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2024
My Year in Books
5,254
pages read
17
books read
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My Perfect Life by Lynda Barry
Shortest Book
127
pages
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
Longest Book
688
pages

Average book length in 2024
309
pages

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Most Shelved
109,962
people also shelved
The Battle of Versailles by Mark Bozek
Least Shelved
31
people also shelved

Joe’s average rating for 2024
3.5
3.5

Humans by Brandon Stanton
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.57 average

Welcome Home, Stranger by Kate Christensen

Joe’s first review of the year

it was ok
Welcome Home, Stranger follows successful environmental journalist Rachel Calloway as she returns to her childhood home on the occasion of her emotionally abusive mother's death.

Rachel copes with guilt over her mother's death, a resentful sister, a lustful ex-boyfriend, a divorce from her gay husband, the onslaught of menopause, the possibility of losing her job because she's "old", and her own mortality.

It's a short, breezy character driven nov
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´³°¿·¡â€™S 2024 BOOKS
Welcome Home, Stranger by Kate Christensen
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
it was amazing
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
Dark Fires by Rosemary Rogers
Come Over, Come Over by Lynda Barry
My Perfect Life by Lynda Barry
Mod New York by Phyllis Magidson
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Light Before Day by Christopher  Rice
Freezer Door Cocktails by J. M. Hirsch
The Astral by Kate Christensen
The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
The Battle of Versailles by Mark Bozek
it was amazing
Humans by Brandon Stanton

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

Joe’s last review of the year

it was ok
The Member of the Wedding tells the story of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams as she simultaneously experiences the growing pangs of puberty, and an existential crisis triggered by her older brother’s announcement that he is getting married.

Frankie’s mother died during childbirth and her father is an inattentive parent, so Frankie wiles away the hot summer days in the kitchen of her house playing spades and eating soul food with her housekeeper
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