February Summary of Reading Challenges

Here's Where I Stand on the I Love the Library Challenge

Books Checked Out and Read:

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Boy21 by Matthew Quick
Cordina's Royal Family: Gabriella & Alexander by Nora Roberts
Cane by Jean Toomer
Cordina's Royal Family: Bennett & Camilla by Nora Roberts
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (BCD)

Books Checked Out and Currently Reading

Wild by Cheryl Strayed (BCD)

Books Checked Out and Not Read - Yet

Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
The "I Hate to Exercise" Book for People with Diabetes by Charlotte HAyes, MMSC, MS, RD, CDE

Books Checked Out but Didn't Read

Sorta Like a Rockstar by Matthew Quick
Yoga XXL by Ingrid Kollak
I Love Coffee! by Susan Zimmer

Books Checked Out for School Assignments

Once Upon a Time by John Barth
House Calls with William Carlos Williams by Robert Coles
Made in America by Lisa Malin Steinman
Something Urgent I Have to Say to You by Herbert A. Leibowitz
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford by Wendell Berry
William Carlos Williams, Poet from Jersey by Reed Whittemore
William Carlos Williams' Paterson by Joel Conarroe
The End of the Road by John Barth
Three on the Tower by Louis Simpson

Here's Where I Stand on the TBR Pile Challenge

I've had to edit the original list, I found that there were some books on there that I had read and just forgot about. I think only 2 or 3 books came off the list.

In my book basket:

I haven't read anything from my basket, new books keep finding their way to the top of basket.

Book from my Kindle App

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
More Than One Night by Marie Tuhart

Books from my Nook:

Never a Bride by Amelia Grey
Married by Mistake by Abby Gains

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