What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
1
page
Longest Book
512
pages
Average book length in
2023
283
pages
Most Shelved
177,002
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
9
people
also shelved
Laurie’s
average rating for
2023
3.6
3.6
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.35
average
Laurie’s first review of the year
liked it
I wish we could see Penguin Books' delightful cover cartoon by Natacha Ledwidge (1986).
Aptly illustrated are "six superbly written humorous stories featuring Speedfall, the energetic, eccentric philosophy don at St. Patrick's College, Oxford," as he navigates the absurdities of academic life.
Of the six, I'd call "The Mongolian Gambit Declined" the most fun (if also the most over-the-top), "The Five Poster Bed" the most tedious (possibly precisely ...more
Aptly illustrated are "six superbly written humorous stories featuring Speedfall, the energetic, eccentric philosophy don at St. Patrick's College, Oxford," as he navigates the absurdities of academic life.
Of the six, I'd call "The Mongolian Gambit Declined" the most fun (if also the most over-the-top), "The Five Poster Bed" the most tedious (possibly precisely ...more
LAURIE’S
2023
BOOKS
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