Books read--2013

Hey, nearly 2 years behind this time!

The year started off with a big rereading bang [Kerry Greenwood being all addictive like that]. It was also notable as being when I started listing the Mark Reads books, although I'd been following along for quite a while by then. Sometimes it takes us a while to start giving ourselves credit for things we do.


January, 2013
Mercedes Lackey--Redoubt
Yanni Kuznia--A Fantasy Medley 2
Paula Guran, ed.--Season Of Wonder
Grace Burrowes--Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish
Denise Swenson--Little Shop Of Homicide
Fran Stewart--Blue As Blue Jeans
Tamora Pierce--Wild Magic [reread--Mark Reads]

February, 2013
Ella Young--The Wonder Smith And His Son
Barbara Bretton--Just Desserts [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Murder On A Midsummer Night [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Dead Man’s Chest [reread]
Neil Gaiman--Odd and the Frost Giants
Scott McCloud--Understanding Comics
Tamora Pierce--Wolf Speaker [reread--Mark Reads]
Kerry Greenwood--Unnatural Habits
Helen Macie Osterman--The Accidental Sleuth
Marcia Williams--Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Marcia Williams--Hooray For Inventors!
Marcia Williams--Ancient Egypt
Kerry Greenwood--The Green Mill Murder [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Ruddy Gore [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Urn Burial [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Cocaine Blues [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Flying Too High [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Murder On The Ballarat Train [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Raisins And Almonds [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Death Before Wicket [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Away With The Fairies [reread]

March, 2013
Kerry Greenwood--Murder In Montparnasse [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--The Castlemaine Murders [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Queen Of The Flowers [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Death By Water [reread]
Kerry Greenwood--Murder In The Dark [reread]
G. M. Malliet--Wicked Autumn
Kerry Greenwood--A Question Of Death [reread]
Robin Sloan--Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Kerry Greenwood--Murder On A Midsummer Night [reread]
Kari Lee Townsend--Tempest In The Tea Leaves
Tamora Pierce--Emperor Mage [reread--Mark Reads]
Fran Stewart--Indigo As An Iris
Patricia Sprinkle--Murder At Markham
Jo Dereske--Miss Zukas & The Library Murders
Kari Lee Townsend--Corpse In The Crystal Ball
Helen Macie Osterman--The Stranger In The Opera House
Helen Macie Osterman--The Elusive Relation
M. K. Wren--Curiosity Didn’t Kill The Cat


What a blast from the past! That's when I started reading Patricia Sprinkle [& I've read so many of hers since, over various series] & the Miss Zukas mysteries [marvellous characterizations! Alas, there are no more.]

Yet more evidence that, although emotionally I still identify primarily as a science fiction reader, what I'm actually reading most nowadays is mysteries [cosy, preferably with an animal on the cover & a bad pun in the title].

Does anyone else have that disconnect between fandom identification and actual activity?