What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
176
pages
Longest Book
881
pages
Average book length in
2024
388
pages
Most Shelved
770,905
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
6,226
people
also shelved
Tim’s
average rating for
2024
3.3
3.3
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.47
average
Tim’s first review of the year
it was amazing
Sometimes, novels that are made up of many short stories don't work. The connections never hold. The lines are tenuous. With North Woods though, the through line is the woods, a beautiful valley in Massachusetts that so many called home. Also, by moving through the generations and different owners, the stories of the past effect the present. It's not just a story that ends, but a story that informs the next one. While I reflected on the final cha
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Tim’s last review of the year
did not like it
Holy shit, this is a stupid book. And not even stupid-funny. It’s stupid-tiresome. Like if you need to follow your book title with “a comedy,� then maybe it’s not funny. Maybe if it were funny, people would laugh when they read it and be amused.
I loved Saul and Patsy. Loved Charles Baxter’s essays on writing, but this book was terrible. To start, it’s boring. The narrator is annoying. It tries to be funny without being funny. And even though it’s ...more
I loved Saul and Patsy. Loved Charles Baxter’s essays on writing, but this book was terrible. To start, it’s boring. The narrator is annoying. It tries to be funny without being funny. And even though it’s ...more
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