It was a hard month, friends. I can't concentrate and I'm stalled on an audiobook everyone loves but I am not vibing with. Thank goodness for a new month.
2/2: Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin (library, 2024) - Why didn't I DNF this book? No one knows. I'm super over women who need to get their shit together, but they're quirky so no one calls them on it. 2/5 stars
2/8: Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence (library 2017) - A librarian writes about books. I mean, what could go wrong? 4/5 stars
2/9: The Long Game (Green Oak #1) by Elena Armas (library, 2023) - Woman is sent to the middle of nowhere to help with a girls soccer team after being a PR embarrassment at her job with a national soccer organization. She just so happens to meet a newly retired hot soccer player there. If you like a slooooow burn with the first three-quarters of the book bickering and the last quarter our hero playing alpha man carrying her all over the place, then this is the book for you. But be prepared for a book over 370 pages long! 3/5 stars
2/13: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (library, 2024) - Lovely writing - an interesting look at a coming-of-age. 4/5 stars
2/21: Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1) by Kerry Greenwood (library, 1989) - Book club choice for this month. Not my favorite. 2.5/5 stars
2/27: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (library ebook, 2019) - I don't know, friends. This was a collection of short vignettes about different characters and they all eventually meet at an event at the end. I want to like this type of book, but it never really works for me. 3/5 stars
Average star rating: 3.08/5 stars
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What was your best book of February?
Best book of February? Well duh, Blue Castle of course. Lately my reading has been mostly "good enough" books.
ReplyDeleteYou did have a rough month! Lots of 3 stars and below there. My best book of February was Death's End by Cixin Liu. Everything else kind of pales by comparison after that.
ReplyDeleteI lovvved The Blue Castle, but my absolute favourite was probably The Secret Book of Flora Lea.
ReplyDeleteThe Husband's Secret was a reread for me but the sole 5 star read in February, so I guess that. But I loved The Husbands and Summer Fridays, which were 4.5s.
ReplyDeleteLike you I found February to be a difficult month. My concentration on books hit an all-time low, so that I've been *reading* West with Giraffes, a pleasant easy story, all month. I'm almost ashamed to admit that.
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