What a month! 17 books makes it almost as incredible as January. I find it strange that on a year where I've decided to scale back my reading goal, somehow I'm almost on pace to hit 200. I don't really think it will last, but I'm enjoying the ride while it's going.
In terms of quality of experience, this might have been the most productive and enjoyable month I've had in a long time. Everything I read, was either excellent or thought provoking (often both.) I love that I'm getting in so many more classics this year. I finished Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird this month. Both are excellent books and rereads, but worth the time rereading them. I read a new translation of "Beowulf" by Headley which was purported to be more female forward which was kind of lost on me. However Headley's use of language makes me wish I could use it as the my teaching text in Brit Lit. Definitely worth a look.
I read three out of the seven TBR.co books I received at the end of February. Riot Baby fell a little flat, but Onyebuchi's use of language and clear passion makes him one to watch. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Harrow was oddly reminiscent of a Robert Louis Stevenson novel. Every Heart a Doorway by McGuire is the beginning book in the "Wayward Children" series. Both absolutely carried me away.
All in all, it's been an excellent month of reading and one I can only hope to have another similar one this year.
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