February Book Report

February 2021

I finished 15 books last month, many of them mysteries.

A quote from this month's reading:

"A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you."
-- Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 1 was non-fiction and none were poetry (toward my goal of 10 non-fiction books and some poetry this year) 
• 1 was a book I own but hadn't read before (#unreadshelfproject2021) 
• 1 counts toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• 2 counted toward the Canadian Book Challenge 
• I didn't finish anything from my Classics Club List or for the Back to the Classics Challenge this month

Here are the books I finished in February 2021: 

1. The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes -- this is the one I had skipped past in January 3-stars)
2. Love, Lies and Liquor by M. C. Beaton (3-stars)
3. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (3-stars)
4. Beach Read by Emily Henry  (audiobook, 3-stars)
5. The Edge by Dick Francis  -- My first 5-star read this year
6.  Proof by Dick Francis  (audiobook, 4-stars)
7. And Be a Villain by Rex Stout  (3-stars)
8. Curtains for Three by Rex Stout  (3-stars)
9. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman  (audiobook, 4-stars)
10. Small Move, Big Change by Caroline Arnold  (4-stars)
11. The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes  (3-stars)
12. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel -- this was a book I felt like I should read and I expected it to be a slog, but it wasn't and I enjoyed it (3-stars)
13. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett  (4-stars)
14. The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters (audiobook, 3-stars)
15. Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum (3-stars)

I read quite a few good books this month and I discovered a new author, Dick Francis, whose work I am really liking so far.