Revisiting My 2014 Reading List

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The last of my already-finished reading lists. A bit less exciting to post these when I’m not asking for advice about what to read for some of the authors, but I'm still glad to have the complete record on here.

Susan Fletcher - Journey of the Pale Bear

Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities. Didn’t review this one. No longer remember it very well. I keep reading Gopnik because I love Paris to the Moon SO much but none of his other books are the same.

Rosemary Sutcliff - Rudyard Kipling. Not a biography of Kipling so much as an overview of his children’s books. A useful source if you’re interested in Kipling’s influence on Sutcliff.

Francesca Forrest - “Semper Vivens.” A short intense story about a terraforming accident that has created a patch of land where all life is constantly transforming into other life, which recently became the focus for a cult which decided to land there even though it meant death-by-transforming-life; a story of an awe-ful place in the old sense of the word. Hard to get a hold of, which is why I didn’t review it, but so memorable.

Rumer Godden - Premlata and the Festival of Lights

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintances

Barbara Cooney - The American Speller: An Adaptation of Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller. A picture book loosely based on Noah Webster’s iconic speller. Like many picture books, I didn’t have enough for a whole post about it, and so it fell through the cracks.

Sarah Orne Jewett - A White Heron

Dorothy Sayers - Lord Peter

Hilary McKay - The Time of Green Magic

Jane Langton - Paper Chains

Rachel Bertsche - The Kids Are in Bed: Finding Time for Yourself in the Chaos of Parenting

Angela Brazil - A Popular Schoolgirl

Annie Fellows Johnston - Cicely, and Other Stories

Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Treasures of Weatherby

C. S. Lewis - The Great Divorce. Apparently I never reviewed this one? This shocks me. Surely I meant to review it and it just fell by the wayside. Clearly I’ll have to reread and review properly at some point.

Ben Macintyre - Operation Mincemeat

Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and Her German Garden

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