This was a strange reading year for me. I read 63 books and had 7 excellent reads – not bad. But all but one of those books were published in the 1990’s. I read 17 books published in 2012, and while most of them were good-to-very-good, none of them were excellent. (I had quite a few “did not finish” books this year too, so my ratio of good to bad books is worse than it seems by the books I included in the blog.) I still have a half dozen 2012 books in my TBR pile and a few more on my Amazon wish list, so maybe I’ll find a gem or two in there.
My best reads of the year:
A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant (2011)
The Doctor’s Wife by Cheryl St. John (1999)
This Is All I Ask by Lynn Kurland (1997)
Heart of Deception by Taylor Chase (1999)
The Arrangement by Joan Wolf (1997)
The Pretenders by Joan Wolf (1999)
The Promise of Jenny Jones by Maggie Osborne (1997)
On the positive side, this was the year I went “all in” with ebooks. Except for a handful of Regencies that aren’t available in ebook form, I’ve gone entirely electronic. It’s freeing not to have piles of books everywhere, but I wonder if converting to ebooks has made me more critical. (Or maybe it’s just my “old age”.)
In hopes of many great reads in 2013!
Karen
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