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My 2023 In Books

Hello all! I haven’t kept up with this blog in a while, and sadly 2023 was truly not my year (Insert Friends themed song) but like the theme song of FRIENDS, books were definitely there for me last year, and I did have a great book-ish year.

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My goal was to read 3 books of 400 pages or more, and I read 6. 


I ended up reading 26 books. My top 5 books of 2023 were: 


5 -  Educated by Tara Westover.

4 - The Wedding Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan.

3 - Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

2 - The Light Pirate by Lilly Brooks- Dalton.

1 - The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer.


Some of the books I read were really not planned. Honestly I am a fiction lover gal and reading 3 memoirs was new for me, but all 3 memoirs were absolutely fantastic.
 My goal this year is to read 35 books. The biggest challenge is to read all of my TBR books seating and collecting dust. I will also be writing more reviews and getting back to my old routines. Sometimes we have to accept that not every year is our year, and we have to rise from those not so good moments, accept, and move on with those little things that truly makes us happy. 


Happy New Year to all! And do tell me, what were some of your favorite 2023 reads? 

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Cheers and Ciao to a blessed and bookish 2024!


Drea. 


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