What are we reading in February?

Happy February, everyone! What are you reading this month? I still haven't decided which book to pick up next, but I'm definitely planning on The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera and I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel at some point this month. How about you?

Today I finished Hollow Kingdom, by Kira Jane Buxton, which had a bunch of holds on it and couldn't be renewed, and was due back today. It was great! Thanks to RidgewayGirl for the rec.

Next up in library reading will be Claire Askew's new book, What You Pay For.

Just started Hollow Kingdom as well - I have heard SO much about it and loving it so far.

I am listening to and enjoying The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty and reading The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg which I am also enjoying.

I am reading Cousins, which is the first Macedonian novel to be translated into English, for the GeoCAT and Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle for the Non-fiction CAT. Just started Fredric Brown's The Lenient Beast for the Weird Title square of the BingoDog. He's written one called The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches but it doesn't seem to be readily available here.

I've already finished The Martian by Andy Weir and am reading L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais and also The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks.

>6 dudes22: I have had The Secret Chord in my TBR pile for so long. Look forward to hearing what you think.
And The Martian - love, love it!

My first finish of February and on palindrome day too! Lourdes Diary by James Martin is a short read that describes the author's pilgrimage to Lourdes and his experiences with people he met on the journey. This is for the GEOCAT challenge.

I've begun The Matrimonial Advertisement by Mimi Matthews.

I'm happily reading The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson and West with the Night by Beryl Markham.

Had to choose between two non-renewable-at-this-time library books, so I chose the one with the most holds on it: Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I, by Kelcey Wilson-Lee.

I’m reading Clouds of Witness and Ross Poldark.

I'm absolutely loving A Long Petal of the Sea.

Just finished Burn Boston Burn by Wayne M. Miller. Not sure what I'll start next.

I'm reading The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay, which is fine but I'm pretty sure won't be a keeper.

I finished Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman, and I am about half way through Tales from the Secret Annex by Anne Frank.

I'm about halfway through The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, and liking it so far!

I finished Tales from the Secret Annex (TravelKit) as well as Christmas Mystery of Love (for BingoDog and RandomCat) and The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System (also BingoDog). I am currently reading Live and Let Growl (MysteryKit) and The Key Lime Crime (NetGalley).

I'm reading Fredric Brown's The Lenient Beast and Anthony Powell's A Buyer's Market. Just picked up Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels from the library.

>19 pamelad: Me too! My hold on The House of Broken Angels came in this week as well. I was going to read it for A and U for AlphaKIT but it took too long and I gave up waiting for it! I'll have to find another slot for it now.

Currently reading Local Is Our Future by Helena Norberg-Hodge. If only the politicians and corporations had listened to her years ago, we would not have gone on the globalisation ride that has ruined our environment.

Squeezed in a short book today: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse, written by James Goss and illustrated (brilliantly!) by Russell T. Davies.

Also working on Successful Aging, by Daniel J. Levitin.

I've finished The Secret Chord and should finish L A Requiem later today. The. I'll be turning my attention to Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon and The Tale of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert

I'm currently reading Kushiel's Dart as part of the SFFKit's February Transformation theme, and Lynn Cullen's Reign of Madness. I started the latter when it was first published and thought I had lost it. But no! It's there, and I re-started it this week.

I'm rereading Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer, which is exactly the book therapy I'm craving right now!

Please Bury Me in the Library by Patrick Lewis for the "Library or thing in the title" BingoDog square. This was a series of short and silly poems about books and libraries, sort of a picture book really with colored illustrations. I actually know of a couple whose cremains were buried in a room at the Lilly Library at Indiana University. I saw their memorial tablets on the wall there when I was in library school.

Now working on Death from a Top Hat, by Clayton Rawson.

About to start The House of Broken Angels.

I'm starting I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel. I like her What Should I Read Next? podcast, so I'm hoping her book will be enjoyable as well.

I just finished Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym for BingoDog square "published in your birth year." This was another of her humorous and tongue-in-cheek comedy of manners novels. I enjoyed it very much.

As well as The House of Broken Angels, I am reading Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny, which is light and amusing.

I've just finished reading Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth which is number two on my 100 books from 1001 challenge I've set myself. I might do another one of these this month too, perhaps The Talented Mr Ripley or The Sea, the Sea.

I'm reading Work Like Any Other. It fits the RandomCAT for this month, as it was published in 2016.

I'm still working Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon and I've started The Vengeance of Mothers by Jim Fergus and downloaded 61 Hours by Lee Child.

Yesterday I started Is It All in Your Head? by Suzanne O'Sullivan, because it's due back at the library tomorrow.

Also getting into my first re-read of the year (and the decade!) with Ape and Essence, by Aldous Huxley.

Started:

Better Thinking, Better Chess by Joel Benjamin
Chess Calculation Training Volume 1: Middlegames by Romain Edouard

I've been saving Lucy Parker's latest contemporary romance, Headliners, for Valentine's Day, and so far it's meeting my high expectations!

I've started Only Killers and Thieves, it's pretty good so far.

Currently I am dividing my time between three books: The Forbidden Daughter by Shobhan Bantwal, Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais and The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell. All are very different from one another but I am enjoying each one.

I have finished The House of Broken Angels and Standard Deviation and have started Say Nothing.

>39 DeltaQueen50: I had to look up a book with the title Piglettes - it looks like a lovely read.

I am reading Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux. I am only into the beginning biographical section but there are some interesting chapters coming up, talking about the influence Little Women had and still has today.

Duplicate post - I was too impatient!

I'm starting Water Witch by Cynthia Felice and Connie Willis. I'm a huge fan of Willis but know nothing about Felice, so I'm not sure what to expect!

I have a day off today, so I plan to knock a mystery off the library pile: Murder by an Aristocrat, by Mignon G. Eberhart.

I may also knock a book out of the Pool: The Eejits, by Roald Dahl, translated into Scots by Matthew Fitt.

I'm reading A Short History of Christianity by a friend of mine, Stephen Tomkins, The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (for the January Non-Fic challenge in the 75ers group - I got distracted so am a bit behind!), and also need to soon start The Help for my real-life book group, and The Good Life Elsewhere (Vladimir Lorchenkov) for the February TravelKIT. I've also got a couple of fiction books which will hopefully be finished very soon - Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon, and Water Runs Slow Through Flat Land by Cliff Jones.

I've been reading like crazy this month yet I still have quite a pile of books that I set aside for February! Currently I am reading Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman, The Wife, The Maid and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon, and The Decoy Princess by Dawn Cook.

I'm reading Only Killers and Thieves and All This Could Be Yours.

I've finished The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel. I'm reading Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass and trying to finish Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon before my ebook library loan expires. I can't renew because someone else is waiting so I put myself back on the hold list. I also have 61 Hours by Lee Child on ebook loan and am going to start Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland.

Going back into the Pool with a Doctor Who novel that I am actually able to count for the "historical event" Bingo square: The Plotters, by Gareth Roberts, which is set in England at the time of the Gunpowder plot.

Also reading Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World, by Sam Howe Verhovek, about the de Havilland Comet and the Boeing 707.

I finished The Key Lime Crime by Lucy Burdette. I did not guess the killer in this one, nor did I guess the motive. I am usually pretty good at deducing the perp, but this one got me! Some new characters were introduced too.

Going from the jet age to mediaeval Europe with Four Queens, by Nancy Goldstone. Hoping to boost my history numbers a bit.

I finished Dead Man's Footsteps and an now reading Dead Tomorrow, number 4 and 5 in the Roy Grace series. I amassed several of these books a while back and never got around to making a dent in the series. I think I have up to number 12 on my Kindle.

I finished two mystery novels over the weekend, A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas and Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice.

I just finished The Binder of Lost Stories for NetGalley. I liked the information about books, bookbinding, how books affect our lives, and how the lives of people become intertwined. It was a bit slow going at the end, but I liked the alternating chapters between the 1800s and present day.

I am reading The Year At Thrush Green by Miss Read, The Vanishing Raiders by Fred Grove and starting Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers.

I've just started Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare. Seems like a fun, lightweight Regency romance, though I'm not 100% sold on it yet.

>54 LadyoftheLodge: - It's not quite the same thing, but there is a couple that has a company in RI that makes albums and journals, etc all by hand. And one of the partners Jason Thompson wrote a book called Playing With Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book. I might check out that book that you read also.

Since Lent begins today, I'm starting Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross by Richard John Neuhaus.

I'm reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles for my physical book and The Flinck Connection by Estelle Ryan for my ebook.

I finished Hope Deferred by Linda Byler for NetGalley. It was an Amish "romance" but the ending really fell flat for me and offered no real resolution of the main theme of the novel. Anna and Dave are the main characters, in love and in harmony from childhood, later separated by Dave's need for adventure and danger. I got tired of the endless descriptions of the Prodigal Son bad boy and skimmed them. The title made no sense to me at all. 3 stars

I am now reading Discernment by Henri Nouwen, a biography of James Martin (both of these for Lent) and another mystery novel for NetGalley.

>57 dudes22: Thanks for the information. I took a book-binding class in library school, and have a few manuals on how to do book-binding. My interest was grabbed when I read The Binder of Lost Stories. I will check out the book you mentioned.

Currently reading Deep South by Paul Theroux for February TravelKIT. Don't think I will finish in time!

I finished Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. At 900 pages, what was I thinking to choose it for February! It started as a "read at lunch" book but when I started reading it in chunks, Zowie! It really took off as an amazingly-written historical fantasy novel. And despite the courtesan theme, it is not one of the "vampire will do anything s/he can to anyone with a sexual nature on every single page" that becomes prevalent in far too many of this genre. Rather, it is palace intrigue in a sort-of medieval Europe as told through the eyes of a trained courtesan-spy.