top 25 in books in 2023 allegedly.

Hmmm, a lot of my friends would tell you I read too much, following fictional character's lives instead of living mine. I think I used to be a bit like that when I was young. Then I lived more. One of my German friends once had a bit of an explosion after showing me around his town and listening to my chatter for 4 days. He's had enough. "I can't bear listening toe you finding comparison of everything to something you read about. It makes e feel inadequate." He is a nice, clever and kind man, and usually very tolerant.
I told him he had a point and apologised. I also told him one of my favourite definitions of an intellectual. " He/she reads about things other people do naturally.
And what is worst is Goodreads don't have the entire picture. I don't put all books I read on. When I was a child, the sentence Nečti si pořád " Don't read all the time" was something I hard almost every day. Maybe all those people are right.