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- Page count<\/strong>: I read 27,566 pages. For comparison, last year I read about 18,000 pages in and 2020 I read just under 33,000. The most pages I’ve ever read in a year is 35,000 back in 2014 (when I had an office job and nothing to do all day).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Library use<\/strong>: 30 books from the library and 52 of my own books. Shout out to the library for saving me money! Thank you, local tax payers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Digital and analog<\/strong>: 49 ebooks and 33 paper books. I’m definitely finding it easier to read the ebooks than the paper books lately. For example, I was trying to read this giant book about tap dance and it was hard to hold and the print was very small. I am weak, give me the ebook. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Fiction and non-fiction<\/strong>: 56 fiction and 26 non-fiction books. I am only growing more interested in the world around me, so I predict that my non-fiction to fiction ratio will increase over the next few years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Instead of favorites, this year I am giving you some notable reads<\/strong>:\n
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- Notable disappointment<\/strong>: Battle of the Linguist Mages<\/a> by Scotto Moore. It sounds exactly<\/em> like a book I should love but I did not love it! I barely finished it!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notable linguistics-themed fantasy<\/strong>: Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution<\/a> by R. F. Kuang. This is the linguistics-themed fiction I want! Stick it to the fucking man!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notable history<\/strong>: Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings<\/a> by Neil Price. I don’t know, I just really liked it! It covered so much ground and was so accessible. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notably almost making me learn Chinese right now even though I have enough going on<\/strong>: Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern<\/a> by Jing Tsu. The level of effort it took to standardize Chinese! How do you make a dictionary without an alphabet? How do you make a typewriter? It’s cool as hell.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notable autism book that low-key blew my mind<\/strong>: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity<\/a> by Devon Price.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notably spicy fantasy romance<\/strong>: A Power Unbound<\/a> by Freya Marske.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notable Regency-era fantasy<\/strong>: Half a Soul<\/a> by Olivia Atwater. I thought this whole series was fun to read and very sweet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notable queer memoir<\/strong>: The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag<\/a> by Sasha Velour. I love Sasha Velour’s view on art and drag and queer history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Notable story that feels like it’s gonna stay with me<\/strong>: Cantoras<\/a> by Carolina de Robertis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Battle of the Linguist Mages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"cover](\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230215_211452795-scaled-e1677387029773-700x735.jpg\")
<\/a>Babel: An Arcane History<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"book:](\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230313_185553762-scaled-e1679845264493-700x878.jpg\")
<\/a>Children of Ash and Elm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230429_163134500_HDR-700x933.jpg\")
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<\/a>Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"cover](\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_20231201_175620352-scaled-e1702230422174-700x816.jpg\")
<\/a>A Power Unbound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"paperback](\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230503_0847564702-scaled-e1684085735318-700x875.jpg\")
<\/a>Half a Soul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"hardback](\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_20230607_121445596-scaled-e1686459790767-700x846.jpg\")
<\/a>The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"book](\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_20231223_081555345-scaled-e1703553626154-700x959.jpg\")
<\/a>Cantoras: A Novel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n If you want to see what I read in previous years, you can click the books of the year tag<\/a> to see all my past annual book posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you would like to be book friends all year, you can join me on StoryGraph<\/a>! My username is linzomatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now: the list of books I read in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Date Finished<\/strong><\/td> Title<\/strong><\/td> Author<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> 1\/1<\/td> Armistice<\/td> Lara Elena Donnelly<\/td><\/tr> 1\/3<\/td> Amnesty<\/td> Lara Elena Donnelly<\/td><\/tr> 1\/7<\/td> High Times in the Low Parliament<\/td> Kelly Robins<\/td><\/tr> 1\/14<\/td> Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth<\/td> John Darnell, Collen Darnell<\/td><\/tr> 1\/15<\/td> Miss Iceland<\/td> Au\u00f0ur Ava \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir<\/td><\/tr> 1\/22<\/td> The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket<\/td> Benjamin Lorr<\/td><\/tr> 1\/22<\/td> Battle of the Linguist Mages<\/td> Scotto Moore<\/td><\/tr> 1\/26<\/td> Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism<\/td> Amanda Montell<\/td><\/tr> 1\/29<\/td> Black Water Sister<\/td> Zen Cho<\/td><\/tr> 2\/2<\/td> Hotel Silence<\/td> Au\u00f0ur Ava \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir<\/td><\/tr> 2\/4<\/td> Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever<\/td> Nomi Prins<\/td><\/tr> 2\/13<\/td> Plain Bad Heroines<\/td> Emily M. Danforth<\/td><\/tr> 2\/21<\/td> Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution<\/td> R. F. Kuang<\/td><\/tr> 2\/25<\/td> \u201cYou Just Need to Lose Weight\u201d: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People<\/td> Aubrey Gordon<\/td><\/tr> 2\/28<\/td> Remote Control<\/td> Nnedi Okorafor<\/td><\/tr> 3\/10<\/td> The Citadel of Weeping Pearls<\/td> Aliette de Bodard<\/td><\/tr> 3\/13<\/td> Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings<\/td> Neil Price<\/td><\/tr> 3\/19<\/td> The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life<\/td> Johan Ekl\u00f6f<\/td><\/tr> 3\/19<\/td> Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia<\/td> David Graeber<\/td><\/tr> 3\/27<\/td> The Wolf in the Whale<\/td> Jordanna Max Brodsky<\/td><\/tr> 3\/30<\/td> Outlawed<\/td> Anna North<\/td><\/tr> 4\/8<\/td> The Sellout<\/td> Paul Beatty<\/td><\/tr> 4\/12<\/td> The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies<\/td> Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington<\/td><\/tr> 4\/13<\/td> Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto<\/td> Tricia Hersey<\/td><\/tr> 4\/16<\/td> The Age of Witches<\/td> Louisa Morgan<\/td><\/tr> 4\/20<\/td> A Court of Thorns and Roses<\/td> Sarah J. Maas<\/td><\/tr> 4\/28<\/td> The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language<\/td> Mark Forsyth<\/td><\/tr> 4\/30<\/td> Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern<\/td> Jing Tsu<\/td><\/tr> 5\/1<\/td> Caperucita se come al Lobo<\/td> Pilar Quintana<\/td><\/tr> 5\/2<\/td> Half A Soul<\/td> Olivia Atwater<\/td><\/tr> 5\/5<\/td> Ten Thousand Stitches<\/td> Olivia Atwater<\/td><\/tr> 5\/13<\/td> Longshadow<\/td> Olivia Atwater<\/td><\/tr> 5\/14<\/td> Tema Libre<\/td> Alejandro Zambra<\/td><\/tr> 5\/18<\/td> A Court of Mist and Fury<\/td> Sarah J. Maas<\/td><\/tr> 5\/25<\/td> A Court of Wings and Ruin<\/td> Sarah J. Maas<\/td><\/tr> 6\/3<\/td> Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity<\/td> Devon Price<\/td><\/tr> 6\/5<\/td> The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill<\/td> Rowenna Miller<\/td><\/tr> 6\/7<\/td> The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag<\/td> Sasha Velour<\/td><\/tr> 6\/10<\/td> Some Desparate Glory<\/td> Emily Tesh<\/td><\/tr> 6\/22<\/td> The Librarian<\/td> Mikhail Elizarov<\/td><\/tr> 6\/23<\/td> A Court of Frost and Starlight<\/td> Sarah J. Maas<\/td><\/tr> 6\/29<\/td> A Court of Silver Flames<\/td> Sarah J. Maas<\/td><\/tr> 7\/5<\/td> The Restoration Program<\/td> Mary Dublin, Anne Kendsley<\/td><\/tr> 7\/11<\/td> The Book of Goose<\/td> Yiyun Li<\/td><\/tr> 7\/12<\/td> An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace<\/td> Tamar Adler<\/td><\/tr> 7\/17<\/td> Strong Female Character<\/td> Fern Brady<\/td><\/tr> 7\/19<\/td> Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea<\/td> Rita Chang-Eppig<\/td><\/tr> 7\/21<\/td> Ink Blood Sister Scribe<\/td> Emma T\u00f6rzs<\/td><\/tr> 7\/25<\/td> Camp Damascus<\/td> Chuck Tingle<\/td><\/tr> 8\/1<\/td> Un vaso de agua bajo mi cama: Inmigraci\u00f3n, feminismo y bisexualidad<\/td> Daisy Hern\u00e1ndez<\/td><\/tr> 8\/10<\/td> The Archive Undying<\/td> Emma Mieko Camden<\/td><\/tr> 8\/12<\/td> Translation State<\/td> Ann Leckie<\/td><\/tr> 8\/17<\/td> Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives<\/td> Amelia Possanza<\/td><\/tr> 8\/20<\/td> Daughter of the Moon Goddess<\/td> Sue Lynn Tan<\/td><\/tr> 8\/23<\/td> Sappho Is burning<\/td> Page DuBois<\/td><\/tr> 8\/24<\/td> Vampires of El Norte<\/td> Isabel Ca\u00f1as<\/td><\/tr> 8\/27<\/td> Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics<\/td> Ol\u00faf\u1eb9\u0301mi O. 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- Notable linguistics-themed fantasy<\/strong>: Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution<\/a> by R. F. Kuang. This is the linguistics-themed fiction I want! Stick it to the fucking man!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Library use<\/strong>: 30 books from the library and 52 of my own books. Shout out to the library for saving me money! Thank you, local tax payers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n