TELL ME TUESDAY
NUMBER FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR
LAST. NOW. NEXT.
FEBRUARY READING WRAP-UP
TELL ME TUESDAY is a floating feature where I tell you what I read last, what I'm reading now, and what I will be reading next.
THEMES • BUDDY READ • SLOW READ
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February's theme was Black History Month.
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My March theme is women authors and history.
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A Year of Brontë
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Little House Series Buddy Re-Read
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Martin Chuzzlewit Dickens Year-Long Slow Read
★★★★★
ADULT FICTION
STANDALONE
SCIENCE FICTION
INTERDEMENTIONAL PHYSICS
Published 2020 - Libby Borrow.
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Just a sidenote that I have no idea why readers have shelved this as Horror. If you don't like books that give your brain a workout this book is not for you. I was laughing about this title going from being quite a few weeks wait on Libby to mine in about a week. That many people gave up on it that quickly. Ha ha.
★★★★★
(4.5)
ADULT FICTION
STANDALONE
HISTORICAL FICTION
BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY
HARLEM NEW YORK
LATE NINETEEN FORTIES
Published 1946 - Own Ebook
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Someone on Instagram was talking about this book and it reminded me that I have the ebook. It was my first book for Black History Month.
★★★★
(4.5)
MIDDLE GRADE
LITTLE HOUSE SERIES TWO
HISTORICAL FICTION
BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION
Published 1933 - Own Hardcover
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This was my first Little House series buddy re-read. We read this one first because it's first chronologically.
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This is my 2017 Harper Collins hardcover special edition. I read it while listening to a Hoopla audiobook, because it says it is "revised". There was no difference in the text, so I guess the revision is there are no illustrations.
ANTHOLOGY
VICTORIAN POETRY
Published 1848 - Own Ebook
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I read this for both my A Year of Brontë blog theme and the Massachusetts Center for the Book 2026 Reading Challenge as a book outside my usual genres.
NONFICTION
BLACK HISTORY
ANTIRACIST READING
BLACK CULTURE
Published 2010 - Own Ebook
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I wish I had read this before I read The Street because it would have put the main character's life into even deeper context.
★★
(2.5)
COZY FANTASY
SERIES
Published 2025 - Libby Borrow
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After loving the first two books, this one was a huge disappointment. The series had the only cozies I have ever liked. It felt like the author was pressured into getting a third book written. There was a lot of monotonous filler. It also seemed like he was asked to make it more like those "no plot, vibes only" stories popular with a lot of Millennials; with misused vocabulary and those nonsense similes, where the combinations sound pretty and clever yet are meaningless.
★★★★
MIDDLE GRADE
LITTLE HOUSE SERIES ONE
CLASSIC
HISTORICAL FICTION
Published 1932- Own Hardcover
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This is the second book I buddy read with Jolene for our series re-read. Stay tuned for my book overview with photos of the foods we made which were mentioned in the book found in The Little House Cookbook.
★★★★★
STANDALONE
CLASSIC
Published 1847 - Own Hardcover/Ebook/Audiobook
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This is my tenth time reading it since I was twelve years old. Liis, from Cover to Cover, and I just started our third (almost) annual buddy re-read for Womens's History Month. "Almost" because we read Villette last year for the Bookstagram Which is Better: Jane Eyre or Villette reading challenge. And if you are wondering... for us Jane Eyre was the winner.
LITERARY COOKBOOK
Published 2025 - Kindle Unlimited Free Trial Borrow
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I'm trying to get this read before my free trial ends in a week! If I like it, I'm going to buy the ebook because it's only $2.99. I am reading this for my A Year of Brontë blog theme and will be making some of the recipes from it, so stay tuned!
MIDDLE GRADE
STANDALONE
CONTEMPORARY
REALISTIC FICTION
DISABILITY
DEAFNESS
Published 2019 - Own Ebook
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This will be my first book for April Disability Awareness Month. Because most people seem to pick books about mental health issues and autism for Disability Awareness Month, I make sure that I read books about physical disabilities and non-autism cognitive conditions like Down Syndrome.
FEBRUARY READING WRAP-UP
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BOOKS READ
FIVE
ARCS
NONE
PHYSICAL BOOKS
ONE
EBOOKS
FOUR
AUDIOBOOKS
NONE
MANGA - GRAPHIC NOVELS - COMICS
NONE
MIDDLE GRADE
ONE
YOUNG ADULT
NONE
ADULT FICTION
THREE
NONFICTION
ONE
RE-READS
ONE
MY FAVORITE BOOK IN FEBRUARY
★★★★★
2026
YEAR TO WRAP-UP DATE
TOTALS
10
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PERSONAL CHALLENGES
NONFICTION 2/12
MIDDLE GRADE 2/12
NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST NATIONS AUTHORS 0/3
MUSIC 0/1
PLAYS 0/1
BACKLIST ARCS 0/3
CLASSICS/VINTAGE 5/12
RE-READS 3/12
FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 1/12
NYT 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 1/3
BOOKER PRIZE FIRST PLACE WINNERS 0/3
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MIDDLE GRADE - 2
YOUNG ADULT - 1
ADULT FICTION - 5
NONFICTION - 2
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GRAPHIC NOVELS/MANGA - 0
AUDIOBOOKS - 2
EBOOKS - 6
PHYSICAL COPIES - 2
BORROWED - 5
prompt for February, a book outside your usual genre, completed!
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I read Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; AKA Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. I don't care for poetry much, and Victorian poetry is definitely out of my wheelhouse.
What are you reading? Tell
I loved the Little House books but never read Farmer Boy (or if I did I read it once and didn't care for it). I should pick it up. Good to know revised doesn't mean text revised. I would have hesitated to pick that edition up. Too bad about the Travis Baldree book. I liked the first book but didn't love it and haven't rushed to pick up the second book. I like a lot of the cozy fantasy that I've read so I do plan to continue the series. Maybe I'll just read the second book. I'm not much of a poetry reader either. I think the only poet I've ever really loved was Edna St Vincent Millay but it isn't a genre I've really explored. I've had a rough week or two with reading but thankfully seem to be back on track and am enjoying my books again.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few years ago, around the time I first started blogging, I read a post about the insensitive and sometimes derogatory content in the Little House books related to Native Americans and people of color. The blogger was all for publishers being forbidden to publish the series any longer, which I don't understand how that wold be accomplished. Back then I had been thinking more along the lines of just changing terms like "injun bread" to Indian bread, and deleting sentences calling Native Americans "savages". After re-reading the first two books, my thoughts are that maybe a combination of word swaps and annotations could be used. The only instances I have found so far, that I feel need to be deleted, are a reference to "savages" and a song Pa sang about "the darkies". If these were Young Adult books I'd say leave everything as is and use endnotes, but elementary school kids most likely wouldn't bother with reading endnotes. I know the word choices about Native Americans get worse in Little House on the Prairie; which is up next. When we finish the series I am going to write a post about this type of content in the books. 📖
DeleteI too never re-read Farmer Boy, which is funny because this time around I preferred it to Big Woods. 🐄
I always hate not having much motivation to read. I'm glad to hear you are happy with your reading again. 😊
Little farmer Boy and Song For A Whale have great covers to them. I fell and hurt myself early Monday morning so I've been doing no reading for a week because I hurt my shoulders. But I have been watching The Handmaid's Tale.
ReplyDeleteOuch! I hope you are on the mend. 🙁
DeleteI haven't seen the new series for A Handmaid's Tale, but I loved the older movie. 📺