Books read in 2014

44.  Grave Mercy, Robin LeFevers (e)
43.  Heavenly Pleasures, Kerry Greenwood (e)
42.  Branded by Fire, Nalini Singh (read aloud w/Steve)
41. Paragon Walk, Anne Perry
40.  Spellcast, Barbara Ashford
39.  A Night in the Lonesome October, Roger Zelazny, (re-re-re-&c-read aloud w/Steve)
38. The Third Circle, Amanda Quick
37.  Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, Phil and Kaja Foglio
36.  Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
35.   Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman (as told to Ralph Leighton)
34.   A Brother's Price, Wen Spencer (e)
33.   Spiral Path, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel (e)
32.   Earthly Delights, Kerry Greenwood (e)
31.   Night Broken, Patricia Briggs (e)
30.  Just My Type, Simon Garfield
29.  Bones of Faerie, Janni Lee Simner
28.  Dancer of the Sixth, Michelle Shirey Crean
27.  Tryst, Elswyth Thane (re-re-re-re-re-&c-read)
26.  The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
25.  The King of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
24.  The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
23.  The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
22.  Cuckoo's Egg, C.J. Cherryh (re-re-re-&c-read)
21.  The Windflower, Laura London (Tom and Sharon Curtis) (re-read)
20.  Sparrow Hill Road, Seanan McGuire (e)
19.  Demon's Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan
18.  Refining Felicity, Marion Chesney
17.  Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury (re-read aloud w/Steve)
16. The Vanished Priestess, Meredith Blevins
15.  Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny (re-read aloud w/Steve)
14.  Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein
13.  Ghost Point, James A. Hetley, manuscript (read aloud w/Steve)
12.  Peacemaker, C.J. Cherryh (read aloud w/Steve)
11.  The Red Hot Empress, Meredith Blevins
10.  Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
9.  Black Widow: The Name of the Rose, Marjorie Liu, Daniel Acuna
8.  Agent of Change, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (e)
7.  The Emperor's Agent, Jo Graham (e)
6.  Eternity and a Day, Aline Hunter (e)
5.  Kindred Rites, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel (e)
4.  Billy the Kid, the Endless Ride, Michael Wallis
3.  The Steerswoman, Rosemary Kirstein (e)
2.  Uncovered, Jordan Matter
1.  Dancers Among Us, Jordan Matter

The New England Carousel Museum

So, Steve and I decided to drive to our Principal Speaker gig at PhilCon in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, because. . .new car, mostly, and also?  If we drove, rather than take the train, and left a day early, we could stop in Bristol, Connecticut and take a couple hours to tour the New England Carousel Museum, which I've been trying to figure out how to accomplish for years, by which I mean, "before Carousel Tides was published."

Bold scheme formed, we deliberately drove into Connecticut, through Hartford, which I never willingly do, and so to Bristol, where we found the museum right where we were promised it would be, at 95 Riverside Avenue (Rt 72).

We'd budgeted a couple hours for the tour.  Honestly, we should have budgeted a whole day.  Still we had a blast, and our tour guide, Cindy Mulcahy, added much to the experience, with her enthusiasm and obvious love of all things carousel.

We rushed madly about, trying to see All The Things, and took, like, a zillion pictures (with permission).  Instead of overburdening this space with them, I collected the pictures off of my camera into a Pinterest album, right over here.

The moral of the story is:  If you are or find yourself on the East Coast of the United States, and you have even a small interest in carousels/carousel animals/carousel art/the science of restoration,  you will find it worth your while to go to the New England Carousel Museum.

Text of Lee and Miller's PhilCon GoH Speech

For those who were not able to attend our speech at PhilCon, and for those who did attend, but who were not able to hear all of it, the text -- with stage directions! -- has been posted here, for your reading pleasure.