Year in Review: My Reads of 2014
The year began with a bang but ended with a bit of a whimper, I am sorry to say. My total book consumption was a little shy of six dozen books, but I read only one novel in December: All the Light We Cannot See. I started the year out favorably with one of my favorites of the year: The House of Silk , a Sherlock Holmes novel authorized by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is worthy: while still writing in the style of the original, Anthony Horowitz brings The House of Silk — and Holmes' usual suspect — gingerly, but strongly, into the modern-day mindset ( review ). Horowitz's follow-up, Moriarty , hit the shelves right before Christmas, and it's on my list of January reads. A favorite read from 2011, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ( review ) was followed up in 2014 by Hollow City . It also was wonderful, but it wasn't the end — which will please author Ransom Riggs' fans. It was not the only series on my reading list in 2014. I co...