One month into the year, I’ve stayed consistent with my top reading goal for 2017: Read one book per week.
This may not sound like much of a goal to many of my bookish fiends — I mean, friends — who read numerous books weekly; but as an English teacher who often juggles personal reading with class-related reading and mounds of writing grading . . . well, I think one book per week is just right! Normally, I’d hope to accomplish more reading over the summer, but with a little one on the way, I’m not holding my breath! 🙂
In an effort to #readharder, I’ve also planned to intentionally diversify the types of books I read throughout the year. Obviously, I’m more heavily inclined by novels of the fiction persuasion; that’s not necessarily something I intend to overhaul in 2017. That being said, I do want to read a wider variety of fiction genres or topics each month (and I feel I did a pretty good job of this in January — check my pile out here).
Without further ado, I give you the February pile:
This pile has a little bit of everything: Behold the Dreamers is a read-in-progress about an immigrant family struggling to achieve the dream in New York City. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a classic work of Beat Generation fiction, based on Kerouac’s own travels. (It’s also a looooong standing member of my never-ending TBR list.) The Invention of Wings is a bestseller and work of historical fiction (probably my favorite subcategory of fiction writing). And finally, a detective novel and reread: The Cuckoo’s Calling. I plan to save this novel for the end of February, as I intend to read the other two novels in Rowling’s crime fiction series in the weeks that follow.
What’s in your stack this month?
I’ve read three of your four and just finished The Invention of Wings last week and loved it. I’m sure you will get through them very quickly.
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Oh good! I’m very drawn to the title of that book…hoping it’s a good pick!
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I couldn’t put it down. Enjoy 🙂
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