February is the Superbowl. February is forty. February is rock and roll and houses. February is family. February is putting the mourning behind.
For books, February is a lot of really fun reading. All of them are relatively short (as compared to last months):
- The Cult of Personality by Annie Murphy Paul ~ in honor of National Psychology Month (nonfiction)
- The Good Patient by Kristin Waterfield Duisberg ~ in honor of National Psychology Month (fiction)
- Fool by Frederick G. Dillen ~ in honor of Friendship Month (TBEL)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker ~ in honor of Alice’s birthday
- The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe~ in honor of Expect Success month
- Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman ~ in honor of Massachusetts becoming a state in February (Lipman is a Massachusetts writer).
- Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban ~ in honor of Russell’s February birthday
If there is time I will add:
- Powers That Be by David Halberstam ~ in honor of Scholastic Journalism Month
And. Because I forgot to include this in the January Was post – I have read a total of 217 books since starting the project. Seven were in the month of January 2009.
~*LunaSea*~ 