February 2024 Wrap-up
- monthly wrap-up
February TBR Pile (26/28):
- Bookworms BC: That Kind of Guy by Talia Hibbert (reread)
- Friend BC: The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
- Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Guards! Guards! by Terry Prachett ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Ban This Book by Alan Gratz ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Tales from the Odyssey Part One by Mary Pope Osborne ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: Tales from the Odyssey Part Two by Mary Pope Osborne ✓
- Kid Read Aloud: The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith ✓
- Fantasy: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman ✓
- Fantasy: Malamander by Thomas Taylor ✓
- Fantasy: Haunted Holiday by Kiersten White ✓
- Fantasy: A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft ✓
- Fantasy: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire ✓
- Science Fiction: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells ✓
- Science Fiction: System Collapse by Martha Wells ✓
- Romance: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert ✓
- Romance: Untouchable by Talia Hibbert ✓
- Romance: A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone ✓
- Romance; Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband by Melissa Mayhue ✓
- Romance: Hunt on Dark Waters by Katee Robert ✓
- Thriller/Mystery: The Last One by Will Dean ✓
- Thriller/Mystery: The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas ✓
- Thriller/Mystery: Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty ✓
- Comics: Confetti Realms ✓
- Horror: Dead Voices by Katherine Arden ✓
- Horror: Mimi’s Tales of Terror by Junji Ito ✓
- Nonfiction: Sellout by Dan Ozzi ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 7812 pages Pages Remaining: 257,870 pages
Current Read - The Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books Bought/Received (6):
During a trip to Half Price Books, I grabbed a few clearance books off the shelves.
- The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
From BOTM, I grabbed The Mayer of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham.
And I put in a Thriftbooks order for some homeschool stuff, but also two books for me.
- To Seduce a Sinner by Elizabeth Hoyt
- To Desire a Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt
UnRead Shelf Progress
- Starting Number: 330
- Books Read: 4
- Books Acquired: 6
- Books Unshelved: 7
- Finishing Number: 325
March TBR Pile:
- Bookworms BC: NONE
- Friend BC: The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
- Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- Kid Read Aloud: The Witches by Roald Dahl
- Kid Book Club: The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf
- Fantasy: Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
- Science Fiction: The Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
- Science Fiction: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
- Historical Fiction: Two Wars and a Wedding by Lauren Willig
- Romance: Ruthless by Anne Stuart
- Horror: The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
- Horror: What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell
- Nonfiction: The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart
- Comics: Love Everlasting Vol. 1
- Comics: Love Everlasting Vol. 2
Movies Watched - It’s another Nic Cage Quarterly for the month! We ended up watching 13 Nicolas Cage movies.
- It Could Happen to You
- Trapped in Paradise
- Kiss of Death
- Leaving Las Vegas
- The Rock
- Con Air
- Face/Off
- City of Angels
- Snake Eyes
- 8MM
- Bringing Out the Dead
- The Family Man
- Gone in 60 Seconds
And one non-Nic Cage Movie
- Anyone But You
TV Shows Watched
- Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist S1
- The Bachelorette S28
- The Buccaneers
- Below Deck
Comments - Another huge reading month for me! I managed almost a book a day throughout the month. This was helped by my early month reading weekend and some late nights. We also did a decent job at watching Nic Cage movies for our big year project.
Next up on the TBR pile:
