Loops, Arrays and Objects. Reading List Challenge

JavaScript
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Hi, I am new to javascript and I am really struggling with this challenge I am doing as part of a beginners course I am attempting. Was wondering if anyone could give me some help and pointers on where I am going wrong.
I am trying to create a loop that goes through the array I have created and produce a statement declaring whether I have or have not read a certain book. I have managed to get the final Array to pull through but the console is not logging any of my other variations and I don’t know why. Thank you for reading this and your help is greatly appreciated.

Here is my code so far;

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title> Books to read</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<script>

			var books = [
			{title: 'Game of Thrones', author: 'George R.R. Martin', alreadyRead: "Yes"},
			{title: 'Alice in Wonderland', author: 'C.S. Lewis', alreadyRead:"Yes"},
			{title: 'The Nightlords Omnibus', author: 'Aaron Dembski-Bowden', alreadyRead: "No"},
			{title: 'Harry Potter', author: 'J.K Rowling', alreadyRead: "No"}
			]
			for (var i = 0; i < books.length; i++) {
			  var book= books[i];
			} if (book.alreadyRead == "Yes"){
				console.log ("You have already read "+book.title+" by "+book.author);
			} else if(book.alreadyRead == "No") {
				console.log("You have not read "+book.title+" by "+book.author); 
			}


		</script>

	</body>
</html>
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for (var i = 0; i < books.length; i++) {
  var book= books[i];
} if (book.alreadyRead == "Yes"){
  console.log ("You have already read "+book.title+" by "+book.author);
} else if(book.alreadyRead == "No") {
  console.log("You have not read "+book.title+" by "+book.author); 
}

This here… Can we agree that the if/else block is outside of the for loop? Should it be?

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You are absolutely right, syntax has been the hardest thing for me with Javascript. Thank you. That sorted it, as I am now actually putting all the array through the function.

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