June 2023-January 2024 Big Book Preview (Phil's Version) (Unlocked and Updated)

Now unlocking for general consumption.

I did one of these for the first six months of 2023 back in January; you can see the three installments here, here, and here. This time around, I am abandoning a strictly chronological style for something more thematic. I am also not doing writeups for every single book, because there’s only so many ways you can sa…