yuletide reveals and 2014 reading

[silverflight8]

This year I wrote one fic for Queen's Thief (Megan Whalen Turner), Rooftop Sneaking for morganstern, 1,500 words, about Eugenides teaching Eddis how to sneak around her palace.

I already recced my fic but I want to rec it again: Kushiel's Keys, by vibishan, 8,000 words, a what-if AU if Morwen succeeded in getting a child from Imriel and what

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[silverflight8]

Yeah, I don't watch any TV! :P A good chunk were re-reads too, so I could read a lot faster.

Any standout books you liked this year?

Here's the list. It's kinda ugly because I didn't want to mess too much with formatting but it should hopefully be readable. This list is slightly embarrassing >.> I read all the Shopaholic books except the newest one, the Hollywood one. I have it in epub, I just can't...quite make myself read it yet. IDK, I guess I'm afraid it might ruin my happy bubble about the books.
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Weight of Stone , Laura Anne Gilman
The Shattered Vine , Laura Anne Gilman
The Stranger I Married , Sylvia Day
Shades of Grey , Jasper Fforde
The Lays of Marie de France , Marie de France
Firethorn , Sarah Micklem
Arthurian Romances , Chrétien de Troyes
The Queen of Attolia , Megan Whalen Turner
The King of Attolia , Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief , Megan Whalen Turner
The Leopard Prince , Elizabeth Hoyt
The Serpent Prince , Elizabeth Hoyt
Hawksong , Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Skybreaker , Kenneth Oppel
Airborn , Kenneth Oppel
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood , Howard Pyle
Northanger Abbey , Jane Austen
The Eagle of the Ninth , Rosemary Sutcliff
The Sky is Falling , Kit Pearson
Looking at the Moon , Kit Pearson
The Final Empire , Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension , Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages , Brandon Sanderson
To Beguile a Beast , Elizabeth Hoyt
The Lights Go On Again , Kit Pearson
The Secrets of the Jedi , Jude Watson
Dragon Rider , Cornelia Funke
Snakecharm , Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Hawk of May , Gillian Bradshaw
The Crystal Cave , Mary Stewart
Take Two , Evangeline Anderson
Among Others , Jo Walton
Scandalous Desires , Elizabeth Hoyt
Once Upon a Winter's Eve , Tessa Dare
One Dance with a Duke , Tessa Dare
Any Duchess Will Do , Tessa Dare
Wildfire , Sarah Micklem
The Vogue Factor , Kirstie Clements
Sense and Sensibility , Jane Austen
Iron Man: Extremis , Marie Javins
The Elusive Wife , Callie Hutton
A Dangerous Beauty , Sophia Nash
The Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers ,
The Wicked Wallflower , Maya Rodale
The Disposessed , Ursula K LeGuin
Confessions of a Shopaholic , Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan , Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Ties the Knot , Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic and Sister , Sophie Kinsella
A Confusion of Princes , Garth Nix
Mini Shopaholic , Sophie Kinsella
A Lady's Secret , Jo Beverly
Three Weeks with Lady X , Eloisa James
The Rogue Pirate's Bride , Shana Galen
When You Give A Duke A Diamond , Shana Galen
True Spies , Shana Galen
Sapphires Are An Earl's Best Friend , Shana Galen
Blindsight , Peter Watts
Exploring Typography , Tova Rabinowitz
Silverwing , Kenneth Oppel
Anne of Green Gables , L M Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea , L M Montgomery
Anne of the Island , L M Montgomery
Malory Towers , Enid Blyton
Island of Ghosts , Gillian Bradshaw
From Russia With Love , Ian Fleming
Swordspoint , Ellen Kushner
Howl's Moving Castle , Diane Wynne Jones
Dirty Magic , Jaye Wells
Cursed Moon , Jaye Wells
Emilie & The Hollow World , Martha Wells

[sherrilina]

Ah you're missing out--so many great shows on TV these days! ;)

And okay then, lol, if you count RE-reads then yeah, I've read more than just 17 books! :p I just count new books finished...I usually don't reread covet to cover anyway. (Like with Kushiel's Justice who the hell wants to reread the never ending journey? ;)).

Standouts would be Gone Girl, and also finishing at last the Otherworld Series (originally called Women of the Otherworld) by Kelley Armstrong, which I've been reading for 10 years. I would really recommend if if you haven't read them and like a good urban fantasy series--great world building, interesting plots, and a focus on female characters. Before finishing the series I did a lot of rereading of the old books.

Oh the Shopaholic books, lol...the last one I finished was the sister one, and then I got halfway through the baby one, to be finished at some point. I fear they are beginning to get a bit tiresome though--idk how Luke can stand her and her spending habits, the fact that she can never seem to reform. I can't relate at all.

[silverflight8]

:) The last time I really watched and kept up with TV was when I was a kid - Treehouse was my favourite :P For some reason I just kind of stopped during school. The TV gathered dust in the basement and totally disused by the entire family, haha. I like reading your TV recaps though!

I don't count brief rereads, but I often re-read cover-to-cover (some of them were childhood books so I was curious to see if my memories were correct or if they held up. Mostly, they did.) I'm slowly rereading Blue Succubus at the moment actually.

Oh, I think I read one Kelley Armstrong and kinda bounced off them, but I'll look into Otherworld.

RE: Shopaholic. I agree, honestly. I like Becky but I think the structure of the books really holds Kinsella back; she can't really develop Becky because then the books wouldn't be about a shopaholic anymore...it's a problem.