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February 2024 Month In Review

Posted 3 March 2024 in month in review /16 Comments

For this month’s life update, I have more work changes. While my acting term ended on Fri February 9, optional overtime began a week later on Mon February 19. I’m currently doing 5-10 hours/week of OT. Not sure how long it will last for but I’m striving to bring in the extra dollars while I have the opportunity. Of course, the trade off is that I’m not keen to hop on the computer and blog after work. So 8 posts this month is already looking optimistic… Additionally, nothing I’ve read lately has ignited the sort of thinking and reflecting which lead me to write reviews. I gave The Parliament a sporting chance but DNF’d it after about 130 pages. Will that change in March? Stay tuned. (Currently I am engaged in a reread of Nevermoor, which is delightful but again, probably won’t give me anything to blog about.)

February was also my birthday month 😊 I had a lovely weekend spent with friends and family and plenty of good food and drink. I had my parents and sister over one evening. My mom cooked my favourite dinner: roast beef, mashed potatoes, carrots, and Yorkshire pudding. I made mai tais for pre-dinner drink and chai lattes for post-dinner drink. As for bookish gifts, I received J.R.R. Tolkien’s Tales from the Perilous Realm illustrated by Alan Lee. I can finally tackle “Leaf by Niggle”! (which I had to spell out for my sister; she was like “WHAT exactly are you saying is that more than one word??”, lol)

Books Finished

  • Gently to Nagasaki by Joy Kogawa
  • Long Lost by Jacqueline West
  • What You are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
  • Hidden Truths by Elly Schwartz
  • Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Books Reviewed

Posts Written

Challenges Check-In

This section tallies up my annual goals. (Posts and views are the only two mterics which are per month.)

  • 4/30 middle grade fiction novels
    • Not counting rereads in this
  • 2/9 Family Reads
  • 1/6 “I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read that Yet”
    • My hold for Of Salt and Shore by Annette Schaap finally came on, so this is on track.
  • 15/81 books read
  • Reviewed 47%/40% of what I read
  • Reread The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings – have not started
  • 5/8 posts in February
    • Hm, well. If I say 8 posts/month, then after January and February I should be at 16 and I’m at 15… so that’s fine by me 😙
  • 1,858/2,200 views in February
    • I expected a drop off from January (which cracked +3,000), though not one quite this steep. Part of it can almost certainly be attributed to less psoting and blog hopping this month.
  • 1/12 books for 2024 Booktempter’s TBR Challenge
    • I made a graphic for this which I forgot to include in my January wrap up. However, I didn’t make progress on this challenge in February so I guess I’ll save it for another month 😛

On My Radar in March

Representation indicated below AFAIK (I haven’t read these books). Please notify me of any errors or places where I can be more specific.

How was your February? What new books, or bookish events, are you looking forward to this month?

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