What are we reading in February?

Happy February, everyone! What are you reading this month? I'm kicking things off with Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold and already loving it. Please share what you're reading or planning to read below!

Happy February! I am currently reading The Trackers by Charles Frazier, it's a little slow to get going but I still have hopes for this one.

I start the month with 4 books on-the-go: Circling the Sun by Paula McLain is my physical book, The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts is my e-book, and The Promise by Damon Galgut is my audio book. I also picked up a hold at the library the other day which I'm about to start - More or Less Maddie by Lisa Genova.

I’m also currently reading four books:

‪The Mall Walkers‬ by ‪R Brian Howe, an Early Reviewers win
‪The Fox Wife‬ by ‪Yangsze Choo
‪The Bean Trees by ‪Barbara Kingsolver for the CoverCAT and BingoDOG
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Later this month I plan to read

A History of Hazardous Objects by Yxta Maya Murray, another Early Reviewers win
PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon for the NatureKIT
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard for the ColorCAT and BingoDOG
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, continuing the MaddAddam trilogy

I finished Somebody to Love by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne yesterday, and reached in the same bag to get a book about rock heroes, The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson. I'm intrigued that Patterson wrote about Lennon.

Also have on my to-read pile The Queen's Gambit and Bride by Ali Hazelwood, both recommendations.

I'm revisiting The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie.

I just started Good Dirt and so far so good.

BingoDog reads so far this month:
Library Mouse for Writers square
Library Lion for Library/Thing square
Arthur's Teacher Moves In for Profession square

(I finally got a Bingo! Now going for a cover-all! Nine squares left to go.)

I read The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules for our onground book club.

I finished With Winter's First Frost, a novel about Amish people with a focus on two senior citizens who find a second chance at love.

I am currently reading The Poet by Yi Munyol, which a colleague lent to me. It is interesting, but very slow.

I am also listening to The Wrong One by Dervla McTiernan, a highly gripping crime story.

I've begun Misdirected by Lucy Parker. It's an audiobook, which is a format I'm not used to, and I'm finding it a bit difficult to get into. But Lucy Parker is an autobuy author for me, so I'm optimistic that I'll still end up loving it!

Next up for me is Kristen Britain's Mirror Sight, book #5 in the Green Rider series. At 784 pages, I'm sure it'll take a while!

I started off the month with a few thrillers, mostly recently Incidents Around the House for the ScaredyKIT. I'm currently lightening it up with Now Is Not the Time to Panic, and I have Tom Lake on hold at the library. Books I'm considering for Kits/CATs are The Vaster Wilds and The Ministry of Time.

I am reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Legend in Green Velvet.

I'm reading Pamela Frankau's A Wreath for the Enemy for the author with your name bingo square. I've had a few false starts with the Pamelas, including Pamela Hansford Johnson's The Impossible Marriage. Her The Unspeakable Skipton is worth reading, however.

I'm also reading The Sermon on the Fall of Rome by Jerome Ferrari, which is slow going because it's dense and philosophical. It won the Prix Goncourt. The third book I'm reading is Sanctuary by Garry Disher.

My library hold on Mary Balogh's Remember When finally came in, so I'm starting it now!

I've also been reading Lois McMaster Bujold - rereads of Shards of Honour and Barrayar.

I am currently reading The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates and Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor.

I am currently reading The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie and a collection of poems by Friedrich Hölderlin.

I've begun The Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman, book #5 in the Invisible Library series.

I'm just finished Three Days in June and am working on The Queens of Crime, which I am enjoying so far.

I'm reading Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie for my book club next month.

I'm still reading The Queen's Gambit which is a pick up, put down book for me, and A Middle Earth Traveler for the SFFKit challenge. I'm also nearly thru Fire Strike for a LT group read.

I'm reading and very much enjoying Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans.

I'm reading Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell and Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie.

>23 christina_reads: Good!

I've finished a couple: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie for my book club next month and The Sound of the Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey which I found fascinating.

>26 dudes22: The Snail book sounds terrific!

I'm reading Eva Leigh's My Fake Rake, which is not as fun as I hoped it'd be.

I'm reading The Maias by Eca de Queiros who also wrote The Crime of Father Amaro. It's on my wish list (since Father Amaro, which I really enjoyed) and is >500 pages so will be the first entry in my long books category.

>29 pamelad: I've been curious about Eça de Queirós for a long time--looking forward to your review.

>30 NinieB: The Margaret Jull Costa translation of The Crime of Father Amaro is a good read. De Queiros was a worldly, progressive, broad-minded man - sardonic, witty and anti-clerical. His writing style seems quite modern.

>31 pamelad: It does sound really good. Something else to find time for.

I've been reading Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West.

I just read Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier and am in the middle of Sarah Mayberry's Her Best Worst Mistake.

Just finished several for BingoDog, and currently reading Christmas with the Lords and Toad of Toad Hall.