Jan. 2nd, 2015

jacey: (blue eyes)
So this 2014's reading suffered greatly from all the writing that I needed to do. i find it almost impossible to read while I'm writing a first draft - unless it's non-fiction. Stories providre a distraction and might, subconsciously also provide influence. In oprevioius years I've read and blogged between fifty and sixty books. This year I didn't even manage twenty, though as an excuse I offer the notion that the two George R R Martins and the Jilly Cooper probably add up to six or seven books between them.

Favourites of 2014 were the Scott Lynch Gentlemen Bastards books, though very honourable mentions go to Pratchett for Dodger, Patricia Briggs for Night Broken, the eighth Mercy Thompson book, and Tom Pollock for The City's Son. I don't buy many books on writing techniques, but the three Donald Maass books are excellent and being non-fiction didn't clash with the writing I was doing in parallel with reading.

Books read and blogged (in reverse order):

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