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2024
My Year in Books
23,452
pages read
69
books read


Penric and the Bandit by Lois McMaster Bujold
Shortest Book
123
pages
Tribute by Sherwood Smith
Longest Book
595
pages

Average book length in 2024
339
pages

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
Most Shelved
3,126,788
people also shelved
Sage Empress I by Sherwood Smith
Least Shelved
161
people also shelved

Saana’s average rating for 2024
4.1
4.1

Rihasi by Rachel Neumeier
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.80 average

Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose

Saana’s first review of the year

really liked it
3 1/2 stars, rounded up to 4, just because I'm feeling generous. Of the series, this and the second one are the best ones. Afterward, I feel the story gets rather repetitive and the character growth seems to halt. ...more

SAANA’S 2024 BOOKS
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
it was amazing
The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
A Mind at Home with Itself by Byron Katie
Tribute by Sherwood Smith
Penric and the Bandit by Lois McMaster Bujold
No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz
The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice   Miller
Fledglings by Sherwood Smith
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Sage Empress I by Sherwood Smith
Love Sense by Sue Johnson
The Trouble with Kings by Sherwood Smith
The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
The Heir and the Spare by Kate Stradling
Books & Broadswords, Volume One by Jessie Mihalik
The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster
Star Wars by Jason Fry
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinley
Lady Avely's Guide to Truth and Magic by Rosalie Oaks
A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. Wrede
Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
The Impertinent Miss Templeton by Lynn Messina
The Rise of Skywalker by Rae Carson
Not That Duke by Eloisa James
To Dare a Duke by Emma V. Leech
Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher
Rihasi by Rachel Neumeier
Outlive by Peter Attia
Sasharia En Garde by Sherwood Smith
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Stephanie and the Wicked Deceiver by Alicia Cameron
The Queen's Gambit by Jessie Mihalik
A Touch of Shadows by Jessica Thorne
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher
The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Bookshop Cinderella by Laura Lee Guhrke
Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Lady Scandal by Laura Lee Guhrke
The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare
Bound and Tide by A.K. Caggiano
Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose
really liked it
Murder at Kensington Palace by Andrea Penrose
Murder at Half Moon Gate by Andrea Penrose
Murder at Queen's Landing by Andrea Penrose
Murder at the Serpentine Bridge by Andrea Penrose
Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare
To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters
To Swoon and to Spar by Martha Waters
Earls Trip by Jenny  Holiday
To Marry and to Meddle by Martha Waters
The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer
To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters
really liked it
The Highgate Cemetery Murder by Irina Shapiro
A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril by Manda Collins
First Light by Elizabeth   Hunter
Reader and Raelynx by Sharon Shinn
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
really liked it
To Woo and to Wed by Martha Waters
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton
Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher

Reader and Raelynx by Sharon Shinn

Saana’s last review of the year

DNF'd. My previous assessment holds true. If you want to read something from this author, pick Troubled Waters or the first book of this series. Leave this be.



It's been a while since I last read books from the Twelve Houses series, and my memories of the characters are somewhat hazy. But I distinctly feel this is not nearly as good as the first one. I'm almost 1/3 through the book, and I'm still to get vested with the characters. I fear this migh
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