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2023
My Year in Books
30,221
pages read
Bloss ♡
90
books read
Bloss ♡
Leading with intention, Make the Difference you feel called t... by Christine Neidhardt
Shortest Book
29
pages
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Longest Book
640
pages
Average book length in 2023
335
pages
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Most Shelved
4,802,189
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Leading with intention, Make the Difference you feel called t... by Christine Neidhardt
Least Shelved
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Bloss ♡’s average rating for 2023
3.4
3.4
Leading with intention, Make the Difference you feel called t... by Christine Neidhardt
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.67 average
Hex by Jenni Fagan

Bloss ♡’s first review of the year

liked it
The story within this brief book is infuriating, heartbreaking, and deeply upsetting. How we still feel the echoes of which trials in society’s view and treatment of women!

While poetry and flowery writing isn’t my typical fare, the lyrical writing worked in this short book. The book itself reads like a hazy dream and can feel a bit heavy at times but ultimately, the artistic style works.

That being said, I’m glad I took Luckenbooth off my “Want t ...more
BLOSS ♡’S 2023 BOOKS
Hex by Jenni Fagan
The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal
it was amazing
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola
Little Sister by Gytha Lodge
The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Blackhouse by Carole Johnstone
She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai
it was amazing
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
What Dogs Want by Mat Ward
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
it was amazing
If I Let You Go by Charlotte Levin
Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Toll House by Carly Reagon
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves
Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
The Party House by Lin Anderson
It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
it was amazing
Homecoming by Kate Morton
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
HR Disrupted by Lucy Adams
The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone
The HR Change Toolkit by Lucy Adams
it was amazing
Edgware Road by KHAN Yasmin Cordery
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
The Boy and the Dog by Seishū Hase
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby
Severance by Ling Ma
Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
it was amazing
Mister Magic by Kiersten White
Burial of Ghosts by Ann Cleeves
Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
The Gathering by Lisa Stone
I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories by Julianna Baggott
Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
it was amazing
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Life and Otter Miracles by Hazel Prior
Three Card Murder by J.L. Blackhurst
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
it was amazing
The Creeper by A.M. Shine
The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
All Hallows by Christopher Golden
really liked it
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke
Are You Happy Now by Hanna Jameson
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Drift by C.J. Tudor
The Cat Who Taught Zen by James Norbury
The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
it was amazing
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
Leading with intention, Make the Difference you feel called t... by Christine Neidhardt
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

Bloss ♡’s last review of the year

it was amazing
4.5 I was a bit hesitant to pick this up as I haven’t found I gel well with “books about books”. Instead of gatekeeping, book snobbery, and pretension, I found a wonderful little community in the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop!

What I loved:
- The anti-work and anti-capitalist message! I wasn’t expecting this and it was glorious. Yeongju has the self-awareness that her shop existed in a capitalist ecosystem but decided to subvert that by refusing to sell bes ...more
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