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Shortest Book
89
pages
Longest Book
619
pages
Average book length in
2023
328
pages
Most Shelved
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people
also shelved
Least Shelved
105
people
also shelved
Parker’s
average rating for
2023
3.8
3.8
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.59
average
Parker’s first review of the year
really liked it
“At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.”
Starting off 2023 very strong! This book further proves that graphic memoirs are elite. Thompson's art beautifully depicts his most painful memories. He's one hell of a writer too. Reading Blankets is an intimate, often uncomfortable experience, but that's what makes it such an effective coming-of-age story. The romance is heart ...more
Starting off 2023 very strong! This book further proves that graphic memoirs are elite. Thompson's art beautifully depicts his most painful memories. He's one hell of a writer too. Reading Blankets is an intimate, often uncomfortable experience, but that's what makes it such an effective coming-of-age story. The romance is heart ...more
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Parker’s last review of the year
it was amazing
“‘How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.’”
Babel is by far the best fantasy that I've read this year. This is my kind of dark academia. It simultaneously embraces the aesthetic and wonders of Western scholarship but divulges an essential post-colonial critique. At the center of it, all is a complex, ...more
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.’”
Babel is by far the best fantasy that I've read this year. This is my kind of dark academia. It simultaneously embraces the aesthetic and wonders of Western scholarship but divulges an essential post-colonial critique. At the center of it, all is a complex, ...more
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE
Parker
read
51
out of
50
books.
102%
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