Annual Reading Review: 2023 | The Good, The Bad, and MCAT Studying in Post-Grad

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Good morning to 2024! Although 2024 is halfway done, I still have yet to re-wire my brain to write nor type out the correct year; yet, that doesn't mean we have to stop the celebrations!

This is my review of 2023 and all the posts written this year! Share with me your favorite posts from your blogs, Instagrams, Twitters, Goodreads, TikToks, etc.!

2023's Posts:

12 Questions with Lil' Bro Reviewing The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan | Another Success or a Boring Quest?


Recent Mainstream Popular Books and Authors I Have Not (YET) Read But Are On My TBR | Featuring My Cold Soul and So Many GIFs to Shame Me But I'll Shake It Off


Stacking the Shelves | So You Want to Be a Doctor...


Book Review: SawKill Girls by Claire Legrand | Following Psychic Moths and Throwing Delicious Casseroles at Paranormal Monsters for Feminism


Book Review: Alone by Cyn Balog | Can You Ever Be Truly Alone When You Have Cake? Ft. Murder Mysteries

Book Review: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan || Three Perspectives, Two-Faced Gods, and One Bad Enemy

Book Review: What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera | When a Meet-Cute at the Post Office is Misdelivered

2023's Books:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling - both ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell - ⭐⭐⭐

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Clockwork Angel Trilogy by Cassandra Clare - each was ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Percy Jackson and the Olympian series by Rick Riordan - each was ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan - ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera - ⭐.5

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand - ⭐⭐⭐.5

Autonomous by Andy Marino - DNF/0

The Revolution of Jack Frost by K. M. Robinson - DNF/0

Alone by Cyn Balog - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Figure 1. Fiction vs. Non-fiction Books Read 
Figure 2. Star-ratings of Books Read in 2023

Figure 3. Genres of Read Books

In conclusion, the books I read were mostly a success - although many of them were guaranteed 5-star reads as 12 of these were also re-re-reads.

What Can Be Expected for 2024?

More posts, more books, more Coco-Puffs (in nutritionally balanced cow's milk)!

See you soon,

newbookcats

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