#booksof2023 — Public Fediverse posts
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By my count I finished 34 books this year, not counting ones read with my kids. These are 4 of my favourites, in no particular order: a biography of eccentric mathematician Paul Erdos; a self contained SFF epic about the future of religion; a fascinating look at bird intelligence; and a moving Australian sci fi story of virtual reality and the gap between those who embrace it and those who reject it #BooksOf2023 #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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My kind of holiday feeling. What are you reading to end this year in style? #booklovers #BooksofMastodon #booksof2023
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Just saw someone on YouTube talking about how they've read over 200 books this year. They read the last Series of Unfortunate Events books and Lord of the Rings LAST WEEK. They felt they were being stagnant and lazy because they haven't read anything in a couple of days?!
What in the internalised capitalism is this? Why are we turning reading into a productivity thing? Why are we measuring our hobbies and setting ourselves KPIs??
I'm gonna take things at my own damn place when I'm enjoying myself, thank you very much!
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#BooksOf2023 #19: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. This was a great, uplifting story about the friendship between a septuagenarian and an octopus that reads like a Fredrik Backman novel.
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#BooksOf2023 #18: The Happy Runner by Davis and Megan Roche. This was a great little book about being a happy runner. As someone who started running more recently, the book contained some good info that I hadn’t heard before.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #17: Fixit by Joe Ide. The 6th book in the IQ mystery series pulled together lots of threads from the previous books, but the story plodded along slower that I would have liked. I’ll keep reading the series, but the first two books remain the best.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #16: Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule. As someone born in the south and whose extended family still lives there, this book opened my eyes to some of the ways the “lost cause” is baked into southern culture. A must-read for anyone from the south or anyone who wants to learn more about the U.S.’s (particularly the South) continual struggle against racism.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #15: Saving Democracy by @DavidPepper. This follow-up to his Laboratories of Autocracy, is more of a user’s manual for both small and large steps individuals can take to help save democracy in the US.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #14: A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro. The 4th and final book in the Charlotte Holmes series, this book very nicely wraps up the story of Sherlock’s modern-day descendant. A great mystery read!
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #13: American Whitelash by Wesley Lowery. This was an excellent book detailing where our country has turned over the past 15 years and relates it to America’s racist past.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #12: The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff. This was an excellent read all about modern work and how having a “good enough” job that you can do well, but also gives you space to live your life.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #11: Keeper Of The Lost Cities #6: Nightfall. This series keeps developing and my kids have really enjoyed each of the books so far. They also keep getting bigger with this book hitting 790 pages and the next hitting 845.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #10: Francesca T. Royster’s Black Country Music. This was a great dive into the history - and present - of how Country music has a much deeper Black history than many people realize. It’s an excellent companion to Marissa R. Moss’ fabulous Her Country.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #6: Rich Blood by Robert Bailey. This legal thriller, similar to Grisham’s novels, follows an ambulance-chaser straight out of rehab who’s thrown into his first criminal case when his sister is accused of putting out a contract for her husband’s murder.
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@bookstadon #BooksOf2023 #6: Rich Blood by Robert Bailey. This legal thriller, similar to Grisham’s novels, follows an ambulance-chaser straight out of rehab who’s thrown into his first criminal case when his sister is accused of putting out a contract for her husband’s murder.
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#BooksOf2023 #5: Chris Pavone’s Two Nights in Lisbon. While he still hasn’t matched his debut novel, The Expats, this mystery/international kidnapping story is timely and leaves you guessing.
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@bookstodon #Booksof2023 #4: Shannon Messenger’s Keepers of the Lost Cities #4: Neverseen. Another solid book in the series I’m reading with my kids.
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Finished Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. Admittedly, upon starting, I had my doubts.
They were 100% misplaced. This is her best work thus far. This is not a slight on her first two books, which I do recommend. Just save this one for last. What talent she has.
So incredibly well done.
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#BooksOf2023 #3: David Pepper’s The Wingman. Second in a political thriller trilogy, this one was a bit slower than the first, but I’m looking forward to the third in the series. His nonfiction “Laboratories of Autocracy” is an excellent read.
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Really interesting excerpt from Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by David Black: https://lithub.com/what-prayer-wont-fix-how-the-black-church-perpetuates-white-supremacy-and-patriarchy/ #BlackMastodon #essays #bookstodon #BooksOf2023 #BlackOnBlack
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Took a break after the first book to read some manga/graphic novels including: The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese and The Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice by Setona Mizushiro, Give volume 7 by Natsuki Kizu, and Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville.