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2023
My Year in Books
35,624
pages read
Adam Murphy
114
books read
Adam Murphy
Foster by Claire Keegan
Shortest Book
90
pages
Anatomy of Genres by John Truby
Longest Book
720
pages
Average book length in 2023
312
pages
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Most Shelved
5,811,502
people also shelved
The Wrath of the Blob by Dashe Roberts
Least Shelved
10
people also shelved
Adam’s average rating for 2023
3.8
3.8
Winter's Keep by Tamsin Mori
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.76 average
Action by Robert McKee

Adam’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game by Robert McKee & Bassem El-Wakil is an excellent introduction to a film genre in which the protagonist(s) are thrust into a series of events that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, rescues and frantic chases. The Action genre is highly prevalent in movies and video games and is characterised by a lot of adrenaline and blowing things up! ALL THE GREAT STUFF!

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ADAM’S 2023 BOOKS
Action by Robert McKee
it was amazing
Anatomy of Genres by John Truby
What is Cinema? by André Bazin
Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson
The Passenger & Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson
What is Cinema? by André Bazin
The Asparagus Bunch by Jessica Scott-Whyte
Foster by Claire Keegan
The Monsters of Rookhaven by Pádraig Kenny
Game Over Girl by Naomi Gibson
What the World Doesn't See by Mel Darbon
it was amazing
Untypical by Pete Wharmby
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
it was amazing
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Where the River Takes Us by Lesley Parr
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher
The Shadows of Rookhaven by Pádraig Kenny
Shy by Max Porter
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
Xanthe & the Ruby Crown by Jasbinder Bilan
really liked it
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
Pageboy by Elliot Page
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
Winter's Keep by Tamsin Mori
Into the Dark Forest by Liz Flanagan
Like a Curse by Elle McNicoll
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Wildsmith by Liz Flanagan
Hellboy in Hell by Mike Mignola
really liked it
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1 by Frank Miller
Hellboy by Mike Mignola
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 3 by Frank Miller
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 2 by Frank Miller
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 4 by Frank Miller
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 5 by Frank Miller
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 6 by Frank Miller
Locke & Key by Joe Hill
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 7 by Frank Miller
it was amazing
Locke & Key by Joe Hill
Locke & Key by Joe Hill
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley
really liked it
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Who Hunts the Whale by Laura Kate Dale
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
really liked it
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Great Escape - Folio Society Edition by Paul Brickhill
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Murder on the Orient Express and Other Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Agatha Christie
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair by Hannah Foley
Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Drowning by T.J. Newman
really liked it
End Credits by Patty Lin
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Reach for the Sky - Folio Society Edition by Paul Brickhill
The Devil's Playground by Craig Russell
The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy
The Housetrap by Emma Read
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
really liked it
Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
Queen Bee by Ciara Geraghty
Spread the Joy by Gaby Roslin
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Home by Cailean Steed
Is it Actually Love for Lexie Byrne by Caroline Grace-Cassidy
Stories of Autistic Joy by Laura Kate Dale
Geneva by Richard Armitage
Diary of Murders by Sarah Cook
really liked it
The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
Walk Yourself Happy by Julia Bradbury
The Wrath of the Blob by Dashe Roberts
Nowhere Island by Tania Unsworth
Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan
Haunted Reels by David Lawson Jr.
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Bridge by Lauren Beukes
The Brexit Tapes by John Bull

Adam’s last review of the year

really liked it


"My Name is Bozymandias, King of Kings; I Got Brexit Done"

The Brexit Tapes by John Bull is the political satire everyone needs to read. It feels like something Armando Iannucci could come up with…only with large amounts of pop-cultural references to help fill in the boring political gaps.

Brextorians had long suspected that at the time of the Brexit negotiations, a series of audio recordings were made by and of government officials. In the year 3 ...more
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