February Wrap-up

February was a bit of an uninspired month as far as reading goes. This was in part because life (ugh… stop being dumb life!) and in part because I have been reading A Little Life, which has been, not exactly a slog but certainly not a quick, breezy read. It’s not exactly surprising then that of the six books I read this month, four were comics. I also decided to give up on one of my reading resolutions (read short stories) because you know what, I just don’t want to read them. In better news: I’m still on track for my overall books read goal for the year; I will be finishing my fourth Read Harder Challenge book in a day or two; and I discovered that I’ve actually been doing pretty well on “read more books by people who aren’t white” resolution because Courtney Milan, whose books I’ve been binge reading, is a person of color.

Books Read

• Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan/Fiona Staples
• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
• Sex Criminals, Volume 1 by Matt Fraction/Chip Zdarsky
• The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
• Fables, Volume 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
• Fables, Volume 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham

Books Acquired

Not much activity on the acquisitions front either. I did pick up Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, but that’s about it.

In the Queue

1. Book 2 of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky – for book club #1
2. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby – for book club #2
3. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay – for the “Read a nonfiction book about feminism” task of the Read Harder Challenge
4. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros – for the “read a book written in the decade you were born” task of the Read Harder Challenge
5. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Sex Criminals Vol. 2 by Matt Fraction
7. Fables Volume 3 by Bill Willingham
8. A Kiss for Midwinter by Courtney Milan
9. Talk Sweetly to Me by Courtney Milan
10. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer