Goodbye, February!

Phew! That “shortest month” of the year sure did feel very long. Personally, I blame the Russians.

My reading was pretty decent this month, though! For a change, I read a fair amount of YA books and enjoyed many of them. I did not get to the second book in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, which was sad.

I also requested a smol handful of ARCs from NetGalley for the first time in ~8 years, and I read/reviewed some. I can’t decide if this is going to continue, since it does make reading feel a bit more obligatory than I feel a hobby should. We’ll see.

All that being said, here’s my February retrospective, featuring statistics, goals check-in, and more!

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Reading Stats (for the nerds)

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February Bookish Goal Check-in

I’m doing a new thing this year where I pick 5 books off my to-read list every month and try to prioritize them. Let’s see what books I picked for February and how it all went.

— Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — read 02/16/2022
— Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston — read 02/06/2022
— The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi — read 02/12/2022
— The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney — read 02/02/2022
— Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira — read 02/06/2022

OVERALL SCORE: 5/5 books read!

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All the February books!

And here’s a an overview of all the pretty books I read this month:

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New Books on My Shelf

Because I went absolutely nuts last month, I didn’t acquire many new books at all in February. Which is a good thing! Here’s my small (but nevertheless exciting) haul from this past month:

— Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart; fantasy
— Barbarian Alien by Ruby Dixon; sci-fi romance
— The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi; literary fiction
— Pachinko by Min Jin Lee; historical fiction

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And that was February 2022!

Check out my March Prospectus to see what’s coming up next month!