What I read in February:

Winger by Andrew Smith

* A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh

The Lion Seeker by Kenneth Bonert

The Last Enchantments by Charles Finch

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

* The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

* Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

* This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett

We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler

Family Pictures by Jane Green

Wake by Anna Hope

*Nonfiction

Well, lookee here. I kinda read a lot this month. I didn’t expect that since I read a few chunksters and have been busy with school. I guess this goes to show that I will let NOTHING GET IN THE WAY OF MY READING! (Except for those months when I get sucked into some series on Netflix.)

Picking favorites is so HARD. But I’ll do it. For you. I hope you’re happy!

My favorite nonfiction was The Worst Hard Time. I should really stop complaining about the amount of snow we’re buried under. It could be dirt. The people who lived through that time are heroes. Seriously.

My favorite fiction was Shotgun Lovesongs. It’s raw, it’s real, and it’s like a love letter to my home state. Beautiful!

What was your favorite February read?

Here’s to an amazing March!

A powerful suspense story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack 

While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, three hundred pounds of fury, is attacking the family’s campsite — and pouncing on her parents as prey.

At her dying mother’s faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family’s canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe runs aground on the edge of the woods, the sister and brother must battle hunger, the elements, and a wilderness alive with danger. Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Anna’s heartbreaking love for her family, and her struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore.

This is a story with a small narrator and a big heart. Cameron gracefully plumbs Anna’s young perspective on family, responsibility, and hope, charting both a tragically premature loss of innocence and a startling evolution as Anna reasons through the impossible situations that confront her. 

Lean and confident, and told in the innocent and honest voice of a five-year-old, THE BEAR is a transporting tale of loss — but also a poignant and surprisingly funny adventure about love and the raw instincts that enable us to survive.

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