Books read in February
A book set in the future: The Ice Ghost by Kathleen O'Neal Gear (Feb 1-4)
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list (Iceland): Outside by Ragnar
Jónasson (Feb 5-6)
A book from a genre you typically avoid: How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy (Feb 7-8). A comic book about the Karluk expedition, where Steffanson abandoned his men and a bunch of people died..crazy
A book set in the snow: Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates (Feb 10-13). This book literally gave me nightmares..everyone was getting their heads chopped off. O_o I usually like locked-in mysteries, but this one freaked me out lol
A book with a neurodivergent main character: I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder by Sarah Kurchak (Feb 13-15). Parts of this book were relatable, like her saying jeans felt like being in an iron maiden, but unfortunately is was pretty boring too
A bildungsroman (coming of age novel): The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene (Feb 15-17). Yeah I read this way after it was popular, but books are immortal, so it doesn't matter lol. I enjoyed it (I had already been spoiled years ago what happens at the end), and the movie was really good too!
A book recommended by a bookseller: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Jan 20-Feb 18). This was the next book club book at work, but it matched a prompt anyway. I probably wouldn't have picked up the book on my own, but it was pretty good. It's fun to talk to the book club regulars about books!
A book by a blind or visually impaired author: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Feb 18-21). A group of 80-year-olds in a retirement home help the police solve murders haha, it was so funny! The police officer would be talking and one character would be like "did you have some cake, dear?" I hope the rest of the series is just as good!
A horror book by a BIPOC author: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown (Feb 21-22). This was supposed to be horror? Dead of Winter freaked me out way more lol
A book with the word "leap" in the title: The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List by Sue Campbell (Feb 23-24)
A book about pirates: Cutthroat Island by John Gregory Betancourt (Feb 24-25). When I typed in "Cutthroat Island book" on Amazon, I didn't expect to ACTUALLY find one! It's one of my all-time favorite movies and always will be, so I was very pleased to find a novelization! "Bad Dawg!!!" :D
A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete: South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery by Lynne Cox (Feb 25-28). She talked about Amundsen along with her swims in 28 degree water (WHY??). Amundsen is kinda overrated to me, though he was a pretty good explorer. Scott is just way more interesting to me (Feb 26 was my 6th anniversary of going to Cherry's grave! One of the best days of my life and still makes me emotional to think about <3)
A book with the word "leap" in the title
A bildungsroman
A book about a 24-year-old
A book about a writer
A book about K-pop
A book about pirates
A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete
A book by a blind or visually impaired author
A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author
A book by a self-published author
A book from a genre you typically avoid
A book from an animal's POV
A book originally published under a pen name
A book recommended by a bookseller
A book recommended by a librarian
A book set 24 years before you were born
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
A book set in space
A book set in the future
A book set in the snow
A book that came out in a year that ends with "24"
A book that centers on video games
A book that features dragons
A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours
A book that was published 24 years ago
A book that was turned into a musical
A book where someone dies in the first chapter
A book with a main character who's 42 years old
A book with a neurodivergent main character
A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary
A book with a title that is a complete sentence
A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot
A book with an unreliable narrator
A book with at least three POVs
A book with magical realism
A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
A book written during NaNoWriMo
A cozy fantasy book
A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
A horror book by a BIPOC author
A memoir that explores queerness
A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
A second-chance romance
An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll
An LGBTQ+ romance novel
Advanced
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours
A book with 24 letters in the title
A collection of at least 24 poems
The 24th book of an author
A book that starts with the letter "X"
TWELVE BOOKS IN ONE MONTH heck yeah!!! Most of them were short, but still..so cool! When I told mom how many I read she was like "you're crazy!...but in a good way" LOL. I've read 22 books so far this year :D
A lot of people see my opal necklace and say "it's so pretty! It's bad luck to wear it if it's not your birthstone though." Uh..thanks?? Also, that's ridiculous, and after the 40th time of someone saying that it has gotten really annoying. Just say it's nice and move on lol
28. Do You Believe in Ghosts? Sure, since I've seen one lol
29. Are Digital Photographs Too Plentiful to Be Meaningful? No way! I have plenty of pics of the same glaciers from different years, but they're all meaningful and have fond memories of whatever trip I was on when I look at them. Film cameras were always stressful because I was always afraid I'd run out of film before the trip ended haha
March 1. Can You Separate Art From the Artist? They seem to be..intertwined? They have other traits too, but of course I'll think "Van Gogh!" when I see the Starry Night
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list (Iceland): Outside by Ragnar
Jónasson (Feb 5-6)
A book from a genre you typically avoid: How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy (Feb 7-8). A comic book about the Karluk expedition, where Steffanson abandoned his men and a bunch of people died..crazy
A book set in the snow: Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates (Feb 10-13). This book literally gave me nightmares..everyone was getting their heads chopped off. O_o I usually like locked-in mysteries, but this one freaked me out lol
A book with a neurodivergent main character: I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder by Sarah Kurchak (Feb 13-15). Parts of this book were relatable, like her saying jeans felt like being in an iron maiden, but unfortunately is was pretty boring too
A bildungsroman (coming of age novel): The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene (Feb 15-17). Yeah I read this way after it was popular, but books are immortal, so it doesn't matter lol. I enjoyed it (I had already been spoiled years ago what happens at the end), and the movie was really good too!
A book recommended by a bookseller: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Jan 20-Feb 18). This was the next book club book at work, but it matched a prompt anyway. I probably wouldn't have picked up the book on my own, but it was pretty good. It's fun to talk to the book club regulars about books!
A book by a blind or visually impaired author: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Feb 18-21). A group of 80-year-olds in a retirement home help the police solve murders haha, it was so funny! The police officer would be talking and one character would be like "did you have some cake, dear?" I hope the rest of the series is just as good!
A horror book by a BIPOC author: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown (Feb 21-22). This was supposed to be horror? Dead of Winter freaked me out way more lol
A book with the word "leap" in the title: The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List by Sue Campbell (Feb 23-24)
A book about pirates: Cutthroat Island by John Gregory Betancourt (Feb 24-25). When I typed in "Cutthroat Island book" on Amazon, I didn't expect to ACTUALLY find one! It's one of my all-time favorite movies and always will be, so I was very pleased to find a novelization! "Bad Dawg!!!" :D
A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete: South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery by Lynne Cox (Feb 25-28). She talked about Amundsen along with her swims in 28 degree water (WHY??). Amundsen is kinda overrated to me, though he was a pretty good explorer. Scott is just way more interesting to me (Feb 26 was my 6th anniversary of going to Cherry's grave! One of the best days of my life and still makes me emotional to think about <3)
A book with the word "leap" in the title
A bildungsroman
A book about a 24-year-old
A book about a writer
A book about K-pop
A book about pirates
A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete
A book by a blind or visually impaired author
A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author
A book by a self-published author
A book from a genre you typically avoid
A book from an animal's POV
A book originally published under a pen name
A book recommended by a bookseller
A book recommended by a librarian
A book set 24 years before you were born
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
A book set in space
A book set in the future
A book set in the snow
A book that came out in a year that ends with "24"
A book that centers on video games
A book that features dragons
A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours
A book that was published 24 years ago
A book that was turned into a musical
A book where someone dies in the first chapter
A book with a main character who's 42 years old
A book with a neurodivergent main character
A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary
A book with a title that is a complete sentence
A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot
A book with an unreliable narrator
A book with at least three POVs
A book with magical realism
A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
A book written during NaNoWriMo
A cozy fantasy book
A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
A horror book by a BIPOC author
A memoir that explores queerness
A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
A second-chance romance
An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll
An LGBTQ+ romance novel
Advanced
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours
A book with 24 letters in the title
A collection of at least 24 poems
The 24th book of an author
A book that starts with the letter "X"
TWELVE BOOKS IN ONE MONTH heck yeah!!! Most of them were short, but still..so cool! When I told mom how many I read she was like "you're crazy!...but in a good way" LOL. I've read 22 books so far this year :D
A lot of people see my opal necklace and say "it's so pretty! It's bad luck to wear it if it's not your birthstone though." Uh..thanks?? Also, that's ridiculous, and after the 40th time of someone saying that it has gotten really annoying. Just say it's nice and move on lol
28. Do You Believe in Ghosts? Sure, since I've seen one lol
29. Are Digital Photographs Too Plentiful to Be Meaningful? No way! I have plenty of pics of the same glaciers from different years, but they're all meaningful and have fond memories of whatever trip I was on when I look at them. Film cameras were always stressful because I was always afraid I'd run out of film before the trip ended haha
March 1. Can You Separate Art From the Artist? They seem to be..intertwined? They have other traits too, but of course I'll think "Van Gogh!" when I see the Starry Night