Book Logs 2014

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):

• Book Log 19/2014 - Carrie Vaughan: Kitty and the Silver Bullet - Kitty Norville #4


• Book Log 18/2014 - Sherwood Smith: Rondo Allegro


• Book Log 17/2014 - Karen Traviss: View of a Remote Country


• Book Log 16/2014 - Steven Erikson: Willful Child


• Book Log 15/2014 - Terry Pratchett: Dodger


• Book Log 14/2014 - George RR Martin: A Dance With Dragons - A Song of Ice and Fire #5


• Book Log 13/2014 - Joanne Harris: Dr Who: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Time Traveller


• Book Log 12/2014 - Jilly Cooper: Jump


• Book Log 11/2014 - Donald Maass: Writing the Breakout Novel


• Book Log 10/2014 - Donald Maass: Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook


• Book Log 9/2014 - George R. R. Martin: A Feast for Crows - A Song of Ice and Fire # 4


• Book Log 8/2014 - Scott Lynch: The Republic of Thieves - Gentlemen Bastards #3


• Book Log 7/2014 - Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice - Ancillary #1


• Book Log 6/2014 - Joss Whedon and others: Serenity – Those Left Behind - Firefly


• Book Log 5/2014 - Scott Lynch: Red Seas Under Red Skies - Gentlemen Bastards # 2


• Book Log 4/2014 - Veronica Roth: Divergent - Divergent #1


• Book Log 3/2014 - Patricia Briggs: Night Broken, Mercy Thompson #8


• Book Log 2/2014 - Donald Maass: The Fire in Fiction


• Book Log 1/2014 - Tom Pollock: The City's Son - Skyscraper Throne #1