All About Books discussion

What is everyone planning to read in February?

My plans for February:

finish from last month:
✔ Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (Truman Capote) ★★★★★ (4.5)

very likely:
1. The Conference of the Birds (Attar of Nishapur)
✔ 2. Love in the Big City (Sang Young Park) ★★★★ (4.0)
3. The 39 Steps (John Buchan)
✔ 4. Nubia: The Awakening (Omar Epps) ★★★ (3.0)

probably:
1. Praise of Folly (Erasmus)
✔ 2. The Silence of the Girls (Pat Barker) ★★★★★ (4.5)
✔ 3. What Moves the Dead (T. Kingfisher) ★★★★ (3.5)

possibly:
1. The Last House on Needless Street (Catriona Ward)
✔ 2. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (Elizabeth Taylor) ★★★★★ (5.0)
✔ 3. Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel) ★★★★ (4.0)

unplanned:
✔ 1. C.P. Cavafy: The Poems of the Canon (Constantinos P. Cavafy) ★★★★ (4.0)
✔ 2. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (Edgar Allan Poe) ★★★★ (4.0)

Thinking of picking up "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, "Anatomy" by Dana Schwartz, and also "The Silence of the Girls". Hoping they're all great reads!

Damini wrote: "Thinking of picking up "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, "Anatomy" by Dana Schwartz, and also "The Silence of the Girls". Hoping they're all great reads!"

Glad you're thinking of joining Silence of the Girls Damini. It looks really good - I can't wait!

Same, Greg! It's been on my TBR for so long and a group read is the perfect opportunity to get to it hehe

I will finish Die Wahrheit über Eva: Die Erfindung der Ungleichheit von Frauen und Männern and read Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter for the nonfiction group read.

I preordered Radiant Sin and Love, Pamela. Things We Hide From The Light will be available on Kindle Unlimited.

Edit: just got a voucher for a bookstore so I ordered The Nineties and Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men... 😅

Hoping to finish An Arrow to the Moon
then get into our group reads The Silence of the Girls and Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Still to consider, but up to now these are the titles I've in mind:

Holly Jackson A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson Good Girl, Bad Blood
Holly Jackson As Good As Dead
Farian Sabahi Noi donne di Teheran
Mahsa Mohebali In Case of Emergency
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt La parte dell'altro

Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House
Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice
Laura Marx Fitzgerald The Gallery
Winston Graham Ross Poldark
Piergiorgio Pulixi Un colpo al cuore
Piergiorgio Pulixi La settima luna
Alessandro Robecchi Torto marcio

Elisabeth Åsbrink, Abbandono
Selma Lagerlöf, La saga di Gösta Berling

Currently, I am trying to finish up and
because they are already on my list.
I also just got and from the library as part of our group reads.

Considering that I've struggled to finish even one book per month for the last 3 years, this may look overly ambitious. But I am trying to ride the wave of momentum that has miraculously struck me since January. :)
So here it goes:

Fiction
finished in February
✔The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel I 5 stars (that is really the rating for the trilogy, not so much the book alone)
✔The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt I 3 stars (audiobook)
✔Ein Ort fernab der Welt by J.M.G. Le Clézio I 3.5 stars
✔Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt I 4 stars (for group read Southern Lit) (audiobook)

want to read:
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (audiobook)
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Über die Berechnung des Rauminhalts I by Solvej Balle (netgalley)
Frankie by Michael Köhlmeier (netgalley)
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Non-Fiction
finished in February
✔Ayurveda: Ancient wisdom for modern wellbeing I by Geeta Vara 4 stars

want to read:
Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage Your Somatic Intelligence to Find Purpose, Build Resilience, Deepen Relationships and Lead More Powerfully by Amanda Blake
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole LePera (audiobook)