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
- The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes -- this is the one I had skipped past in January 3-stars)
- Love, Lies and Liquor by M. C. Beaton (3-stars)
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (3-stars)
- Beach Read by Emily Henry (audiobook, 3-stars)
- The Edge by Dick Francis -- My first 5-star read this year
- Proof by Dick Francis (audiobook, 4-stars)
- And Be a Villain by Rex Stout (3-stars)
- Curtains for Three by Rex Stout (3-stars)
- The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (audiobook, 4-stars)
- Small Move, Big Change by Caroline Arnold (4-stars)
- The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes (3-stars)
- 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)
- The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (4-stars)
- The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters (audiobook, 3-stars)
- Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum (3-stars)