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2023
My Year in Books
22,516
pages read
78
books read
Leo


Hedra by Jesse Lonergan
Shortest Book
48
pages
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Longest Book
613
pages

Average book length in 2023
288
pages

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Most Shelved
2,984,808
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Isms by Emma Lewis
Least Shelved
160
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Leo’s average rating for 2023
3.6
3.6

Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія by Eugenia Kuznetsova
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.61 average

Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Leo’s first review of the year

liked it
Quite interesting book, and I can feel that author really loves Britain and it's people. Very atmospheric, and after reading I want to (re-)visit many places Bill mentions.
At the same time, what constantly bothered me is that he is often unnecessary mean to people around him. I understand that it was probably quite exaggerated for comedic effect (whole youtube careers are made on "shouting in rage"), but it was still nagging me a lot.
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’S 2023 BOOKS
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire
it was amazing
Effective Python by Slatkin Brett
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
The Systems Bible by John Gall
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Культурна експансія by Євген Лір
The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark   Richards
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
it was amazing
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere by Mike Carey
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
it was amazing
Лексикон націоналіста та інші есеї by Mykola Riabchuk
Monolith to Microservices by Sam Newman
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Isms by Emma Lewis
Severance by Ling  Ma
Погані дороги by Наталка Ворожбит
Patterns of Software by Richard P. Gabriel
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
it was amazing
Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
Architecture Patterns with Python by Harry Percival
Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick
Cloud Native Patterns by Cornelia Davis
Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
really liked it
Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Batman by Brian Augustyn
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments by Ron Kohavi
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Agency by William Gibson
Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks by Paul   Butcher
really liked it
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Empire by Niall Ferguson
The Lessons of History by Will Durant
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow by Bas P. Harenslak
Batman by Geoff Johns
Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
it was amazing
Hedra by Jesse Lonergan
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
City by Clifford D. Simak
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
it was amazing
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Moon Knight by Jonathan Hickman
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
SQL Performance Explained by Markus Winand
really liked it
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія by Eugenia Kuznetsova

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt

Leo’s last review of the year

really liked it
Listened to audiobook actually, narrated by the author.
It's a brilliant guide into modern UK politics - how PM, ministers and Parliament all work together to create the best political system in the world.. ok, got you, it's not actually "best", probably not even that great sometimes.
Book is very well structured, each department gets its own chapter, first explaining what are its responsibilities in general, and then goes into problems and failure
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