February started the month with a big ole bang. First, there was the Gee-I-Couldn’t-Have-Predicted-the-Winner-of-This-Matchup Superbowl. Then, there was me. Turning 40. Then, add in Smiley’s birthday, a rockandroll party and approval for financing, a memorial and a visit from mom… all in the first week! Like I said, February started with a bang! Then it turned into the wait and see month…which ended in a house!
For books it it was:
- Cult of Personality by Annie Murphy Paul. A fun, informative read!
- The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe. Not so fun.
- The Good Patient by Kristin Waterfield Duisberg ~probably one of my favorites of the list.
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker ~ really, really hard to read. So sad!
- Fool by Frederick Dillen ~ very psychological.
- The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman ~ very cute.
- Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban ~ speaking of cute!
- Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris ~ a very, very quick read in honor of Black History Month
- A Reconstructed Corpse by Simon Brett in honor of National Theater Month even though the acting in this mystery doesn’t take place on a stage…
- Tracks Across America by Leonard Everett Fisher ~ in honor on National Railroad Month
- The Powers That Be by David Halberstam ~ in honor of Scholastic Journalism month
As you can see, I did a lot of reading during that “wait and see” time! In the end, February was full of emotions as well as books and finally, finally a house!
I didn’t get to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and I started When the Time Comes by Paula Span – an Early Review book (review coming in March).
~*LunaSea*~ 