It's been a long year, with some serious ups and downs. In October, I finally got top surgery! Zero regrets, apart from wishing it could've happened sooner. I feel so much better with a load off my chest!
I've come a very long way from where I was when I started this blog, jobless, unhappy in my body, and just generally not in a great place mentally. I was looking for something better, and my life has reached a much better place since.
We spent the last few months babying my cat Maxie though, as she slowly succumbed to cancer. We had a lot of debates about when and how to let her go, as she gradually went downhill and her ear tips curled from prednisone, but she was still enthusiastically eating and even had some of our chicken the night before she passed away quietly in her sleep, sparing us the decision.
I still miss her, and 13 years does not seem like long enough.
But I did read, through the year, and here's the final list. Maintaining my streak of beating 100 books per year.
Merrow - Amanda Braxton-Smith
Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
Pumpkin Heads (GN) - Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks
What if We Were... (GN) - Axelle Lenoir
The Witch Boy (GN) - Molly Knox Ostertag
Ratscalibur - Josh Lieb
Castle Waiting Volumes I & II (GN) - Linda Medley
The Ringmaster's Wife - Kristy Cambron
The Great & Only Barnum - Candace Fleming
Orphans of the Carnival - Carol Birch
Haunting at Bonaventure Circus - Jaime Jo Wright
The Dogtrot Murder - Nick Sanders
Swords: An Artist's Devotion (picture book) - Ben Boos
The Wonders - John Woolf
TAZ: Eleventh Hour (GN) - The McElroys
The Church of Marvels - Leslie Parry
Self-Made Man - Norah Vincent
The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
The Girl from the Sea (GN) - Molly Knox Ostertag
Snapdragon (GN) - Kat Leyh
Backwoods Witchcraft - Jake Richards
Becoming a Man - P. Carl
Fangs (GN) - Sarah Anderson
The Dreaming I: Pathways & Emanations - Simon Spurrier
Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbit
The Hidden Witch (GN) - Molly Knox Ostertag
The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin
Garbage Night (GN) - Jen Lee
Blackwater (GN) - Jeanette Arroyo & Ren Graham
City of Villains - Estelle Laure
Cottons: The Secret of the Wind (GN) - Jim Pascoe
As the Crow Flies (GN) - Melanie Gillman
Dewey's Nine Lives - Vicki Myron
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner - Terry Pratchett
Grandma Gatewood's Walk - Ben Montgomery
Archival Quality (GN) - Ivy Noelle Weir & Steenz
Pumpkin - Julie Murphy
Dumplin - Julie Murphy
Howl's Moving Castle - Dianna Wynne Jones
Squire & Knight (GN) - Scott Chantler
House of Many Ways - Dianna Wynne Jones
Labyrinth Bestiary - S.T. Bende
Anya's Ghost (GN) - Vera Brosgol
Castle in the Air - Dianna Wynne Jones
Camp Whatever (GN) - Chris Grine
Ghostlight - Kenneth Oppel
Neverlanders (GN) - Tom Taylor & Jon Sommariva
Lumberjanes V1-4 (GN) - N. Stevenson & S. Watters
The Doors to Nowhere (GN) - Chris Grine
Lumberjanes V5-6 (GN) - N. Stevenson & S. Watters
Malamander - Thomas Taylor
Lumberjanes V7-8 (GN) - N. Stevenson & S. Watters
The Blue Salt Road - Joanne Harris
Wait 'til Helen Comes (GN) - Mary D. Hahn & Scott Peterson
Pearl of the Sea (GN) - Anthony Silverston &
Mistress of the Storm - M. L. Welsh
The Castle in the Attic - Elizabeth Winthrop
Hamster Princess #1 - Ursula Vernon
Long Lost - Jacqueline West
Lumberjanes V 9-11 (GN) - N. Stevenson & S. Watters
The Wainscott Weasel - Tor Seidler
Tin - Padraig Kenny
Lumberjanes V12-14 (GN) - N. Stevenson & S. Watters
Lighthouse Family 1: The Storm - Cynthia Rylant
Jed and the Junkyard War - Steven Bohls
The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street - Lauren Oliver
Sea Serpent's Heir #1 (GN) - Mairghread Scott & Pablo Tunica
Revenge of the Librarians (Cartoons) - Tom Gould
The Skull - Jon Klassen
Troll Mill - Katherine Langrish
The Bellwoods Game - Celia Krampien
Things in the Basement (GN) - Ben Hatke
The Girl from the Other Side #1-11 (GN) - Nagabe
Seven Wild Sisters - Charles de Lint
From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty
Saint Juniper's Folly - Alex Crespo
White Smoke - Tiffany Jackson
Greymist Fair - Francesca Zappia
All Out - Various Editor Saundra Mitchell
Hollow (GN) - Shannon Watters, B. Boyer-White, & B. Nelle
Over the Garden Wall: Distillatoria (GN) - Jonathan Case
The Unlikely Ones - Mary Brown
Thornhedge - T. Kingfisher
Labyrinth - A.C. Smith
Twig (GN) - Skottie Young & Kyle Strahm
Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
Favorite Medieval Tales - Mary Pope Osborne
Middlegame - Seanan McGuire
