disappointing at first not to pick up where the previous one left off (we jump forward 14years) but it works well.
This time around I feel significantly more for the Southerlin ...more
AMY’S 2023 BOOKS
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Lirael by Garth Nix
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
it was amazing
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar
Rave by Jessica Campbell
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Money Shot, Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
really liked it
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV
The Witches of World War II by Paul Cornell
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud
The Year We Turned Forty by Liz Fenton
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV
The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
really liked it
Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
Rivers of London Volume 9 by Ben Aaronovitch
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Batman by G. Willow Wilson
Monstress, Vol. 7 by Marjorie M. Liu
The Cull #1 by Kelly Thompson
A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
really liked it
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controllin... by Lundy Bancroft
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
The Sacrificers #1 by Rick Remender
Whiteout by Greg Rucka
Whiteout by Greg Rucka
Purr Evil #1 by Mirka Andolfo
Birds of Prey (2023-) #1 by Kelly Thompson
Earthdivers, Vol. 1 by Stephen Graham Jones
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
it was amazing
Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier
Eve by Victor LaValle
Batman by Katana Collins
Poison Ivy, Vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Amy’s last review of the year

it was amazing
After the conservatorship, I could eat chocolate again.

I made the mistake of returning this audiobook before snagging the (many) bookmarked quotes that jumped out at me but the one I remember above is a fine example of a few words that packs one of the many emotional punches that hit throughout this brief book and underscores the awful injustices perpetrated against this woman by so many.
I was never a Britney-stan, though she's my contemporary. ...more
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