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2023
My Year in Books
10,699
pages read
16
books read


Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
Shortest Book
220
pages
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
Longest Book
3,374
pages

Average book length in 2023
668
pages

1984 by George Orwell
Most Shelved
8,777,160
people also shelved
The Emerging Semantic Web by I. F. Cruz
Least Shelved
1
people also shelved

Peter’s average rating for 2023
3.6
3.6

King by Jonathan Eig
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.71 average

7 Powers by Hamilton Wright Helmer

Peter’s first review of the year

really liked it
Along with Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, this is one of the best books on Business Strategy.

In my opinion, though, it's helpful at describing a map, but not at navigating - the strategy described here is more static and focused on position rather than movement; how certain positions are protected, defensively, rather than how to assault them and attack.

So in many ways, this describes where you want to be, but leaves it as a bit of an exercise to t
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±Ê·¡°Õ·¡¸é’S 2023 BOOKS
7 Powers by Hamilton Wright Helmer
1984 by George Orwell
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Paradise Lost by John Milton
it was amazing
7 Rules of Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Emerging Semantic Web by I. F. Cruz
King by Jonathan Eig
Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard
it was amazing
G-Man by Beverly Gage
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

Peter’s last review of the year

really liked it
2024 Review:
"Everyone has, or should have, a desert island list against that day when, fleeing one’s enemies, one is cast ashore, or when one limps away, all warfare done, to pass the rest of one’s time quietly reading. If I could have one book, it would be a complete Shakespeare; if two, that and a Bible."

There may be never be literary critic to compete with Bloom; born before television, before phones, he was a poor Yiddish-speaking kid from th
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