2014 In Review — Reading

This week I am discussing my year in review. I’ve talked about my blogging and I’ve talked about my challenge participation. Now I want to review my reading. This will be pretty short. My goal was to read at least one book per week, or 52 books. I surpassed that by quite a bit. I finished 64 books as of today (I am in the middle of two others, but probably won’t finish them before the New Year rolls in). I actually was better about reviewing than I thought I was. I reviewed all but 7 books. This means I reviewed about 90% of the books I read, and if I were setting a goal for next year, 90% would be a good target. I also started 3 other books, but did not finish them and did not review them.

I am not opposed to review a book I DNF, if it is for a reason that I think others should be aware of, such as language or content issues, so poorly written or edited that it is difficult to follow, etc. But that is not the case with any of these books. They simply did not hold my interest at the time I picked them up and I had other books I wanted to get to. It’s possible they would hook me if I picked them up again, and I didn’t read enough to give a good review, so they are just marked as DNF.

Here is a list of the books I read in 2014. Reviewed titles are linked to my reviews.

Reviewed

1. Playing St. Barbara
2. The Shogun's Daughter
3. The Kitchen House
4. Becalmed
5. Band of Sisters
6. Reached
7. A Life Apart
8. A Snug Life Somewhere
9. Steeped In Evil
10. The Moon Sisters
11. The Last Runaway
12. Baseball Animals
13. Mrs. Lincoln's Rival
14. The Time Traveler's Boyfriend
15. The Light Between Oceans
16. The Weight of Blood
17. Second Star
18. The Unfinished Child
19. Up At Butternut Lake
20. The Daring Ladies of Lowell
21. The Astronaut Wives Club
22. For Such A Time
23. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
24. A Beauty So Rare
25. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
26. Little Island
27. The Vacationers
28. Mambo In Chinatown
29. The Hurricane Sisters
30. The From-Aways
31. Elizabeth Is Missing
32. Losing Touch
33. Necessary Lies
34. Sisterland
35. A Triple Knot
36. All I Know and Love
37. The Explanation For Everything
38. Big Little Lies
39. This Is The Water
40. Cancel The Wedding
41. The Chaperone
42. The Virtues of Oxygen
43. Five Days Left
44. The Agincourt Bride
45. A Matter of Mercy
46. American Blonde
47. I Shall Be Near To You
48. The Lost Tribe of Coney Island
49. Certainty
50. Leaving Time
51. The Moonlight Palace
52. The Silent Wife
53. Lost and Found
54. The Ripper's Wife
55. The Underground Girls of Kabul
56. The Look of Love
57. Dorothy Must Die

Not Reviewed

1. Station Eleven
2. Elsewhere
3. Accidents of Marriage
4. The Perfect Mother
5. The Girl Who Came Home
6. Hold Still
7. The Cost of Love and Sanity

DNF

1. Swan House
2. Never Coming Back
3. A Long Time Gone