February Reading Wrap Up

 So  February was a bit of a slower reading month for me.  It is of course, also only 28 days long. I feel like given 2-3 more days I might have finished off at least the one ridiculous romance I've been dipping in and out of all month!

Things at work have been super busy, and I was very sick for a week or so, and that did not improve my reading opportunities at all! 

I finished 14 books in February.  One was a 53 page novella,  which maybe should count more as a short story. 

February was a HIGH QUALITY reading month.  Almost everything I picked up was polished and dense and required me to engage a bit more heavily than some of my usual fare. I really enjoyed almost everything I read as well. 

I think if I had to pick a favorite I'd have to put Cat Rambo's  You Sexy Thing  and John Chu's The Subtle Art of Folding Space into a cage fight and see which won. 

Thankfully I'm non-violent and the two can just share a spotlight. 

Oddly with February being Black History Month, I did read a lot of diverse books.  I do try to read diversely all the time, but I was also fortunate in that many of the books I had on hold by diverse authors happened to pop up as available this month. 

So.... 

Books in Translation: 

1/14   or 7% of February's reading. SO LOW!  I read The Plotters by Un-Su Kim  and it was FANTASTIC.  I can see this a a taut little mini-series. 

Books by Diverse Authors: 8/14  - 57%  Over half the books I chose this month were by Diverse authors. 
   This was the month to be reading diversly and I somehow managed to get a lot of books from the library that fit the bill. The number might actually be a bit higher, but some authors don't entirely put all of their specifics out there for the world, and so if I am not totally sure, I just count them in the less diverse pile. 

Non-Fiction: 1  book- 7% 

This is the sole non-fiction book I finished.  TO be fair, I picked up several more and kind of DNF several of them,  Boring... and bland.  One was about physics but the guy just kept making Star Wars jokes and I was over it after a few chapters. 

Books that relate to my Outer Space Theme: 8/14  or 57% 

I really am enjoying this theme.  

March may be jam packed full of reads, mostly because I have several books that I started in February and am slated to finish in the first few days of March, giving me a  bit of a Head Start on things.  I struggled a bit in February with "Overconsumption"  borrowing tons of books from the library only to have them ride around in the car for 3 weeks... unread.  So hopefully I will either be able to read more, or, restrain myself a bit in the library, though I definitely want to find a bit more translated literature to pump up the volume!