This is the latest post in a series I started in late 2019, anticipating the twentieth anniversary of my bookblogging which will fall in 2023. Every six-ish days, I've been revisiting a month from my recent past, noting work and family developments as well as the books I read in that month. I've found it a pleasantly cathartic process, especially in recent circumstances. If you want to look back at previous entries, they are all tagged under bookblog nostalgia.

My conversations with my current employer continued in April 2014, but then petered out for a few months. I did have work trips to both Cyprus and Barcelona; much more enjoyably I also went to Eastercon, Satellite IV in Glasgow, where I had a great time despite forgetting to bring any actual money (thanks, once again, to the friends who helped me out with some instant liquidity) and managed (to some later confected controversy) the transmission of the Hugo final ballot to most of the world's media, and started a fight with Vox Day. I then celebrated my birthday with a visit to a convention in Antwerp, where F met the true Voice of Mario.

Colin Baker was also there.

I read twenty books that month. Unlike in some previous cases, I don't appear to have uploaded covers at the time.

Non-fiction 6 (YTD 19)
Adventures with the Wife in Space, by Neil Perryman
Anglicising the Government of Ireland, by Jon Crawford
Understanding the Lord of the Rings, eds. Rose A. Zimbardo & Neil D. Isaacs
Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
Other People's Countries, by Patrick McGuinness
Need for Certainty, by Robert Towler

Fiction (non-sf) 4 (YTD 12)
Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann
Revelation, by C. J. Sansom
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, by Alexander McCall Smith
Cheese, by Willem Elsschot

SF (non-Who) 5 (YTD 27)
Any Given Doomsday, by Lori Handeland
Inverted World, by Christopher Priest
Deathless, by Cat Valente
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, by Neil Gaiman
Assassin's Quest, by Robin Hobb

Doctor Who 4 (YTD 26)
Amorality Tale, by David Bishop
Return of the Living Dad, by Kate Orman
Hope, by Mark Clapham
A Handful of Stardust, by Jake Arnott

Comics 1 (YTD 3)
Aldébaran #5: La Créature, by Leo

~6,300 pages (YTD ~26,300)
5/20 (YTD 24/85) by women (Zimbardo, Handeland, Valente, Hobb, Orman)
0/20 (YTD 2/85) by PoC

The best of these was Orwell's classic Homage to Catalonia, which you can get hereThe Ocean at the End of the Lane, which you can get here, and Other People's Countries by Patrick McGuinness, which you can get here. Very underwhelmed by Lori Handeland's urban fantasy, Any Given Doomsday, which you can get hereAmorality Tale, which you can get here.