**What are we reading in February?

I can't believe it's February already!

The first book I'll start this month is Raven Boys by Maggie Stievater.

I'm reading Last Year's Jesus, a book of short stories set in Detroit, by Ellen Slezak which I'm really enjoying. I'm starting to like Infinite Jest, mainly because we've been spending so much time together and I've just begun The Collector by John Fowles for the Fowles in February group read.

I just started Faceless Killers by Mankell and in the middle of Mammoth Cheese by Holman.

Still reading snow crash

Reading an ER book A Cast of Stones. I've barely begun Zoo City on my tablet, but the ER book is very good so I'm drawn to that at the moment.

I've started The Beach at Galle Road that I received through the ER program.

I started reading The Spy Who Came in From the Cold today on my lunch break as I couldn't wait until I got home. I love what I've read of it so far - I'm so excited for February.

Rereading Spinward Fringe Awakening. Really enjoying it.

I'm starting the month with Bitterblue the third volume in Kristin Cashore's fantasy trilogy. I have also started A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, a memoir of a boy forced to fight in the war in Sierra Leone during the 1990's.

Anna Karenina and Gone Girl. They make quite a contrast!!!

I'm continuing with Gone Girl although I really dislike all the characters so far. I've been told things change at the "black" page ( start of part 2, I think) and I'm about 50 pages away. But I can't imagine the characters will become likeable. Going to post Jan summary later tonight.

Shh! goofing off at work...

I'm continuing a January read, Moll Flanders - interesting and not sure how I feel about it, and listening to Naked Lunch - interesting and not sure how I feel about it and think I will still feel that way when I'm done on this one.

Today I started a short story collection called The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, which is pretty good so far. I also really like the cover.

I'm still listening to Fire by Kristin Cashore on audiobook and reading an ARC of Orleans by Sherri Smith on my new Kindle.

I'm reading the fascinating memoir, Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill. She was a tree planter for 20 years--a profession that has always intrigued me.

I'm trying to finish up a couple of books I started in January - The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat and Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman.

Last night I started The Best Lawyer In a One Lawyer Town: A Memoir by Dale Bumpers who was an Arkansas governor and served in the U.S. Senate 24 years.

Hi clue! I'm originally from Arkansas and my dad campaigned for Governor then Senator Bumpers. How is the book?

I'm finishing January leftovers: Death Without Company and The Hard Way Lee Child.

re 3 - I read Mammoth Cheese last month and enjoyed it a lot.

I am still reading 2 from January - Gravity's Rainbow (a trip and a half) and Plain Tales from the Hills (some comfort reading.

I have a few books I know I'd like to read this month - Confederacy of Dunces is the readalong in the 1001 group here; the last 2 2012 World Book Night Books I have yet to read: The Vanishing of Esme Lennox and Touching the Void; possibly Jazz and of course some that have been hanging around my house for toooo long.

>1 mamzel:, I read The Raven Boys last month and thought it was a bit cliched, but fun. I'm looking forward to the sequel.

I'm currently reading The Frozen Thames (slowly, since the stories all kind of run together), You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya, and The Midnight Folk - a children's fantasy where the evil governess really is a witch.

I'm still reading The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock, which I started last month.

Reading The Night Circus - 2/3 done, and Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years. Both good, but the circus book is not exactly what I was expecting.

Currently on River of Smoke book two in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy.

Miguel Street and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are at the top of my stack.

#19 Hi xuesheng, the Bumpers book is very good. It is truly a memoir rather than an autobiography, he tells one story after another beginning with his early childhood during the 1930s. Fort Smith is my hometown so I live about 25 miles from Charleston, his hometown, so I'm very familiar with the locales that he mentions. Norman Mailer is quoted on the cover and says it very well: "How agreeable to read a serious politician's memoir and find it as full of wit, bite, scorn, compassion, and insight as Dale Bumpers himself."

I've finished Gone Girl and am starting one of my award books for this month - The Scarlet Thread.

Finishing up a book I started in January, The Game by A.S. Byatt. Next I think I'll start on a book I got from my mom, The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble.

#29 - I heard so many "meh" comments about The Red Queen that I expected to read a few pages and through it in the box for the charity shop. What a nice surprise--I liked it a lot. And promptly went out and bought an armful of other Margaret Drabble books. I hope you like it as much as I did.

I am, once again, starting Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace; I think the length of it intimidates me!

I am half-way through Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and loving it!

Planning to start Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay later today

#27 Thanks clue! I'm going to add it to my TBR pile. I am from the opposite side of the state from you, Paragould. My siblings and Mom are still there.

Reading (but not really enjoying so far less than 100 pages in) kim by Kipling

Still working on Outlander, which can be somewhat silly, but I'm skimming the bosom-heaving parts, and the rest is quite entertaining. Also still working on The Amulet of Samarkand, which I'm liking quite a lot - putting the rest of the series on the wishlist.

I've finished a few short reads already, The House on the Borderland, The Newton Letter, and Quicksand.

I have two more shorties that I'll be starting soon, The House on Mango Street and The Sense of an Ending.

My list for February is

House of Evidence - Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson
Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson
The Spanish Helmet - Greg Scowen - FINISHED 4/5
The Silent Steppe - Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
Small Wild Cats: The Animal Answer Guide - James G. Sanderson
The Donnellys Must Die- Orlo Miller
The Ghost Map -Steven Johnson
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission - Michale Ondaatje
Broken April - Ismail Kadare - currently reading. Novel about blood feuds in Albania.

Finished Orleans by Sherri L. Smith. You can read my review if you like: http://www.librarything.com/work/12994924/reviews/93673727

Now I'm reading Iced by Karen Marie Moning.

I am reading Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Docotorow and Charles Stross.

I'm still reading When Christ and His Saints Slept, and have also started The Frozen Thames for Feb's Random CAT.

I'm still working on Eighty Days and I've started Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast. I'll continue with the audio of King Peggy as soon as I get my iPod back from Apple's repair service.

I've now moved onto The Winter of her Discontent, a historical mystery that will fit out Frosty February theme.

gave up on kim and am now reading the enigma of stonehenge

Working on 4 books right now; The Broken Kingdoms, The Double Blind, The Colour of Tea and Time and Again

I've started White Sky, Black Ice for the RandomCAT. I've not read anything about the Native Americans from that part of the country so it's going to be very interesting to see how much culture is in it. I've heard it described as the Inuit version of Hillerman, but we'll see. :)

I'm starting Psych Major Syndrome by Alicia Thompson.

I am dipping into, and loving a collection of short stories Shiloh & Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason.

Keeping with Fowles in February I'm reading Wormholes

I'm about 60 pages into The rehearsal. Feels german, which I mean as a compliment for a book like this :)

Psych Major Syndrome went really quickly, so I've now begun The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih.

Last night in work I started on Nymphomation, the third in the Vurt series by Jeff Noon. More of a prequel than a sequel though for where it fits into the scheme of things. Also continuing to pick at The Complete Fairy Tales.

Eva, I liked that Stan Jones book when I read it a couple of years ago. If you enjoy it, you might read A Cold Blooded Business by Dana Stabenow for a different look at the same subject, also a mystery set in Alaska.

Cool - putting that one on the list.

I'm really enjoying A Question of Identity.

*Doing the happy dance* Yay! Blizzard of 2013! 3-day weekend! I plan on spending most of it reading. I finished Fire by Kristin Cashore on audiobook and read The Keepers by Heather Graham. I'm still reading Iced by Karen Marie Moning and I plan on reading Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi, Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, and maybe 2-3 kids' books this weekend.

More Fowles, the ebony tower

37 pages into Tigana - curiosity and interest rising!

>54 BookLizard: - I too am planning some major reading between shoveling episodes..

ccookie, Tigana is one of my favorite books. I envy you discovering it for the first time.

I'm at the stage of The Collector where daily activities become more difficult because I can't stop reading. John Fowles wrote a heck of a book. Don't worry. I don't read while driving.

I finished reading The Raven Boys and started The Brides of Rollrock Island. I'm also still reading Zoo City.

58. Oh, I was curious about The Collector before and now after being in love with The French Lieutenant's Woman after less than 1/4 and reading about how much you like it, I NEED to track downa copy and read.

>54 BookLizard:, 57
Booklizard and Betty

How about some major shovelling between reading episodes..

I am reading The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville, and Ice Forged by Gail Z. Martin.

61> I live in a condo so I don't have to shovel until I need to dig out my car Saturday night or Sunday morning! Only about 3 inches so far. Worst is expected overnight. I did some last minute shopping this morning and napped this afternoon. Eating grilled cheese for dinner now, then I'm going to read, read, READ!

I'm finishing Pulse by Julian Barnes. Sadly, no snow here, so no good excuse to hibernate for the weekend. Maybe I'll do it anyway as a sign of solidarity with those who are...

>cookie - hubby went out and moved some of it already, and we're going to clear again after supper. Like Booklizard, we've had maybe 3-4 inches so far. the big worry is heavy snow causing branches to come down and take utility lines out. We've got a generator if we need it.

Finished The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers a Rita award winner and am planning to start Cold Granite by Stuart Macbride for the Random CAT challenge. (Somehow it seems appropriate considering the weather)

ETA: Listenign to gloom and doom on the TV news - some doozy announcers

64> Little Taiko, you're welcome to join us in hibernation!

65> Have you had any thunder snow? I keep seeing flickering out of the corner of my eye. I'm hoping it's just a lightbulb getting ready to die and not lightning or the power about to go out.

I'm planning to finish Iced tonight - also a Random CAT read.

Can't see out of one bedroom window. The wind is blowing from that direction and the screen is covered with snow.

Be safe, everyone!!

I'm about to start Taming the Forest King by Claudia J. Edwards, which I'm pretty sure is not a romance novel, despite appearances!

Two feet of snow in my driveway ... :-( .. it is beautiful to look at though!

I can't really imagine what is like to deal with snow like you guys have to. The last time I had snow that settled in my neighbourhood was back during "The Big Snow" of 1986. On that day I built my first ever snowman and had my first ever snowball fight. I was 28 years old at the time. The snow lasted less than a day before it melted.

Some of the higher suburbs in Hobart (i.e. above about 400 meters) do get snow on a regular basis but I have never lived in those suburbs.

We've had quite a bit - maybe around 12-15 inches (my calculations say that's about 30 cms?) so far although its still lightly snowing. And areas a little north of us got up to 2 feet. The weather guy is saying it could still snow in parts of RI at the rate of 3-4 inches an hour for a while yet. The shape of RI and the bay going up inside can cause wild variations in snow accumulation. I guess the official totals for RI are 18-24 inches.

When I went to bed 6 hours ago, I had 6-8 inches on the hood of my car and the snow on the ground was up to the bottom of the car door. This morning, the hood is clear but the snow on the groud is halfway up the door. A few more hours to go and they're saying we could get 2-4 more inches. I'm hoping the wind changes direction as the storm leaves and the snow blows somewhere else!

>71 BookLizard: - Wouldn't that be nice! At least I'm one of the lucky ones and never lost power!

I hope you all that got snow can enjoy it with humor and don't have to suffer power outages and unplowed streets.

I finished Zoo City and started Old Man's War by John Scalzi.

You know the snow storm is bad when you have to shovel UNDER your car to get out of your parking spot. A neighbor helped push my car out of my spot. The contractors that are supposed to plow our parking spots haven't been around today. I left my car illegally parked near the dumpster in hopes that they would plow my spot. They didn't so I just had to go shovel some more to get my car BACK IN my spot.

I finished Iced by Karen Marie Moning which was good despite how annoying the main character can be. Now I've started Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy.

Trying to decide if I should make myself another hot chocolate with coconut rum.

Trying to decide if I should make myself another hot chocolate with coconut rum.

Sounds like an excellent plan. Not sure where the decision is. I've never had that particular combination, but it sounds yummy.

We're camping at the beach, so I'm having lots of time to read. Finished The Cardinal's Blades last night, and began The Map of Time. Fantasy February!

I've got one story to go in the surprisingly excellent Black Dahlia & White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates and have just started A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory.

Enjoy your snow, everyone. Yesterday afternoon I sat outside in a cardigan in front of a fire and read for a while. It was lovely, but I'm looking forward to snow next year!

I'm really enjoying Old Man's War but took a little time to go through (there's not much reading involved since it is a photographic journal) Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross.

I'm reading Georges by Alexandre Dumas and Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah H. Bradford. Now that I have my iPod back I'm continuing with King Peggy.

I'm about to start Juliet by Anne Fortier in honor of Valentine's Day...also currently reading Wheat Belly on my mom's recommendation.

I picked up a JA Jance JP Beaumont book Until Proven Guilty. I enjoyed it, so then I started Injustice For All. Why do I keep finding myself drawn toto series that contain so many books????

At this rate, I don't know if I'll be able to get around to The Snowman, which I really wanted to, but it's a big boy, so it stays home.

Oh my, I just received notification of library arrivals: Watching the Dark and Touch & Go.

Started reading Franklin Pierce by Michael F. Holt and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia. Need to get back to Anna Karenina too.

I have started reading The Shadow Walker by Michael Walters. It is a murder mystery set in Mongolia.

No blizzard here as such, but steady snowfall for almost a week. This is our first winter in our own house, and we're really getting to know the joys of shovelling snow... I finished the strange and pretty interesting The rehearsal, and am now going to read one of my favorite playwrights: Caryl Churchill: plays 2.

Other places in the country have snow, we just have rain, rain and more rain, with some flooding nearby but not so near to be worrying

I am less than 1/6th of the way through daniel martin at 100 pages...

I've finished Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride and am going to read Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett.

I am reading I Was Dora Suarez.. note to self never ever read whilst eating..

I've started the latest Rebus-installment, Standing in Another Man's Grave and, so far, it's brilliant!

I'm listing to Too Many Women. I'm enjoying it, but the recording is terrible. Also reading No Better Place to Die and Brotherband: The Hunters. Great stuff all around. Oh, and a cookbook on the Kindle, A Taste of Haiti. It's making me very hungry.

I finished The Brides of Rollrock Island and Old Man's War. I'll be starting Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives.

I had to stop reading Tigana for a few days because it was due back at the library. I then started Les Miserables and To Kill a Mockingbird.

I am now, also, back with Tigana since I got it back from the library again! Really enjoying this one!

Change of plans - I thought Black Gold was on the list of books for the YALSA challenge but it's not so I'm laying that aside for now and reading After the Snow which is on the list.

87> Listening to an audiobook is worse . . . you can't skim.

I'm currently reading Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys and One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah Maclean.

I'm currently enjoying Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner. It's a stand alone but DD Warren is featured prominently in the first few pages.

taking a break from Fowles with is that a fish in your ear

For the long weekend, the plan was to finish my Rankin book, but I was just given 17 volumes of Walking Dead, so I'm leaning towards a 100% zombie President 's Day! No complaints about that, though. Hope the rest of you (well, the Americans at least) have an equally great and gory holiday!

I've just finished Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett and have decided to start Riding the Bus With My Sister by Rachel Simon after a great review by Lori (inkernagh).

Having recently finished NW by Zadie Smith, I'm continuing to read A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory and have started George Saunders's new collection of short stories, The Tenth of December and Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer.

I have just started Crime and Punishment, I am allowed to look slightly smug whilst reading right?

101. Yes, you are. You're allowed to be even more smug if you actually finish it.

I'm reading Heat Wave - which is surprisingly entertaining, corny yes but entertaining. Lady Oracle, and The Earth Hums in B Flat, thinking of starting Club Dead this weekend as well.

I am reading a very dated Penrod by Booth Tarkington, and I just started A Long and Winding Road by Win Blevins.

I'm about to start A Walk Among the Tombstones.

I'm currently reading and enjoying Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers.

In the car I'm listening to The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud. (Thanks to Eva's positive review of the audiobook.)

>100 RidgewayGirl: A new George Saunders collection! That is very exciting news!

Just started another of my dad's old paperbacks, Lud-in-the-Mist. I'm about halfway through.

I've just finished Riding the Bus with My Sister and am now going to start The Hunt by Jan Neuharth.

A game of hide and seek by Elizabeth Taylor in the Virago Modern Press edition. Also, I finally got The collector from the library.

I'm reading The Unexpected Miss Bennet and The Slaves' Gamble, and I'm listening to Lost in a Good Book.

continuing my books on writing I've just finished maps and legends by Michael Chabon and The Short Story by Carolyn Lewis and just starting on writing by Stephen King

Reading Sherlock Holmes in America right now. Mostly fun stuff.

Received The hunger games from a Paperbackswap partner and devoured it. Need to go back to all the other stuff I've been working my way through.

Just finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and almost through AIDS at 30. I've just begun A Lick of Frost also...

I'm starting Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger, which should be a fun (and hopefully quick) read!

# 115 I love I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. It's the first book I remember reading in high school that actually made me think.

I can't stop reading the Matthew Scudder series, so now I'm on The Devil Knows You're Dead.

116> I'll be interested in hearing how you like it.

> 117
I LOVE Matt Scudder and I have read all of them.
I have seen Lawrence Block interviewed and he is a very funny man.
Block also wrote the Bernie Rhodenbarr series which is a little lighter and quite humorous and I loved those also.
And then there is Keller, a hit man, who is endearing in spite of his profession!

Having finished Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer, which was thought-provoking, I've now started The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell. Of course, I'm still reading Infinite Jest and will be for some time. I'm also reading Sweet Tooth, a cold war espionage novel by Ian McEwan, A Quiet Belief in Angels and Tenth of December. I'm clearly in the mood to start books, rather than finish them!

Started listening to The Sister's Brothers by Patrick deWitt. It is very funny. I am enjoying it a lot!

#121..ccookie--I agree it is a joy to listen to, another great on audio is Doc the reader Mark Bramhall.

I'm trying out Reunion: A Search for Ancestors by Ryan Littrell. I'd seen several folks in the genealogical community post about it on Facebook. Unfortunately, I think some of them are probably pushing it because it is cheap on Kindle rather than because they've read it. I'm not that impressed at the moment.

I'll also be reading A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages by Andrew Jotischky over the weekend.

I'll probably also begin Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen over the weekend.

Currently reading an ARC for The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen - the sequel to The False Prince. There was one really stupid part at the very beginning, but it has gotten better.

I've decided to start one of my ER books The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister.

I am reading one of my ER books,The Beach At Galle Road:Stories by Joanna Luloff. I just finished another ER book, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri. I really enjoyed the heck out of this book. I look forward to more from her.

I'm reading Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter and Prince Among Slaves and I'm listening to One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. I'm really hoping to finish the first two by the end of the month.

Am trying to finish a bunch of stuff. What's taken my attention most is The girl who played with fire

I just started The Winter of Her Discontent by Kathryn Miller Haines.

I've added a thread of questions based on the great discussions going on in people's threads.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/150467

I finished up Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World and then devoured the first three Bess Crawford mysteries: A Duty to the Dead, An Impartial Witness, and A Bitter Truth. Those are a lot of fun, as is What Angels Fear, which I finished yesterday.

Now I'm trying to wrap up a few books before the end of the month: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss, and A Testimonial to Grace by Avery Dulles. We'll see what I can pull off.

ooh adding Sweet Tooth to my wishlist, sounds just like my cup of tea.

was going to read a maggot but this book is full of spiders jumped out at me shouting Read me! Read me! instead

Finished The collector for the Fowles in February challenge. Am working on The green hat by Michael Arlen.

I am closing out the month with a police procedural, Cold Light by John Harvey and a ghost story, Dark Matter by Michelle Paver.

I've finished an ER and Cat book The Lost Art of Mixing and have started The Hunt by Jan Neuharth and also The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

After a string of rather quick reads, I'm sinking my teeth into something a little more bulky: The half-made world by Felix Gilman.

>137 GingerbreadMan: - I really enjoyed thunderer and plan to do a re-read of thunderer followed by first read gears of the city later this year so will be interested in what you think of this one

I've finished The Hunt, which I didn't find that good, and am going to start The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest while I also continue with The Forgotten Garden.

I started Neverwhere on the bus this morning and am really enjoying it. However, it sustained a bit of water damage on my long, snow-ridden commute home from work (even my very waterproof bag has chinks in its armour) so I have to dry it out. Grumble.

I am finishing the month with This earth of mankind, the first in the Buru Quartet set in Indonesia. Really liking it so far, getting to know the characters and the country a century ago.

I've finished George Saunders' excellent book of short stories, Tenth of December and am currently reading The Liars' Club, a memoir by Mary Karr that is reading like a cross between The Glass Castle and Let's Pretend This Never Happened. I'm also continuing with Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton and A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory.

>142 RidgewayGirl: Really looking forward to your review on Saunders!

Yesterday, I finished Maisie Dobbs, which was okay, and Soulless, which was a hilarious steampunk adventure.

#144, had same reaction to Maisie Dobbs

I just finished To Hell and Back and need to start something new. I'll probably start Carpe Jugulum from the library.

Gritted my teeth and finished Smilla's Sense of Snow last night. Working on The Robber Bride and The Monk, but probably won't be finishing either of those in February.

@ 141 -- How funny! I've read The Mute's Soliloquy, which is Toer's memoir. It's definitely interesting for someone like me, who knows next to nothing about Indonesia!

I'm reading Lessons in French by Hilary Reyl, my January ER win. I'm guessing I won't finish it this month, though!

I've started The Complaints, also working on Watching the Dark before it has to go back to the library.

I've just finished The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Usually on vacation, I have a paper and an electronic book going at the same time. I think I'll start Sunday List of Dreams by Kris Radish for my next paper book and maybe the last Stieg Larsson book The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest for my next electronic one.

Managed to squeak in The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt) which I thoroughly enjoyed until the very end. I did not like the end.

Review to follow

>138 psutto: Very very promising so far. A very original world, an interesting cast and the potential of a nail-biting plot. The pages fly by.

>152 GingerbreadMan: - good to hear!

I've finished this book is full of spiders and read the very brief london's overthrow and am now reading the cosmic connection for a bit of vintage Carl Sagan

Dudes - we read The Forgotten Garden for book group. I really enjoyed it.

I'm reading Aspirin: The Remarkable Story. Interesting - there was a chapter about influenza of 1918 and then we watched Downton Abbey. Funny when books overlap the rest of your life.