What are you reading in February?

Could it be possible that it's almost the 2nd and no thread for February? I didn't see one started already.

I have on tap for the next week or two:

Bleak House this will take some time
Indemnity Only
Miss Pym Disposes
Wolf to the Slaughter and The Veiled One

Forty Words for Sorrow
Lonely Hearts
Rough Treatment

I'd better get started!

Hey Lisa! Thanks for starting the thread.

Just finished The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig
Still listening to Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Starting Indemnity Only, Romancing Miss Bronte and The Thirteenth Tale.

Is it me, or are none of the touchstones loading?

I started T.H. White's The Once and Future King this afternoon.

I finished Little Princes and The Magician's Nephew last week. Still need to write reviews of both. I started China Cuckoo on Sunday and Bleak House yesterday. Not sure if I will be able to do the two books at once because Bleak House will likely take all my daily reading time if I am to finish it by the end of the month.

This week I am reading Miss Pym Disposes, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. I may also start The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin.

I'm starting off the month with The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig.

I curled up last night after a stressful day getting my daughter admitted to the hospital with a comfort read, Understood Betsy. Just what I needed. Before I knew it, I was already almost done. I just love that book. If I ever make it to Vermont, I will demand a visit to a one room school house, a county fair with homemade donuts, and an apple orchard.

I'm about halfway through The Color Purple.

I've made a start on my favourite story that I've never read, The Count of Monte Cristo. I've read and seen quite a few adaptations but never read the original. I may pick up some others before finishing or just see how I get along with this one.

I'm reading Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye.

I'm reading several books at once, but pleased that I'm making good progress on Les Miserables. Also on the go among others are Native Tongue and The Marbury Lens.

Given up on my non challenge book City of Snakes and I am reading Simon Pegg's autobiography Nerd do Well in anticipation of his new film: Paul.

I finished Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart on Wednesday, started Angels of Destruction flying home from London on Wednesday. I was really enjoying it, but then I left it in the seatback pocket on my last leg home!!!! Darn! So I started Travellers in Magic by Lisa Goldstein yesterday, and Nothing...Except My Genius by Oscar Wilde this morning. I'm going to start a bio of James Madison this month also, and finish the complete adventures of Sherlock Holmes this month too.

Oh, and I'll have another copy of Angels of Destruction by tomorrow...so I'll finish that too.

I'm reading Exhibitionism by Toby Litt. Starting the short story On the etiquette of eye-contact during oral sex on the underground home from work was somewhat awkward.

I have 2 on the go. The Blackpool Highflyer, a fun thriller set on the railways, and Ghosts of Spain, a travel/ history book about the Spanish Civil War. Both are very good and I plan to spend the weekend eating churros con chocolate (fried doughnuts which you dip in thick hot chocolate) and reading them :)

I am almost through Adam Bede and have just started on Something Missing which thus far is hilarious.

I bought The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage some time ago, based entirely on the cover (oh, right! Like you've never done that.) Now I'm discovering whether or not that was a bad idea.

15 LOL. I love seeing what other people are reading and that title would of made me laugh. Watching people read a Kindle is soo boring.

I have thankfully finished Simon Pegg's autobiography Nerd Do Well which was not my thing at all and I am now reading Yesterday Will Make you Cry by Chester Himes. It's the original version of Cast the First Stone which I just finished... interested to see how they compare.

I'm just starting Now and Not Yet by Jennifer A. Marshall.

I finished The Color Purple and I've started on Swiss Watching by Diccon Bewes. The Color Purple deals with some pretty heavy issues, so I was ready for something a little lighter. Swiss Watching is working out nicely for that purpose.

I'm reading The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston now. I need to fill my Newfoundland spot in my Canadian challenge! I have a few others lined up to read so I may start one of those as well, but for now I'm going to try to stick with reading only one. (That reminds me that I think I failed to update my current reads collection!)

I've started Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming. I'm so addicted to this series!

I'm in the middle of Mariana by Monica Dickens, which I really like so far!

I am about to pick up The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - I just hope my expectations aren't too high. Also while searching for a small book to accompany me to the doctor's office, I grabbed Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker and it certainly kept me engrossed while I endured a long wait.

My strategy of reading a short, easy book and a long, involving book simultaneously has been working well--I'm nearly done with True Grit but still making decent progress on The Fatal Shore (which is quite interesting, but in a different way.) I'm reading at a good clip so far in '11, I'm quite optimistic about actually finishing the challenge this time...

I have now moved on to The Lacemakers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri.

I just picked up The Survivor's Club: The Secrets and the Science That Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood.

Starting Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

I've started reading A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick and I'm still reading The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage. Hmmm, I'm sensing a theme.

I have started The Mysteries of Udolpho again, I wasn't in the mood a few weeks ago when I started. Very melodramatic so far, I keep waiting for a monster to jump out from the pages! Still reading Ghosts of Spain, non-fiction book. The last chapter I read was how the Bikini saved Spain.

I'm just about finished In the Bleak Midwinter and I am just beginning Blues Dancing.

I have a few books in progress:
A Game of Thrones for Fantasy February
The Art of Travel for TIOLI book with embedded word
Traveling with Pomegranates - started a while ago, if I finish it in Feb it can also count as a TIOLI book in the travel category.
A Book of Luminous Things - an international poetry anthology

I am finally starting my Reading Through Time Challenge book, The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons.

I've picked up my Valentine's Day read. Wuthering Heights: the Wild and Wanton Edition by Annabella Bloom and Emily Bronte. It certainly is quite the eyebrow-raiser.

Oh my, Victoria!

I've just begun The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen, in which the brothers, Depression-era bank robbers, begin the book by waking up in a morgue. It has really grabbed me.

36 - Alison, I cannot wait to hear what you think about The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers! I loved Mullen's first novel The Last Town on Earth. Why my local library doesn't have a copy of Mullen's second book just baffles me!

ETA: Got so carried away forgot to mention that I am now reading Frida's Bed by Slavenka Drakulic, a story focused on the inner life of artist Frida Kahlo.

I'm behind on my planned reading for the month, thanks to an unexpected hospital stay last week. I finally finished the book I expected to finish last Monday - Swiss Watching - and I'm getting ready to start My Confederate Kinfolk by Thulani Davis. I'm also way behind on thread reading, but I'm trying to catch up!

I'm reading Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa for my Author Theme Reads category (he is this year's author). I've also started The History of the Peloponnesian War for the group read, and am re-reading Northanger Abbey for my Jane Austen Revisited category. All are excellent.

I'm continuing with A Fountain Filled With Blood and I am also enjoying Gangster.

I read Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter years ago and loved it. I will have to dig that up for a re-read.

I really enjoyed Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, too. It did mess with my head though, especially at the end! I've just finished The Mysteries of Udolpho, so would like to reread Northanger Abbey, but my copy is in the UK.

I have just started Raffles, a gentleman burglar. Very funny and lighthearted, perfect after finishing a Gothic novel and a non-fiction (the very well-written Ghosts of Spain. Imagine a Holmes and Watson setup, except instead of helping Holmes with crime solving, the narrator and Raffles are the perpetrators.

I feel like I've been living underwater -- The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers had me living the life of a Depression-era bank robber and now I have to return to daily life.

So I'm returning to The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage and I'm beginning The Writing Life, which has already explained a great deal about Joyce Carol Oates view of the world.

Finishing The Hound of the Baskervilles for a Green Dragon group read and sort of reading Sense and Sensibility for a RL book group. Nowhere near done on that one. Also reading Twinkie, Deconstructed. It's more fun than I expected. And it always makes me kind of hungry, which I didn't expect either! My kids think that's funny. I hate Twinkies!

I'm having trouble concentrating on Kim, so I've switched to On the Edge by Ilona Andrews for the time being.

I've given up entirely on The Doctor's Wife. I usually like to finish everything I read, with the promise of writing a scathing review getting me through more than one stinker. I couldn't do it with this book. Reader beware.

So I've started Dying Light because I can count on Stuart MacBride not to disappoint. I'm also reading The Storyteller of Marrakesh.

Oh, I love Stuart MacBride!!

I am still reading The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons - a huge book. This morning I also picked up The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, a novel about Malaysia during World War II.

I've just finished Just as well I'm leaving: to the Orient with Han Christian Andersen by Michael Booth and In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut. I've got Gabriel García Márquez's The General in his Labyrinth on the go now.

I'm currently concentrating on The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda by Peter Bergen, but also reading Red on Red by Edward Conlon, an LTER book which has the beginnings of a literate, dense suspense novel of two very different detective partners in NYC. If it maintains its quality it'll be at least 4 stars and maybe more. Before the end of the month I need to read the next installments in The Landmark Thucydides and Maps of Time, my two year-long reads. And last, but not least, my current read-in-the-car book is Elfego Baca in Life and Legend.

I am listening to The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

Reading a Christmas present from a dear friend, The School of Essential Ingredients.

I finished Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress this morning and I've started Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America. I'm also getting ready to start Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

After finishing off The Count of Monte Cristo I've not got a clue what I want to start on next. In the meantime I've just read the 2nd of the 9 short stories contained in Minority Report. A quick tale about a man accused of being a machine imposter.

I've started a collection of short stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer.

I'm going back and forth with:

Out of the Deep I Cry
Bleak House this may go on for a while

The Girl With No Shadow

I just finished The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys. I appear to be on a WW II theme right now, unintentionally, as my next book is The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean.

I just finished The Storyteller of Marrakesh which just took me a long time to read. So far this year I've had no ability to stick with a book that requires any sort of sustained effort. But I did finally get into the story.

I seem to be on a Fforde kick. I finished Lost in a Good Book and have started The Well of Lost Plots.

Recently finished The Metamorphosis by Kafka.

I am now reading Christopher Brookmyre's Country of the Blind which is a fun read. I also started The Maze Runner over the weekend and it has totally hooked me.

I've just started reading Louise Ure's Forcing Amaryllis. It's set in Tucson during the summer, which makes it an excellent end-of-winter read.

I'm reading Death and the Running Patterer by Robin Adair.

#50 VictoriaPL- I enjoyed The Monsters of Templeton but loved her short story collection, Delicate Edible Birds.

#62 VioletBramble, I saw that collection and wondered about it. Glad you give it a thumbs up, I will add it to MountTBR.

Had a slow reading week, but finally finished Anna Svärd over Afternoon Tea at classic Stockholm café Vetekatten yesterday (yay for a free monday!). Now starting The last wish, which seems pretty promising!

I'm reading Funeral for a Dog by Thomas Pletzinger, which is an odd book, by turns fascinating and unreadable and Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead.

I am starting in on To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming.

Just beginning Changeless by Gail Carriger, and I'm excited to see where it goes!

Just finished Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and starting on Caveat Emptor. Still working on Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America.

One category that I haven't cracked open yet is Coffeetable books; so I've decided to start on Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses. Falling Water is nearby and I've really enjoyed my visits there. I read a bio of FLW last year, and boy what he character he was! And a great architect.

I'm devouring To Darkness and to Death and I am having a heck of a time keeping the various mothers and daughters straight in The Joy Luck Club.

For a bit of lighter reading I have started Anne of Green Gables on my kindle. Why the touchstones are being tricky on this one I have no idea.

I'm so excited to be starting All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming.

I'm in the middle of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa-Puffs by Chuck Klosterman.

Starting Elfland by Freda Warrington. Not sure what category it's going into, but I'll wedge it into my challenge somehow!

On a long flight tomorrow, and I plan to crack open Understanding Relativity and also The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebeard.

I just finished Mockingjay, but I'm looking for something new. I'm going to look in to the suggestions here.

Depending on how it goes, the book I've just made a start on may necessitate a change to my categories. Picked up Perdido Street Station and if I really like it then I may read all of the Bas-Lag trilogy instead of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. This will give me a chance to read Cryptonomicon before I get to those. Also thinking of swapping a couple of categories around for number of books sake.

I just finished Tom Perrotta's Election, which was both similar to and very different from the movie. I'm also reading So Many Ways to Begin, which is gentle and gripping and my Early Reviewer book from last month.

Nearly finished The Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which is a fun urban historical fantasy which much action, politics and the sadly all too common vampire/werewolf tropes. Then I am onto a heavy month of Guy Gavriel Kay :) but what to read 1st?!