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2014: The Year In Books

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With another year coming to an end, it is time to take a look back at the 23 books I read over the past year, an increase of 5 from last year. Of those 23, 7 were non-fiction and, of the 16 novels, 8 were TV show tie-ins. Only 5 of the books came from the “to-read” drawer, and 8 were e-books.  I read a grand total of 9000 pages, the most in 1 year since 1992.

A majority of the books I read this year were by authors I’ve never read before. The 14 authors that I read for the first this year were:
Amy Poehler
James VanOsdol
John Passarella
Mary Karr
Thomas E. Sniegoski
William Lashner
Teresa Strasser
Adam Carolla
Bryan Bishop
John Green
Rob Thomas
Jennifer Graham
Brian Jay Jones
Gord Rollo

The ghost writer(s) for Richard Castle and David Mack were the only authors I read multiple times in 2014.

The six books that I read this year that were released this year were Richard Castle’s Wild Storm, Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Greg Rucka’s Bravo, William Lashner’s The Barkeep, Adam Carolla’s President Me, and The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham.

Finally, the breakdown by month.  Vacations in April and December certainly helped pad their totals a tad bit.
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Book 3 (of 52) – The Jigsaw Man

The Jigsaw Man - Gord Rollo

The Jigsaw Man – Gord Rollo

A homeless man strikes a deal to trade his right arm for $2 million, but quickly finds out that the whole thing is a rouse and is slowly turned in to a modern day Frankenstein’s monster.  Gord Rollo spins a tale that starts with the desperation of the homeless to make better lives for themselves and/or their loved ones and shows how a deal with the devil, in this case, a crazy doctor hellbent on rebuilding his son’s body, rarely works out as intended.  Mike Fox, the protagonist, signed up to give away an arm and ended up as a patchwork of many different pieces, with only his original head and spinal column in place.

I had never heard of Rollo before coming across this book, which I assume was available for free from the Kindle store.  It was an interesting tale, and I’m glad that I ended up reading it, but I don’t know that I’ll be checking out any of his other works.  It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the book, but I haven’t really spent much time delving into the horror genre lately.  Maybe some day in the future.