What did you read this year?
Anna’s
average rating for
2023
3.7
3.7
Full disclosure: I've never heard of Jennette McCurdy as I'm too old to ever have seen iCarly and have no children who might have ever watched it. However, I'm a sucker for a celebrity memoir, especially if it involves dysfunction. And lord, do we get Dysfunction. What a humorous way to describe so many problems, and to know that she's come out the other side alive and functional. I did yell at the pages a few times: Narcissist, Jennette, she's a
...more
The writing is very lyrical, and I struggled with the rating. I am NOT the intended audience for this novel. Whenever I read historical fiction, I think I will love it. But the deeper I get into such novels, the more disappointed I become. The history and SOME realities of the Soviet Union are very well presented here, but SUCH liberties are taken within the walls of the Metropol that NEVER would have happened in real life, it made it almost impo
...more