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February 2024 Wrap-up

February TBR Pile (26/28):

  1. Bookworms BC: That Kind of Guy by Talia Hibbert (reread)

  2. Friend BC: The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

  3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

  4. Kid Read Aloud: Guards! Guards! by Terry Prachett ✓

  5. Kid Read Aloud: Ban This Book by Alan Gratz ✓

  6. Kid Read Aloud: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson ✓

  7. Kid Read Aloud: Tales from the Odyssey Part One by Mary Pope Osborne ✓

  8. Kid Read Aloud: Tales from the Odyssey Part Two by Mary Pope Osborne ✓

  9. Kid Read Aloud: The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith ✓

  10. Fantasy: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

  11. Fantasy: Malamander by Thomas Taylor

  12. Fantasy: Haunted Holiday by Kiersten White

  13. Fantasy: A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

  14. Fantasy: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire

  15. Science Fiction: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

  16. Science Fiction: System Collapse by Martha Wells

  17. Romance: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert

  18. Romance: Untouchable by Talia Hibbert

  19. Romance: A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

  20. Romance; Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband by Melissa Mayhue

  21. Romance: Hunt on Dark Waters by Katee Robert

  22. Thriller/Mystery: The Last One by Will Dean

  23. Thriller/Mystery: The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas

  24. Thriller/Mystery: Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty

  25. Comics: Confetti Realms

  26. Horror: Dead Voices by Katherine Arden

  27. Horror: Mimi’s Tales of Terror by Junji Ito

  28. Nonfiction: Sellout by Dan Ozzi

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 7812 pages
Pages Remaining: 257,870 pages

Current Read - The Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (6):

During a trip to Half Price Books, I grabbed a few clearance books off the shelves.

  • The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

  • Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

  • Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

From BOTM, I grabbed The Mayer of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham.

And I put in a Thriftbooks order for some homeschool stuff, but also two books for me.

  • To Seduce a Sinner by Elizabeth Hoyt

  • To Desire a Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt

UnRead Shelf Progress

  • Starting Number: 330

  • Books Read: 4

  • Books Acquired: 6

  • Books Unshelved: 7

  • Finishing Number: 325

March TBR Pile:

  1. Bookworms BC: NONE

  2. Friend BC: The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

  3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

  4. Kid Read Aloud: The Witches by Roald Dahl

  5. Kid Book Club: The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf

  6. Fantasy: Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge

  7. Science Fiction: The Rise and Fall of DODO by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

  8. Science Fiction: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

  9. Historical Fiction: Two Wars and a Wedding by Lauren Willig

  10. Romance: Ruthless by Anne Stuart

  11. Horror: The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

  12. Horror: What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

  13. Nonfiction: The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart

  14. Comics: Love Everlasting Vol. 1

  15. Comics: Love Everlasting Vol. 2

Movies Watched - It’s another Nic Cage Quarterly for the month! We ended up watching 13 Nicolas Cage movies.

  • It Could Happen to You

  • Trapped in Paradise

  • Kiss of Death

  • Leaving Las Vegas

  • The Rock

  • Con Air

  • Face/Off

  • City of Angels

  • Snake Eyes

  • 8MM

  • Bringing Out the Dead

  • The Family Man

  • Gone in 60 Seconds

And one non-Nic Cage Movie

  • Anyone But You

TV Shows Watched

  • Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist S1

  • The Bachelorette S28

  • The Buccaneers

  • Below Deck

Comments - Another huge reading month for me! I managed almost a book a day throughout the month. This was helped by my early month reading weekend and some late nights. We also did a decent job at watching Nic Cage movies for our big year project.

Next up on the TBR pile: