A Look Back On 2014
2014 was an interesting year. As a snapshot, I…
-Found out I’m going to be an aunt, next year! <3
-Went on some fun vacations. I travel frequently to see my family and was able to go Portland, OR for my sister’s 30th birthday and also to the Grand Canyon for a very cool hiking trip with my parents.
-Drafted 3 books (okay okay, I am 8k from finishing that third book, but still!)
-Edited 2 of those books until I couldn’t stand 1 of them and had to shove it back into the recesses of my computer
-Finished another year of my masters degree. I only have one semester left!
-Participated in PitchWars and got to mentor two AWESOME writers.
-Was let-go from my job, found a part-time teaching gig at a local community college, and then was re-hired by the first company (that was a crazy month, let me tell you).
-And, of course, I read some pretty amazing books.
Here’s my reading list from 2014! I’ve bolded the books that I particularly enjoyed (bold & italics mean I had book hangovers after finishing them 😀 ). I’m starting 2015 off with the The Real Boy by Anne Ursu and am loving it so far. What books did you fall head over heels for in 2014?
| The One I Left Behind- Jennifer McMahon |
| Annie & Fia: a Mind Games Story-Kiersten White |
| Two Boys Kissing- David Levithan |
| Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea- April Genevieve Tucholke |
| Tell the Wolves I’m Home- Carol Rifka Brunt |
| I Am The Messenger- Markus Zusak |
| Thinking in Pictures- Temple Grandin |
| Liesl & Po- Lauren Oliver |
| The Caged Graves- Dianne K. Salerno |
| Fire in the Hole- Elmore Leonard |
| Okay for Now- Gary D. Schmidt |
| The Girl who Chased the Moon (audiobook)- Sarah Addison Allen |
| The Rook- Daniel O’Malley |
| The Killing Moon- N.K. Jemison |
| The Sugar Queen (audiobook)- Sarah Addison Allen |
| The Coldest Girl in Coldtown- Holly Black |
| The Spindlers (audiobook)- Lauren Oliver |
| LaBrava- Elmore Leonard |
| These Broken Stars- Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner |
| Stardust (audiobook)- Neil Gaiman |
| All the Truth that’s in Me- Julie Gardner Berry |
| Cruel Beauty (audiobook)- Rosamund Hodge |
| Perfect Lies- Kristen White |
| Fire- Cristen Cashore |
| Throne of Glass- Sarah J. Maas |
| Control- Lydia Kang |
| The Walled City- Ryan Graudin |
| Crown of Midnight-Sarah J. Maas |
| The Winner’s Curse- Marie Rutkoski |
| The Murder Complex- Lindsay Cummings |
| Grave Witch- Kalayna Price |
| Grave Dance- Kalayna Price |
| Grave Memory- Kalayna Price |
| Cat Chaser- Elmore Leonard |
| Incarceron- Catherine Fisher |
| The Lost Sun- Tessa Gratton |
| Defy- Sara B. Larson |
| Another Little Piece- Kate Karyus Quinn |
| The Elegance of the Hudgehog- Muriel Barbery |
| Across the Universe-Beth Revis |
| Angelfall- Susan Ee |
| World After- Susan Ee |
| The Promise of Amazing- Robin Constantine |
| Heir of Fire- Sarah J. Maas |
| The Iron Trial- Cassandra Clare & Holly Black |
| Attachments- Rainbow Rowell |
| Soon I Will Be Invincible- Austin Grossman |
| Brightly Woven- Alexandra Bracken |
| The Near Witch- Victoria Schwab |
| The Cuckoo’s Calling- Robert Galbrath |
| The Night Gardener- Jonathon Auxier |
| The Alchemist-Michael Scott |
| The False Prince- Jennifer A. Nielsen |
I got to meet Jennifer Nielsen, author of The False Prince! She came to my local library, and I went with a friend of mine. She is really nice, and she signed a copy of the 3rd book, The Shadow Throne, for me. 🙂
I LOVED the Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. Definitely the best book I read this year. I also really loved The Night Circus. Thank you for that recommendation! 🙂
Okay For Now was such a good book!! I’ve been wanting to read The Murder Complex after doing an author event with Lindsay . . . she was a hoot! Anyway, sounds like you were one of the lucky ones to have a good year. Yay for being an aunt 🙂 🙂
Sounds like a great year! Hope the next one is as exciting. And with just as many book hangovers. I um… will be looking at this list next time I need a good one. 🙂 thanks.
That’s an impressive list of books. I only read 20 books in 2014, which is a little bit lame. My favorites were probably Clariel by Garth Nix, The Before Now and After Then by Peter Monn, and Dragonfly in Amber by Dianna Gabaldon. As for your year, sounds a lot like the corporation where I used to work when they lay people off and rehire them later. Guess that’s just how it goes. Happy 2015.