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2023
My Year in Books
8,222
pages read
29
books read


Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Shortest Book
32
pages
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Longest Book
550
pages

Average book length in 2023
283
pages

1984 by George Orwell
Most Shelved
8,315,511
people also shelved
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang
Least Shelved
1,122
people also shelved

Bill’s average rating for 2023
4.5
4.5

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.38 average

The Performance by Claire Thomas

Bill’s first review of the year

it was amazing
This little quiet book slowly engulfed me with each chapter, the poignant revelation of how we perform our lives till the lines between reality and our inner thoughts blur. This is the case for the three perspectives we follow as they watch a Samuel Beckett play. Margot, Ivy, and Summer ( Early Seventies, Early Forties, and Early twenties respectively) as they comfortably or uncomfortably follow the play let us into their lives tinged with all th ...more

BILL’S 2023 BOOKS
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
it was amazing
The Performance by Claire Thomas
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
it was amazing
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang
Outline by Rachel Cusk
1984 by George Orwell
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
it was amazing
Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu
The Hierarchies by Ros Anderson
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
it was amazing

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Bill’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Oh, Ruth... How you've won my heart

Following two stories: Ruth ( a writer, residing on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest comes across a Hello Kitty lunch box washed up on the beach that contains a diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao we sort of follow both their lives through this small connection

A tale with an epistolary element between two women from different timelines sort of existing as one was beautifully thought o
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Bill Muganda read 29 out of 10 books.
 
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