Forgetting February

Okay, so here it is, the first week of February and I never wrote a summary for January or looked ahead to February. What is this world coming to? I’ll tell you what the what. My life has been upside down lately. Between being sick and injured I haven’t been myself lately. Not working out has left me crank, crank, cranky! Not running has unhinged my balance. Being sick for the second time this winter doesn’t help.
So even though I blew it for January, here’s a redeemer for February. Without further ado, the books I will read (or have already read) for the month:

1.  A.D.: After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld in honor of Mardi Gras
2. Her First American by Lore Segal in honor of immigration month
3. I Shall Sleep…Down Where the Moon is Small by Richard Llewellyn (to finish the series started in December)
4. Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes (to finish the series started LAST April)
5. Beautiful Place to Die by Philip Craig
6. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now by Sandra Loh in honor of Loh’s birth month
7. Rocksburg Railroad Murders by K.C. Constantine (in finish the series started last month)
8. As She Crawled Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem in honor of his birth month (an audio book)
9. Liar by Rob Roberge (Early Review book)
10. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano (not on the challenge list; a recommendation by my sister)

Okay. So that’s a lot of books. But not really once you read my confessional: There were four that took a day apiece to read (Neufeld, Loh, Constantine, and Craig) and four more I have been reading for a while now (Llewellyn, Hughes, Roberge and Giordano). So, already a total of six are “in the can” so to speak even though it’s only early February. Clarification: I have a “new” rule for series. I’ll use the Constantine series to illustrate: I started Constantine’s series in honor of mystery month in January. When I finished the January book I didn’t wait until February 1st to start the second book in the series. True, I give myself a month to read a book but sometimes I don’t need that much time. If that makes sense.

I will be adding two more:

1. The Path to Power by Robert Caro in honor of Presidents Day
2. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder (audio book) in honor of February being the month we moved to Northampton (Kidder is a Northampton author).