You know that annoying little thing called life that always seems to take up all your time? Yes, that! That's what has gotten in between me and my first true love: Reading. I am ashamed to say this year wasn't one for the books. (see what I did just then? :) So here is a book round up of the books that should have been. 2014, please spare me the drama that your friend 2013 served me up, (with sides of huge life changes and second helpings of trials and tribulations) and let me get some reading done, mmkay?? First off, I actually started this book and put it down at some point. I really think it has potential. It usually takes me a while to get into historical fiction but once I do, I am always glad I stuck with it! I have a feeling I'll love this book because I LOVED "The Doctor and The Diva" A gripping novel set in Belle Époque Paris and inspired by the real-life model for Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen and a notorio