December Book Report

That’s a wrap on 2023

My Goodreads “Year in Books” says I’ve read 61 books this year. That doesn’t include re-reads of books I had already reviewed or the countless short stories and serials I’ve read on Substack. Of the fiction books, I loved The Girl with the Louding Voice (Daré), The Midnight Library (Haig), and Remarkably Bright Creatures (Van Pelt). Of my non-fiction selections Breath from Salt (Trivedi) was particularly valuable since my great-niece has cystic fibrosis. Favorite memoir: Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life. Most fun read: Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Most overrated: Lessons in Chemistry (Garmus).

I’ve enjoyed writing these reviews and I will continue in 2024. I hope you find them useful!

And here are the final reviews of 2023!

C.S. Lewis (2004). The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. [Audible] Narrated by Michael York. Original book published in 1950.

C.S. Lewis wrote, “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between” (Introduction to Athanasius: The Incarnation of the Word of God, 1946). He was referring to interposing classics with modern texts…