rolanni | Books read in 2014

Wow. The last time I updated this list was July 13. I'm adding Tryst to the list since I did read it, but I've read it so many times that it was more like reciting it. I just needed something that I could pick up and read words-in-a-row that weren't mine/ours, and that wouldn't distract me from the work-in-progress.

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Many say "Read aloud with Steve". I gave some of your books to my friends, Martha Bartter and Andy Hilgartner, as they were going on a trip. They read them aloud to each other, and fell in love with your work. I ended up buying everything you had available and shipping it to them in boxes stuffed with plastic bags to protect the books.

So on arrival? "Thank you for the plastic bags. We had almost run out of cat box liners." Sigh.

Absent friends.

I am very fond of her Dawn's Early Light series following a colonial Williamsburg family and its in-laws for almost 200 years. Sadly, so few people checked them out at our library that they "de-acquisitioned" (horrid word) them.

Books read in 2014

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Elswyth Thane