What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
151
pages
Longest Book
464
pages
Average book length in
2023
310
pages
Most Shelved
359,646
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
5,625
people
also shelved
Anne’s
average rating for
2023
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.47
average
Anne’s first review of the year
it was amazing
I’ve read this book half a dozen times over the years (it’s one of my urban planning favorites); this month I read the new 10th anniversary edition for the first time. Urban planner Speck’s General Theory of Walkability asserts that for people to choose to walk, the walk has to be useful, safe, comfortable and interesting. His premise is that when cities get walkability right, so much of the rest of the attributes we desire for our communities wi
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ANNE’S
2023
BOOKS
it was amazing
Anne’s last review of the year
Reviewed in the June 2023 edition of Quick Lit on Modern Mrs Darcy:
Our recent post 15 backlist books that feel like summer reminded me this book was lingering on my TBR. This 1972 novel by Finnish author Jansson (originally written in Swedish, translated by Thomas Teal) reads almost as a series of short stories about a grandmother and her 6-year-old granddaughter spending the summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland. The pacing is ...more
Our recent post 15 backlist books that feel like summer reminded me this book was lingering on my TBR. This 1972 novel by Finnish author Jansson (originally written in Swedish, translated by Thomas Teal) reads almost as a series of short stories about a grandmother and her 6-year-old granddaughter spending the summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland. The pacing is ...more
What did you read this year?
