Book Lists : Your Best and Worst reads of 2023

[madrano]

Alias Reader wrote: "I am guessing it suffered from comparison to her other book. Maybe my expectation were too high...."

This makes sense to me, charmed as i was by Bernadette. :-)

[Shomeret]

I read 37 books in 2023 which is low for me.

The best books of that bunch were:

The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate by Arundati Roy

This book caused me to totally re-evaluate Gandhi. I will never view him as a saint again. See my review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error by Danielle Ofri

Doctors are often put a pedestal, but we should know that they are human beings who are, of course, capable of error. Yet medical errors can have terrible consequences. This was an honest and hard hitting book by a physician. See my review at
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women by

War is horrifying for anyone who experiences it, but particularly for rape victims. That is the focus of this book. I thought it was significant and had tremendous impact. See my review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocomb

This was the best novel I read this year. It dealt with the relationship between a musician and his valuable violin, and the theft of that violin. I love fiction that deals with music and I empathized with the protagonist. For my review see https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I hope that I read books in 2024 that are as well written and powerful as these were.

[Lindsey]

Shomeret wrote: "I read 37 books in 2023 which is low for me.

The best books of that bunch were:

The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate by Arundati Roy

This book caused me to tot..."

Wow - all 4 of those look incredible.

I have had The Violin Conspiracy on my TBR, but added the rest - thanks for posting these!

[madrano]

Shomeret wrote: "I read 37 books in 2023 which is low for me.

The best books of that bunch were:

The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate by Arundati Roy

This book caused me to tot..."

I read your review of the Roy book on your review blog, http://shomeretmasked.blogspot.com/ . It stayed with me, thanks to your change of mind toward Gandhi. I'm glad Roy wrote the book for the public.

FROM you second review, "Death certificates only allow for a single cause of death. The colleague thought that death certificates should permit the listing of a preventable complication that contributed to the death. This would allow medical errors that hastened death to be included."

I couldn't agree more. It is a disservice to family members and really serves few. The fact that so many are listed with the primary issue, such as heart conditions, the very-widespread diabetes or lung cancer blurs the lines for family & society at large, imo.

Good review, which i've added to my TBR. As i did for your sole novel, the Solcomb. I'm grateful to you for sharing your thoughts on these books here, Shomeret.

[Alias Reader]

Thank you for sharing your best of with us, Shomeret !

I've had The Violin Conspiracy on my radar for a while now. I'll put it on my TBR list.

The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate sounds interesting.
I purchased in 2003 the paperback issue but didn't read his autobiography.
Gandhi: An Autobiography
I just checked and Amazon has the Kindle for 45 cents ! So I'm going to get the Kindle version. (note amazon at some point told the publisher their were some spelling mistakes in the eBook. That doesn't bother me. I prefer to read on the Kindle. And what can you buy for less than 50 Cents these days.

I will probably try to read this one first then the Roy book.

Thank you !