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2023
My Year in Books
12,346
pages read
Lisa Jacobson
45
books read
Lisa Jacobson
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Shortest Book
106
pages
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Longest Book
630
pages
Average book length in 2023
274
pages
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Most Shelved
1,583,938
people also shelved
Gardens for the Soul by Sara Bird
Least Shelved
71
people also shelved
Lisa’s average rating for 2023
3.7
3.7
Life Can Be Good Again by Appelo
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.76 average
Gardens for the Soul by Sara Bird

Lisa’s first review of the year

it was ok
I found this book neither particularly helpful or inspiring.
LISA’S 2023 BOOKS
Gardens for the Soul by Sara Bird
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
it was amazing
Holy Hygge by Jamie Erickson
Irena's Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
Establishing Home by Jean Stoffer
Living Life Backward by David Gibson
Make Life Beautiful by Syd McGee
Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
Worthy by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
Engaging Your Teen's World by David Eaton
really liked it
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus Revolution by Greg Laurie
Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin
Johnny Cash by Greg Laurie
Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspé
Every Woman a Theologian by Phylicia D. Masonheimer
But Then She Remembered by Katie Westenberg
Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
Letters From the Mountain by Ben Palpant
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
really liked it
Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher
City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
really liked it
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Life Can Be Good Again by Appelo
Elisabeth Elliot by Lucy S.R. Austen
A Leopard Tamed by Eleanor Vandevort
The God of the Garden by Andrew Peterson
Unfolding Destinies by Olive Fleming Liefeld
Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
Like a River by Granger Smith
No Graven Image by Elisabeth Elliot
Rembrandt Is in the Wind by Russ Ramsey
Made for the Journey by Elisabeth Elliot
Fidelity by Wendell Berry
The Waiting by Cathy LaGrow
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
it was amazing
Being Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn
The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Lisa’s last review of the year

really liked it
I read the entire book in two days (and if I didn't have to make meals for my family, would've read it in one day :). Such a surprising, interesting, moving, thoughtful story.

I don't want to give anything away, but I do want to add that I did NOT find it sad or depressing as I feared when I first picked it up. Well-written and incredibly insightful. ...more
2023 Reading Challenge
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Lisa Jacobson read 45 out of 50 books.
 
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