Books Read--2015

[filkferengi]

January, 2015
Kaoru Mori--A Bride’s Story Volume 1
Sheila Roberts--The Nine Lives Of Christmas
Mary Roberts Rinehart--The Best Of Tish
Katherine Addison [Sarah Monette]--The Goblin Emperor
Elizabeth Enright--The Four-Story Mistake
Terry Pratchett--Pyramids [reread--Mark Reads]
Tate Hallaway--Precinct 13
Sheila Roberts--Better Than Chocolate
Dawn Eastman--Pall In The Family
Goscinny & Uderzo--Asterix The Gladiator
Goscinny & Uderzo--Asterix & The Banquet
Goscinny & Uderzo--Asterix & Cleopatra
Seanan McGuire--“Velveteen Vs. The Thaw” [reread]
Seanan McGuire--“Velveteen Vs. Balance”
Sharon Lee--”The Gift Of Music” [Archers Beach reread]
Shelley Freydont--High Seas Murder

February, 2015
Shelley Freydont--Silent Knife
Jennifer Ashley--The Many Sins Of Lord Cameron
Tamora Pierce--Daja’s Book [reread--Mark Reads]
Erika Chase--A Killer Read
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson--Bad News For Outlaws: Bass Reeves
Goscinny & Uderzo--Asterix & The Cauldron
Jennifer Ashley--The Duke’s Perfect Wife
Goscinny & Uderzo--Asterix In Spain
Kaoru Mori--A Bride’s Story Volume 2
Goscinny & Uderzo--Asterix & The Roman Agent
Elizabeth Enright--Then There Were Five
Shelley Freydont--Midsummer Murder


So many delights and new discoveries! Although _The Madness Of Lord Ian McKenzie_ is my favorite of the Jennifer Ashley series, the others are quite entertaining. I'd not read much romance for a while, so it was a nice re-introduction.

I'd never read Astérix in English before, so it was delicious to discover that the puns are ever bit as dire in English [only I get more of the references].

Elizabeth Enright continued to be a revelation of complicated, intelligently written *fun* I wish I'd found decades earlier. Only, would I have been able to savor the lyrical moments as much then?

The Kaoru Mori series is so fabulously illustrated & has such vivid characters!

I don't read nearly as much sf/fantasy as I used to, in part because of the time and opportunity cost, but _Goblin Emperor_ was so immersive! Languages & cultures & world-building & a sweet, insightful protagonist who was a delight to spend time with, oh, my!

Mark [Oshiro] still flails epically over at Mark Reads, & cosy mysteries with punny titles are still fun.