February List

 Ok! January was a fantastic reading month. I read 10 books which is right on track for 120 books in the year. Two of those 10 were 500+ page monsters, so it was really more like reading 12 books. On top of all that, I'm almost done with another 2 books (1 nonfiction and 1 fiction). I read a total of 4 nonfiction which puts me well with in my 10% ratio. I reviewed every book I read too. Great month.

My favorite books last month were A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers and My Plain Jane by Hand, Ashton, and Meadows for fiction. Notably, I am also really enjoying the Expanse series that starts with Leviathan Wakes but so far I'm in rereads. I'm looking forward to Abaddon's Gate which will be new to me. Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery was far and away my favorite of the nonfiction but they were all good reads.

The February List ended up big, at 20 fiction and 5 nonfiction. I couldn't figure out why at first. 12 books came off the list, so I dutifully stacked up 12 books to add only to find that my list was suddenly at 24 instead of 20. It's the series that are doing it to me. I've set it up so that when I read a series book, the line doesn't come off my main list until I finish the whole series. In effect, the read book is automatically replaced by the next book in the series. I'm a little torn about how to handle this. I like that the system keeps me on track for series books but I need new 'blood' each month to keep me engaged. Additionally, I keep accidently starting series. First books are often not marked to indicate that they are parts of series.

This month, at least, I'm going to leave it and maybe take advantage of my series loophole to bump up the series books and get those series off my overall list. I'm on the last book for 4 out of the 5 series. I'll look at getting back to a 20 book list in March.

1. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 16
2. Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown
1. Red Rising  (Finished 2/10/2025)
2. Golden Son
3. Morning Star
4. Iron Gold
5. Dark Age
6. Light Bringer
3. Enlightenment Is an Accident by Tim Burkett - (Finished 2/4/2025)
4. Quiet  by Susan Cain -NF 4
5. A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (Dropped for 2025)
6. Monk and Robot Series by Becky Chambers
1. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Finished 1/15/2025)
2. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Finished 2/11/2025)
7. LitenVerse by Nino Cipri
1. Finna  (finished 1/25/2025)
2. Defekt (Library) - 13
8. Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman (Library) - 18
9. The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey
1. Leviathan Wakes (Finished 1/9/2025)
2. Caliban's War (Finished 1/25/2025)
3. Abaddon's Gate - 6
4. Cibola Burn - 11
5. Nemesis Games-  
6. Babylon's Ashes
7. Tiamat's Wrath
8. Persepolis Rising
9. Leviathan Falls
10. Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford - NF 3
11. A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer by Maxie Dara (Requested out from under me at the library)
12. The French Girl by Lexie Elliot (Borrowed - Dad) - 20
13. Normal by Warren Ellis -19
14. Lady Janes series by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows
1. My Lady Jane (Finished 11/4/2024) 
2. My Plain Jane (Finished 1/12/2025)
3. My Calamity Jane - 15
15. The Girl From Everywhere Heidi Heilig -21
16. House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson (TBR) - 9
17. YouSpace Series by Tom Holt (Fantasy)
1. Doughnut (Finished 3/5/2024)
2. When It's A Jar (Finished 7/6/2024)
3. The Outsorcerer's Apprentice (Finished 1/15/2024)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Smug (Finished 1/1/2024)
5. An Orc on the Wild Side - 10
18. Fairy Tale by Stephen King - 8
19. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie (Library) -12
20. The Story Behind by Emily Prokop (Finished 2/25/25)
21. Smoke City: a Novel by Keith Rosson (Finished 2/16/2025)
22. The Writing Rope by Joan Sedita - NF 5 
23. The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song (Finished 2/26/2025)
24. John Cleaver Series by Dan Wells
1. I Am Not a Serial Killer
2. Mr. Monster
3. I Don't Want to Kill You
4. The Devil's Only Friend  (Finished 2/17/20250 
5. Over Your Dead Body
6. Nothing Left to Lose
25. Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (TBR) - 7 

Assigned or otherwise pre-scheduled Reading:

1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (class novel) 
2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (Thomas Book)