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My 2023 Year in Books

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For the first time in several years, I completed my Goodreads Reading Challenge in 2023, reading 106 books with a goal of 100. That doesn’t mean I read more in 2023; my goal was just more realistic. So how much did I read? What did I read? And have you read any of the same books I did?

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Fever Dream

Although I proceed at almost the pace of Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk, I’m reading my way around the world. After reading Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John for Antigua and Barbuda at the end of 2021, the next nation on the list was Argentina. I ended up reading Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream. Months have passed since I read it, but it’s still just as sharp in mind as when I put it down. Which is to say, it’s pretty fuzzy.  early in 2022, but I’m only now getting around to writing about it.

Cover of Fever Dream edited by my kid to be even more feverish.
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