What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
71
pages
Longest Book
576
pages
Average book length in
2024
357
pages
Most Shelved
1,541,982
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
27
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also shelved
Pat’s
average rating for
2024
3.6
3.6
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.46
average
Pat’s first review of the year
it was amazing
Actually, 4.5 stars.
Barbara Kingsolver has done her usual splendid job, using the basic plot of Dickens's David Copperfield to portray the personal and social devastation of the Oxycontin abuse epidemic in rural Virginia. Demon Fields's rich, authentic first-person narration carries the reader through a tale of material and emotional poverty, failed social safety nets, self-defeating choices, and personal resilience.
This is not a fun book. Follo ...more
Barbara Kingsolver has done her usual splendid job, using the basic plot of Dickens's David Copperfield to portray the personal and social devastation of the Oxycontin abuse epidemic in rural Virginia. Demon Fields's rich, authentic first-person narration carries the reader through a tale of material and emotional poverty, failed social safety nets, self-defeating choices, and personal resilience.
This is not a fun book. Follo ...more
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it was amazing
Pat’s last review of the year
it was amazing
Amor Towles sure knows how to put together a story. Briefly, The Lincoln Highway follows 18-year-old Emmett Watson, who's just been discharged from a juvenile detention facility, and his little brother Billy as they set out to drive to California in search of the mother who abandoned them years before. Add two of Emmett's fellow inmates who've gone AWOL literally to find their fortune, and things quickly ramp up into a rollicking road trip. The p
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