What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
9
pages
Longest Book
672
pages
Average book length in
2023
269
pages
Most Shelved
2,142,971
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
0
people
also shelved
Carla’s
average rating for
2023
3.5
3.5
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00
average
Carla’s first review of the year
really liked it
I loved these short stories. Yes, I tend to enjoy short stories anyway as I admire how an author can set the scene, start and conclude a plot and provide us with a good sense of the main character in so few pages. That was what Mary Grand did here, and did it well. The stories are vignettes in the lives of four women and they all resonated with me for different reasons and at least one of these four stories would captivate most readers.
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Carla’s last review of the year
it was amazing
This was a difficult story for Elvira Cordileone to write. Most immigrant families hide family abuse and mental illness in a cone of silence. As the oldest child, she was born in Italy, but has some memories of her time in Campochiaro before they immigrated to Canada in 1952 and her two younger siblings were born soon after that in Montreal.
What she remembers most are the years after they moved to Canada and her father was angry, controlling and ...more
What she remembers most are the years after they moved to Canada and her father was angry, controlling and ...more
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE
Carla
read
204
out of
200
books.
102%
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