February Review & March Preview

Can you believe it’s already March?? That means it’s time to look back at what we read in February – what were your favorites last month? Here’s the books that got 5 stars from me this month:

February Reads

In February, I read 10 books – 6 audiobooks and 4 print. The links below will take you to the reviews previously posted. Visit this list on the Bookshop page for links to purchase a copy of each yourself!

• 5 Stars
  • Between Heaven & The Real World, Steven Curtis Chapman
  • The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
• 4 Stars
  • Girl, Wash Your Face, Rachel Hollis
  • Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
  • The Seamstress of New Orleans, Diane C McPhail
  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker
• 3 Stars
  • Abe, David S Reynolds
  • A Vineyard Valentine, Nina Bocci
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
  • Jackie and Maria, Gill Paul

My favorite this month was The Bell Jar! I know this has been a controversial book, and I’m still working to write a full review because of that. Plath delivers an honest and poignant look at mental illness and the controversial treatments used both in the time period of the book, and still today. I think it’s most controversial because it puts these topics in your face when most people would rather pretend like they don’t exist.

March Reads

February was a lighter month given the fewer days, but we are back up to 11 books for March! (You can grab your copies of these reads here)

• The Girlfriend Book Club – Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
• Friends & Fiction Book Club – A Cozy Mystery: The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie
• The Booklist Queen
  • Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing (Non-Fiction choice): Jaqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy
  • By A Local Author: The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
  • A Western: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
  • Owned But Haven’t Read: Quentins, Maeve Binchy (also my St Patrick’s Day read!)
  • Animal On The Cover: The Help, Kathryn Stockett
• Additional reads this month
  • Ramadan begins: Independence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Self Development/Career: Start With Why, Simon Sinek
  • Autobiography: Choosing to See, Mary Beth Chapman
  • Historical Biography: Diana, Andrew Morton

Do you have any good reads planned this month? Share them in the comments! I’m always looking for my next good book!