2014 Books

I read far fewer books than usual this year--only 17. Not sure what happened, but I'm okay with it (I have a sneaking suspicion I forgot one or two as well).

• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
• Edenbrooke - Julianne Donaldson
• We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
• Blackmoore - Julianne Donaldson
• Anthem - Ayn Rand
• The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
• Bear in the Back Seat - Kim DeLozier
• The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
• Austenland - Shannon Hale
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• Small as an Elephant - Jennifer Jacobson
• The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
• Cleaning House - Kay Wyma

Three of these were Emma's summer reading books, a few were others my kids were reading, several were book club selections, and a couple I picked up after seeing my cousins like them on goodreads. Three books were repeats, which is unusual (two I knew it, the other I completely forgot I'd already read till I was a third of the way into it). As usual there were winners, losers, and meh-ers.

Biggest letdown: Cleaning House (looked so good, ended up so lame)

Winner: A Tale of Two Cities (only the second Dickens book I've read, so subtlety funny at the beginning, so chilling once it got going, such a masterfully woven plot, I loved it. I need to pick up more of his collection, it takes a little more work to read him than others, but the payoff is worth it)