What was your least favorite book of 2022?

Surprisingly, it was the Booker prize nominee Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

Happy New Year !!! I finished "The Maltese Falcon"..... Where to start..... I LOVED it. I think the 2 things I loved most were that I felt like I was in a 20's detective movie, the smoky rooms, Spade's way of talking to all the women..... yes icky, but so much fun... It was one of my favorite writing styles, where you don't know who knows' what until it comes out. I dare say I'd put it in my top reads of 2022. I'm so glad I read it, I don't think I'd ever have picked it up on my own if not for your reviews about it. So, Thank You !!!!!

I must say it takes courage to be honest and you expressed it well in this reading wrap-up. A long time ago you recommended The Hunchback of Notre Dame and I just finished it. Thank you, it was a great story, very moving, causing me empathy toward its main characters, and surprised by it beautiful, sad conclusion. Happy 2023, Valerie.

oh wow i havent seen anyone not love any emily henry book this is interesting

I don't like any of your least favourite books other than a violent dnf of People We Meet on Vacation 10 minutes in last year and I do have a great love for Anna Karenina ehich I am not sure if you dislike or just don't like the self insert (which I was going to say, but I think I love female autofiction and am revolted by male self inserts). Loved this video and how you talked about things so much!!

OH I disliked The Big Sleep as well. I had the urge to read it only because my sister got me an adorable green Penguin Library mug with the book title 😅Like you I didn't enjoy Philip Marlowe's character and felt the story drag because of him. It also didn't help that I was in a Hercule Poirot kick at the time, so I was more so craving a humorous, light-hearted detective rather than the brooding Philip Marlowe...

I thought People You Meet on Vacation was juvenile. It’s ridiculous. The “end” scene was stupid and the “reveal” was predictable.

There are people in my life who think I'm a Hemingway fan because I love classics. Um no. No no no. Nope. Ugh. Surprisingly, despite my Jude rant, that wasn't my least favourite book of the year. 😂 That title belongs to D.H. Lawrence's The Man Who Died. I had to read it for uni, and aside from the blatant and intentional disrespect to Christianity, the whole thing was basically a worshipful love letter to his p*nis. Like most of his work, honestly. I cannot stand Lawrence. I full-body shuddered through the entire thing and threw it in the garbage as soon as my course was over.