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M.C.A. Hogarth--Coracle [Book 1]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Children”
Rose_Milburn--An Armsman’s Honour [LMB fan-novella reread]
Rose_Milburn--A Flower Of The Vor [LMB fan-novel]
Antoine de Saint Exupéry--The Little Prince [Mark Reads]
Jacques Prévert & Mordicai Gerstein--How To Paint The Portrait Of A Bird
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”On The Trail”
Linda O. Johnston--Oodles Of Poodles
M.C.A. Hogarth--”Bleach”
Nancy Coco [Nancy Parra]--To Fudge Or Not To Fudge
Sarah Gailey--”Bread And Milk And Salt”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--Coolhunting
L. A. Kornetsky [Laura Anne Gilman]--Collared
M.C.A. Hogarth--”Veterans”
Amanda Flower--The Final Reveille
Cory Doctorow--”Sole And Despotic Dominion”
John Scalzi--”Automated Customer Service”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Pudgygate”
Mollie Cox Bryan--Death Among The Doilies
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen--The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe [Mark Reads]
Deborah Donnelly--Bride And Doom
Annelise Ryan--Lucky Stiff
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”The Space Between Hope And Dreams”

In among the fanfic novels, there were lots of good cozy mysteries, too.

After 3 decades of me burbling about _The Little Prince_, ze spouse and I followed along with the Mark Reads videos. Although I imprinted on it so hard in high school, I'd never read it in English, so that was some interesting cognitive dissonance. Mark read it so fast, my spouse may have wondered what the fuss was about. We did enjoy Mark's reactions, though, so now ze spouse gets some of why I'm so enthused about Mark's videos.

Linda O. Johnston--The More The Terrier
Linda O. Johnston--Sit, Stay, Slay
Annelise Ryan--Working Stiff
Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger--Batter Up Wombat
Canon_is_relative--Unseen Stars [MWT fanfic]
Rose_Milburn--Another Innocent Bystander [LMB fan-novel]
Rose_Milburn--Ivan And The Armsmen [LMB fan-novel]
Rose_Milburn--An Armsman’s Honour [LMB fan-novella]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”The Tower”
Diana Pharaoh Francis--Putting The Fun In Funeral
Barbara Seuling & Gail Roth--Boo The Ghost & The Robbers
John Langstaff & Feodor Rojankovsky--Over In The Meadow
Mercer Mayer--Liza Lou And The Yeller Belly Swamp
M.C.A. Hogarth--”Leadership Lessons” [Alysha story]
Agnes Lester Brown--Unmasked
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Oathbreaker”
Terry Pratchett--A Hat Full Of Sky [Mark Reads]
Elizabeth Hunter--Ink: A Love Story On 7th & Main
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Dix” [Diving Universe novella]
Seanan McGuire--”Falling’s Free, Gravity Costs”
Jana Deleon--Gator Bait
Susannah Hardy--Olive And Let Die
Nancy Coco--All Fudged Up
Diane Duane--The Book Of Night With Moon [Mark Reads]
Wendy Tyson--A Muddied Murder

A lot of longer books. _A Hat Full Of Sky_ was absolutely mind-blowing. Mark Oshiro's always a delight, but especially on that one.

Sally Goldenbaum--Patterns In The Sand
Jeremy Whitley--Princeless-Raven: The Pirate Princess Book 1
Mark Twain--”The War Prayer”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Shadows On The Moon”
J. C. Eaton--Booked 4 Murder
Gayle Leeson--The Calamity Café
Allyson K. Abbott--Murder On The Rocks
Andy Runton--Owly & Wormy: Friends All Aflutter
Jana DeLeon--Swamp Sniper
Lucille Clifton & Ann Grifalconi--Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
Ellery Adams--The Secret, Book, & Scone Society
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”The Silence”
Maddie Day [Edith Maxwell]--Flipped For Murder
Leighann Dobbs--A Mew To A Kill
Mary Robinette Kowal--”Rocket’s Red: A Lady Astronaut Story”
Patricia Polacco--My Rotten Red-Haired Older Brother
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”FoL”
Naomi Kritzer--”Cat Pictures Please”
Fran Stewart--A Wee Homicide In The Hotel
Terry Pratchett--Monstrous Regiment [Mark Reads reread]
Carol Ann Martin--Looming Murder
Tomie dePaola--Bill And Pete Go Down The Nile
Consuelo Udave--Down By The Bay
Jennifer Jacobson--The Storytelling Club
Margaret Mahy--Simply Delicious
Carmen Agra Deedy & Laura L. Seeley--Agatha’s Featherbed
Jana Deleon--Dead Man Talking
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Heading West”
J. C. Eaton--Ditched 4 Murder
Linda O. Johnston--Beaglemania [reread]
Terry Pratchett--”The Sea And Little Fishes” [reread]

Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Spirit Guides”
John Chu--”Selected Afterimages Of The Fading” [Mark Reads]
Diane Duane--”Roshaun: On Ordeal” [Mark Reads]
Susannah Hardy--Feta Attraction
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Sales. Force.”
Rob Thurman--”Impossible Monsters”
Jim C. Hines--”Hunter, Healer”
Seanan McGuire--”Sleepover”
Tanya Huff--”If Wishes Were”
W. Gilbert Beers--The House In The Hole In The Side Of The Tree
Elizabeth A. Reeves--Baehrly Breathing
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Her Mother’s Secrets”
Katarina Bivald--The Readers Of Broken Wheel Recommend
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Ghosts”
Nin Harris--”Violets On The Tongue”
Aimee Pichi--”50 Ways To Leave Your Fairy Lover”
Margaret Ronald--”Silence In Blue Glass”
Margaret Ronald--”A Death For The Ageless”
Margaret Ronald--”Sweet Death”
Margaret Ronald--”Murder Goes Hungry”
Margaret Ronald--”A Serpent In The Gears”
Margaret Ronald--”Salvage”
Margaret Ronald--”The Governess And The Lobster”
Margaret Ronald--”Letters Of Fire”
Maree Kimberley--”Five Thousand Squares” [Mark Reads]
Margaret Ronald--”Dragon’s Eyes”
Margaret Ronald--”The Guilt Child”
Margaret Ronald--”A Family For Drakes”
Diane Duane--”Mamvish: On Ordeal” [Mark Reads]
Terry Pratchett--The Wee Free Men [Mark Reads reread]
Michaeline Duskova--”The Golden Years Of Nixie Voss”
Jenn McKinlay--About A Dog
Ian McDonald--”The Guile”
Nicola Bayley & William Mayne--The Patchwork Cat
M. C. A. Hogarth--”Healing Waters”
Nancy Atherton--Aunt Dimity And The Duke [reread]
Jana Deleon--Lethal Bayou Beauty

Well, that's a lot of short stories and novellas [Diane Duane!], and not so many books. Note the Jana Deleon; that Miss Fortune series is lots of rollercoaster, rollicking fun!

a tasty treat from Three Quarter Ale--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eJ54ojGoB0

So, here we go with those end-of-year posts.

Seanan McGuire--”Now Rest, My Dear”
Jessica Beck--Drop Dead Chocolate
Spider Robinson--”Two Heads Are Better Than One” [reread--Mark Reads]
Diane Duane--”Meetings On The Stair” [Mark Reads]
Louise Borden & Mary Kay Kroeger--Fly High! The Story Of Bessie Coleman
M.C.A. Hogarth--Spots The Space Marine: Defense Of The Fiddler
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Skating In Time”
Liza Baker & David McPhail--I Love You Because You’re You
Laura Numeroff & Felicia Bond--If You Take A Mouse To School
Brendan Wenzel--They All Saw A Cat
Nnedi Okorafor--”Mother Of Invention”
Charlie Jane Anders--”The Minnesota Diet”
M.C.A. Hogarth--Earthrise [Her Instruments Book 1]
Seanan McGuire--”Velveteen Vs. The Isley Crawfish Festival” [Mark Reads reread]
Robin McKinley--Sunshine [Mark Reads reread]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”The Voodoo Project”
Lesley Leadbetter--Harold The Owl Who Couldn’t Sleep
Bobby & Sherry Norfolk, Baird Hoffmire--Anansi And Turtle Go To Dinner
Jonathan London--Froggy Goes To School
Jonathan London--Froggy Gets Dressed
Jackie Mims Hopkins & Henry Cole--Prairie Chicken Little
Lunik--”Mister Vimes’d Go Spare!” [Terry Pratchett fanfic]
GriegPlants--”Windows” [Terry Pratchett fanfic]
cloudymagnolia--”A Good Enough Reason” [Terry Pratchett fanfic]
M.C.A. Hogarth--Rose Point [Her Instruments Book 2]
M.C.A. Hogarth--Laisrathera [Her Instruments Book 3]
M.C.A. Hogarth--A Rose Point Holiday [Her Instruments Book 4]
M.C.A. Hogarth--”Stormfront”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Flower Fairies”
Corinne Duyvis--”And The Rest Of Us Wait” [Mark Reads]
Catherynne M. Valente--”Two And Two Is Seven”
Leighann Dobbs--Ghostly Paws
Stephanie Gunn--”To Take Into The Air My Quiet Breath” [Mark Reads]
Seanan McGuire--”Something In The Rain” [Mark Reads]
Tansy Rayner Roberts--”Did We Break The End Of The World?” [Mark Reads]
Jennifer Crusie--Getting Rid Of Bradley [reread]
Dirgewithoutmusic--”The Small” [Tortall fic--Lalasa] [Mark Reads]
M. C. A. Hogarth--”Precious Things”
M. C. A. Hogarth--”Field Research”
Mary Clay--Bike Week Blues
Mary Clay--Murder Is The Pits
Fiona MacDonald--Knights And Castles
Diane Duane--Games Wizards Play [Mark Reads]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Still Life, With Cats”
Sally Goldenbaum--Death By Cashmere
Elinor Caiman Sands--”In The Sky With Diamonds” [Mark Reads]

Wow, that's a lot; talk about "en masse!" That may well have been my reading-est month this year. No surprise; since I didn't go to spring training with ze spouse, that was 10 days of uninterrupted reading time. It looks like I binged on Mark Reads Patreon videos and M.C.A. Hogarth. I got her _Spots_ novel in an e-book bundle. It was such compelling reading, I spent the whole day reading it on the desktop and then ordered the print edition. Fun!

The year started off fun, with a wide variety of fanfic, kid books, short stories, & some mysteries.

January, 2018

Seanan McGuire--”Write In Water”
Virginia Hamilton, Leo & Diane Dillon--The Girl Who Spun Gold
Charlotte Zolotow, Wendell Minor--The Seashore Book
Allyndra--”Millie’s Fate” [Diana Wynne Jones fanfic]
Rosencrantz--”Adjusting One’s Charm” [Diana Wynne Jones fanfic]
Tora Kowalski--”Lock Me In Your Pocket” [Tanya Huff fanfic]
Sistermagpie--”Mordre, She Wroot” [Wife Of Bath fanfic]
Arsenic--”Those Who Know Secret Things” [Secret Garden fanfic]
Voleuse--”Tapping On The Window With Your Thimble” [Mary Russell & Holmes fanfic]
Meretricula--”Sorcery & Sebastian” [Patricia Wrede fanfic]
GloriaMundi--”The Libertines” [Devil’s Cub fanfic]
Parhelion--”According To Plan” [Singing In The Rain fanfic]
Valderys--”Balance Point” [Philadelphia Story fanfic]
Avoliot--The Course Of Honour [original novel]
Jibrailis--”A Needle, A Thread” [Megan Whalen Turner fanfic]
Prinzenhasserin--”The Touching Of Lips” [Megan Whalen Turner fanfic]
Florianschild--”The Things You Build Yourself” [MWT fanfic]
April_Rainer--”Genuinely Self-Absorbed And Deeply Shallow” [Bujold fanfic]
Philomytha--”Three’s Company” [Bujold fanfic]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Millenium Babies”
Oliviacirce--”Wayfinding” [Diana Wynne Jones fanfic]
Fajrdrako--”Midwinter Queen” [Eleanor of Aquitaine fanfic]
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller--”Cutting Corners”
Zanda Myrande--”An Adverse Reaction” [reread]
Amal El-Mohtar--”Seasons Of Glass And Iron”
Heather Morris--”Maps Of Infinity”
Malinda Lo--”The Cure”
Kameron Hurley--”The Light Brigade”
Robert D. San Souci & Jerry Pinkney--The Talking Eggs
Valerie Flournoy & Jerry Pinkney--The Patchwork Quilt
Greg Henry Quinn & Lena Shiffman--The Garden In Our Yard
Michael Hainey--”The Natural” [Robert Redford Interview]
A. B. Paterson--The Man From Snowy River
Eiko Kadono & Satomi Ichikawa--Grandpa’s Soup
Ludmila Zeman--The Revenge Of Ishtar
Jay Williams--A Bag Full Of Nothing
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Waltzing On A Dancer’s Grave”
Sherry Thomas--A Study In Scarlet Women
Kristine Kathryn Rusch--”Overworked”
Jim Ellsworth & Barbara McClintock--Aunt Pitty Patty’s Piggy
Barbara McClintock--Emma And Julia Love Ballet
Elizabeth Winthrop--Potbellied Possums
Bryna Stevens--Handel And The Famous Sword Swallower Of Halle
Geekhyena--”We Will Not Be Charmed Into Compliance” [Harry Potter Fanfic]
Catherine McLean--”Introduced Species”
Jacqueline Frost--Twelve Slays Of Christmas
Sarah Rees Brennan--”An Old-Fashioned Unicorn’s Guide To Courtship”
Patience Griffin--Meet Me In Scotland
Jessica Beck--Tragic Toppings
Jessica Beck--Killer Crullers
Lois McMaster Bujold--Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen [reread]
Stephanie L. Weippert--”Days Of Future Passed”