February Book Report

Picture Books! Feb. 2022

I finished 14 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you’ve thought in a certain way for many years, if you’ve had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you’re bound to feel … disconnected”
― Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 4 were non-fiction (toward my goal of 25 non-fiction books this year) but none counted toward the NonFiction Reader Challenge 
• 3 were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none was poetry (toward my goal of reading 4 poetry books this year) -- I do have a poetry book in progress though
• 3 counted toward the Canadian Reading Challenge 
• 2 were from my Classics Club List and 3 counted toward Back to the Classics

• 2 counted toward the Cruisin' Through the Cozies challenge 
• none counted toward the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge -- I have a book in progress for this challenge
• 1 counted toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• 2 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• 3 were books for my Century of Books project

 Here are the books I finished in February 2022: 

1. Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (4-stars)
2. New Grub Street by George Gissing (4-stars)
3. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (4-stars)
4. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (5-stars)
5. Esau and Jacob by Machado de Assis (3-stars)
6. How to Change by Katy Milkman (3-stars)
7. Thyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert (a "freebie" cozy, 3-stars)
8. Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber (4-stars)
9. Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill (3-stars)
10. The Hollow by Agatha Christie (4-stars)
11. Readers' Advisory Guide to Historical Fiction by Jennifer Baker (4-stars)
12. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (audio, 4-stars)
13. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (3-stars)
14. The Body in Question by Jill Ciment (4-stars)

I did very well reading for challenges this month: I read 14 books and thanks to choosing books for multiple purposes I was able to count 23 books toward my various projects. 

In addition to the titles listed above I read a big stack of picture books this month (for a project at the library where I work). There were some really good ones. I especially liked This Very Tree  (which I expected to be sappy, but it wasn't at all) and The Alphabet's Alphabet.