Friday, January 5, 2024

2023 Year of Reading

 In 2022 I lowered by Goodreads reading goal to 75 and I kept the same goal for 2023. However, my Dad passed away unexpectedly in June of 2023 and that derailed a lot of things in my life. I was able to get back to reading but there were several weeks of not reading in the summer. At that point I decided that I didn't care if I met my goal and wasn't going to push myself too hard to try to meet it. Well, in December I really had a big reading month and realized I was 1 book away from meeting my goal. So, I did read a short book on December 31 just to meet my goal of 75. I also read 25 cookbooks this year. Here are my Top 10 books (mix of fiction and non-fiction), Top 5 cookbooks, and the Worst 5 books I read:

Top 10 Books

We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian

Cheap Land Colorado by Ted Conover

Waco Rising by Kevin Cook

The Woman They Wanted by Shannon Harris

Chenneville by Paulette Jiles

On Our Best Behavior by Elise Lochnen

All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore

Homestead Tsunami by Joel Salatin

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead


Top 5 Cookbooks

Still We Rise by Erika Council

Zucchini Love by Cynthia Graubart

The Ranch Table by Elizabeth Poett

Clean & Delicious by Dani Spies

Seinfeld: the official cookbook by Julie Tremaine


Worst 5 Books

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Feral by Emily Pennington

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

We Should Not Be Friends by Will Schwalbe



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