Reading Wrap-Up: February 2012

Happy 1st day of March–it’s almost spring! Although, I don’t know why I’m so excited about spring since we didn’t really have any winter to speak of. I don’t know what it’s been like where all of you live, but it’s been pretty spring-like here in Central PA this whole time. Weird.

Well, I read just as many books in February as I did in January, but the books I read in February were considerably shorter. I also strayed from my TBR pile quite a bit, so I need to dig back into it this month. I really wanted to have more reviews done, but my kids gave me a cold last weekend, and I really haven’t felt like doing much of anything for the past four or five days. This is the first cold I’ve had since LAST winter, so I can’t complain, but it turned my brain into a big ball of fuzz, so writing reviews just wasn’t going to happen. Keep your eyes open for a bunch of reviews next week!

Here’s a look at what I accomplished in February:

Number of books read:  14
YTD:  28

Number of books in progress:  3

• Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
• The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison, edited by Justine Tally
• House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski

Number of pages read:  3,771
YTD:  8,866

Books reviewed:

• When She Woke, by Hillary Jordan
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (a different kind of review)
• One Day It’ll All Make Sense, by Common
• The Science of Kissing, by Sheril Kirshenbaum
• The Bee-Loud Glade, by Steve Himmer
• The Falls, by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
• Home, by Toni Morrison
• Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Forgotten Country, by Catherine Chung

Reviews in progress:

• The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, by Benjamin Hale
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
• The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
• In One Person, by John Irving
• Field Notes on Democracy, by Arundhati Roy
• Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine
• Thoughts on my re-read of The Bluest Eye and Sula, by Toni Morrison

**I’m using the Daytum website to keep track of my reading stats this year, so you can follow my progress at any time by visiting my Daytum profile.

Reading Challenges progress:

• Back to the Classics Challenge:  1/9  (YTD:  3/9)
• November’s Autumn Classics Challenge:  The Age of Innocence: Inspired Correspondence
• Mount TBR Reading Challenge:  3/40  (YTD:  10/40)
• Chunkster Reading Challenge:  1/14  (YTD:  4/14)
• End of the World Reading Challenge:  3,035  (YTD:  7,613)

**You can follow my progress and learn more about each challenge under the Challenges tab in my menu bar.

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If you missed the news, Ashley (my 11-year-old daughter) has decided to participate in two of the challenges with me: the Back to the Classics Challenge and the Mount TBR Challenge. She doesn’t have a place to review the books she’s read, so she’s just doing the reading and keeping track of her progress in a notebook.

Here’s a look at what Ashley accomplished in February:

Number of books read:  9
YTD:  17

• Trixie Belden and the Mystery at Saratoga, by Kathryn Kenny
• Oh Honestly, Angela!, by Nancy K. Robinson
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
• Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings, by Helene Boudreau
• Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• As Simple as It Seems, by Sarah Weeks
• Standing for Socks, by Elissa Brent Weissman
• The Boy on Cinnamon Street, by Phoebe Stone
• Warriors 2: Fire and Ice, by Erin Hunter

Number of pages read:  2,003
YTD:  4,034

Reading Challenges progress:

• Back to the Classics Challenge:  1/9  (YTD:  4/9)
• Mount TBR Reading Challenge:  3/50  (YTD:  7/50)

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What did you read in February that you really loved? How do you feel about your reading progress and the goals you have set for yourself so far this year?