What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
123
pages
Longest Book
698
pages
Average book length in
2023
305
pages
Most Shelved
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Richard’s
average rating for
2023
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00
average
Richard’s first review of the year
it was amazing
This novel was all over the place, and I loved it. Even unfocused McCarthy is still magnificent. We are mainly following the wanderings of a salvage diver named Bobby Western, who is grieving his dead sister and being pestered by some shady government types. The book is set up like a thriller but never gets there, instead meandering between some great set pieces (I particularly liked the sequence on the offshore oil rig), extended conversations b
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RICHARD’S
2023
BOOKS
it was amazing
it was amazing
Richard’s last review of the year
it was amazing
I'm not huge fan of the detective/police investigation genre. Often they're just a series of interrogations, which can get boring, especially when, like me, you're never that interested in who did what to whom when or who the real killer is. That said, a good writer can spin dross into gold, and Camilleri is good writer. I read these mainly because I was going on a trip to Sicily and, coincidently, spending time in the area of the country where t
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