Moderated by High Fantasy track director Jennifer Liang and featuring myself, Hanako M. Ricks of the Fandom Hybrid podcast, author Ryan Cahill, and Rebecca Fant, this panel was alllll about the admired, beloved, and, yes, reviled, “Rogue Prince” Prince Daemon Targaryen.
(While some minor sound editing was done to make the original recording somewhat easier on the ears, please keep in mind that this was recorded live and therefore the sound quality is uneven at best.)
Geek Saga Podcast Episode 127: The Rogue Prince at Dragon Con 2024
While I posted my 2023 reading list before that year ended, I was finishing books right up until the last minute in 2024 – and here’s my list of the *63* books that I read this year!
Honestly the fact that I read so many is mostly thanks to the fact that I started listening to audiobooks when I run (courtesy of Spotify Premium for now, though I’m thinking about an Audible subscription). The full list is below, and here’s a little key: – A book with 3 stars marks those that made it into my top 6 – A book with 2 stars means it made it into [the bottom 6 of] my top 12 – A book with 1 star is a read that didn’t make it into the top 12 but that I still really enjoyed – Underlined titles are re-reads – Bolded titles mean I read a physical copy – Italicized titles denote audiobooks that I listened to …and FYI, if a book has no stars, that doesn’t mean I straight up didn’t like it, I just didn’t want to try to dig any deeper into star ratings than what’s listed above.
I would say that my ultimate favorite book this year was Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (close second being Red Dead’s History by Tore C. Olsson), but while I didn’t star any of the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris (the book series that HBO’s True Blood is based on!), it was definitely my overall favorite new series of the year 🙂 (Which…I think you can tell because if you actually look over the full list, you’ll see that I had trouble taking breaks while reading this series to check out other things, ha…also, when you read 10 books in the same series as fast as I did, and like some better than most but overall just enjoy the SERIES as a whole more than the books as single entities…why bother giving any sort of rating to them, amiright?)
NOVELS/NOVELLAS * Dust – Hugh Howey The Wind Through the Keyhole – Stephen King ** The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi – S.A. Chakraborty The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner Galloway’s Gamble – Howard Weinstein The Cylons’ Secret – Craig Shaw Gardner Sagittarius is Bleeding – Peter David Unity – Steven Harper Dance of Thieves – Mary E. Pearson Lucifer & the Great Baltimore Brawl – Howard Weinstein *** Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky *** Children of Ruin – Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Memory – Adrian Tchaikovsky * Zero Repeat Forever – G.S. Prendergast * Cold Falling White – G.S. Prendergast * Love and Ruin – Paula McLain The Valley of the Moon – Jack London Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller * Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi *** Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver * Heaven Breaker – Sara Wolf Maybe in Another Life – Taylor Jenkins Reid ** The Women – Kristin Hannah ** Babel – R.F. Kuang * The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides * Edgedancer– Brandon Sanderson * Dawnshard – Brandon Sanderson * Elantris – Brandon Sanderson * The Ending Fire – Saara El-Arifi * The Alloy of Law – Brandon Sanderson * Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris Club Dead – Charlaine Harris Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris * The Bands of Mourning – Brandon Sanderson Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris Mistborn: Secret History – Brandon Sanderson All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris * The Lost Metal – Brandon Sanderson * Wicked – Gregory Maguire From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris
“REAL LIFE” Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – Matthew Perry The Zodiac Revisited Volume 1 – Michael F. Cole Only Say Good Things – Crystal Hefner Down the Rabbit Hole – Holly Madison *** One in a Millennial – Kate Kennedy Book of Jack London Volume 1 – Charmian London Book of Jack London Volume 2 – Charmian London So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls – Jennifer Kaishin Armstrong ** I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are – Rachel Bloom The Vegas Diaries – Holly Madison Lonely Planet Tokyo What Not to Do in Japan * My Squirrel Days – Ellie Kemper *** Red Dead’s History – Tore C. Olsson ** Paris: The Memoir – Paris Hilton *** Gellhorn: A 20th Century Life – Caroline Moorehead Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism – Amanda Montell ** Eleanor and Hick – Susan Quinn
