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2023
My Year in Books
19,757
pages read
47
books read


Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Shortest Book
116
pages
Port William Novels & Stories (The Civil War to World War II) by Wendell Berry
Longest Book
1,231
pages

Average book length in 2023
420
pages

1984 by George Orwell
Most Shelved
8,968,218
people also shelved
Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament by Serge Ruzer
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved

Samuel’s average rating for 2023
4.0
4.0

The Torah Unabridged by William A. Tooman
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
it was amazing
5.00 average

Remembering by Wendell Berry

Samuel’s first review of the year

it was amazing
I will continue to say that Berry's fiction is dangerous literature. Another installment in the tales of the membership of Port William, this story of a day in Andy Catlett's adult life is full of gripping memories that swirl in his head, whether they are Andy's memories or not. After the traumatizing loss of his right hand in a farming accident, Andy has reeled in pity, shame, and anger until his own Dark Night of the Soul. It is this very act o ...more

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Remembering by Wendell Berry
it was amazing
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Port William Novels & Stories (The Civil War to World War II) by Wendell Berry
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Arafat by Saïd K. Aburish
Killing Of Butterfly Joe by Rhidian Brook
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
it was amazing
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
That Distant Land by Wendell Berry
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament by Serge Ruzer
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
A Place in Time by Wendell Berry
1984 by George Orwell
really liked it
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
My Life As A Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
How It Went by Wendell Berry
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
From Gods to God by Avigdor Shinan
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
The Torah Unabridged by William A. Tooman
it was amazing
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative by Hans W. Frei
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Irish Ghost Stories by Rosemary Gray
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Stoner by John  Williams
it was amazing
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Fratricides by Nikos Kazantzakis
Fairy Tale by Stephen        King
Augustus by John  Williams
Ghost on the Throne by James Romm
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Jacob by Yair Zakovitch
really liked it

Jacob by Yair Zakovitch

Samuel’s last review of the year

really liked it
This was another fantastic piece of scholarship by Zakovitch. His eye for the literary dynamics of Biblical Narrative are so impressive. The Jacob story is a fascinating one on any number of grounds, and Zakovitch brings out all of its complexities and intricacies with engaging prose.

High recommendation to anyone interested in Hebrew Bible scholarship.
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