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  • I just made it to 52 books in 2022, more than I expected. According to Goodreads the average length was 393 pages and my average rating was 3.5 (with 3 being an average book).

    Highest rated books were Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (also the longest at 1,232 pages).

    Worst book was Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (read like a piece of GCSE coursework) followed by Starship for Sale by M.R. Forbes (a real advert against self-publishing).

  • Nice work! I hit 57 in the end after thinking I wasn't going to make it to 52 - I'm studying english literature which has ironically left me with 0 time for reading books, who knew? I always switch to comics in December which inflates my numbers, so that got me over the line :D (this year I read the whole series of Transmetropolitan, whose 90s edgelordery has not aged as well as I'd hoped).

    Rated 10 books 5 stars on goodreads(!), including Alan Garner's Treacle Walker and Lauren Groff's Matrix. My 1 stars went to Camus' Myth of Sisyphus ("live, laugh, love" for hipsters) and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (more 90s edgelordery that has not aged well, but with the addition of a genuinely bizarre religious cult plot that we're supposed to sympathise with?? Could not get along with at all).

    Hoping to keep things ticking over this year while I get through term, keeping plenty of comics handy for emergencies...

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