What did you read in February?

[ufcasey]

Read anything good?

[meowmaps]

Long Bright River 4*
The Better Liar 3*
One of Us is Next 3*
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement 3*
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution 5*
Someone We Know 3*
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family 4*
Nothing to See Here 4*
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me 5*
Trust Exercise 3*
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington 3*
Followers 4*

[Vespasia]

The Girl in Red - Christina Henry
The Dark Days Club - Alison Goodman 
In an Instant - Suzanne Redfearn T
he Beautiful Mystery - Louise Penny 
Bellewether - Susanna Kearsley

They were all good but Girl in Red was definitely my favorite. 

[travella]

4*
Raising a Screen-Smart Kid: Embrace the Good and Avoid the Bad in the Digital Age
by Julianna Miner

3*
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
The Secrets of Lost Stones by Melissa Payne

2*
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd

[mie]

Truth or Beard by Penny Reid 4*
Kissing Tolstoy by Penny Reid 4*
Love on Lexington Avenue by Lauren Layne 3.5*
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum 4.5*
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa 3*
Permanent Record by March Choi 3*

[mrspez07]

Audio:
Finished the Swan Theives on the 1st - 3*
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates 3*

Read:
Girls Burn Brighter 4*
Consumed by JR Ward 3*
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill 3*
Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwall 3*

Girls Burn Brighter was hard to read because of the disturbing content, but well written and captivating. Everything else was ok.

[litskispeciality]

I don't think I ever responded.

P.S. I Still Love You 4*'s (LOVED this!)
Good Girl, Bad Girl 4*'s (graphic, kinda let down ending, but good read)

5/24 for the year.

[wesleycrusher]

-His Wicked Kiss by Gaelen Foley

-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase (audio) by Douglas Adams
-The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
-First Test (audio) and Page (audio) both by Tamora Pierce
-The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife
-The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker
-The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (audio)
-Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis
-What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
-The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams
*-The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
-Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain by Sarah Vallance
-The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
-Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
*-Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (audio) by Dee Brown
-Someone to Honor and Longing both Mary Balogh
-The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero
-Parenting: If It's Hard, You Are Doing it Right!: Raising Kids with Communication, Empathy and Accountability by Alice Riley

* These are my 5 star books

[rainbowchip]

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan - 5*
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate- 5*
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham - 3*
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan - 3*
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman - 3*
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Stroy That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey - 5*

[minzy]

Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson - 3 stars
Fleishman Is In Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner - 4 stars
The End of Ice - Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption - Dahr Jamail - 4 stars

[tacokick]

I started strong but got sick and didn’t read much towards the end of the month

Faithful Place by Tana French

Half A Life by Jill Ciment

Ghost of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson (bad)

Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane By Kate DiCamillo

Sweet Tamales for Purim by Barbara Bietz

Love and Other Words by Christine Lauren

After Long Silence By Helen Fremont

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Open Book by Jessica Simpson (very good!)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan

Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin

The Prized Girl by Amy Green


No huge stand outs. I heard that Jill Ciment is basically rewriting the memoir I read about her teen years and meeting her husband when she was 16 and he was in his 40s and her art teacher after reflecting on the Me Too movement. Can’t wait for that! In this one she makes it seem like she was the pursuer.

[abs]

Watching You by Lisa Jewell
Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Roomies by Christina Lauren

DNF One Day in December

Twice in a Blue Moon was probably the best of the bunch. My attention level is basically negative right now so I need quick and easy reads.