February 2022 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

22 Books completed last month, 5,670 pages (or the equivalent) 3.6 stars. That’s only 1 book less than last month—between the shortness of the month and the doorstop that I’m reading right now, that is really surprising to me. I’ll take that. Also 3.6 stars? That’s good enough for me.

Tracking the number on my Goodreads Want to Read list is messing with my head, this makes 2 months in a row of adding as many as I read? Humbug. At least it isn’t growing, I guess.

Basically, February was an okay month here (obviously not the case in the world as a whole). Here’s what happened here:

Books/Novels/Novellas Read/Listened to

Still Reading

Ratings

	1		1
	1
	8
	5
	6
		Average =	3.6

TBR Stacks/Piles/Heaps

Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 13
Self-/Independent Published: 9

Review-ish Things Posted

• Catch-Up Quick Takes: I Don’t Have Much to Say About these Recent Books
• Mike Nero and the Superhero School by Natasha Carlow, Kyle Stephen (Illustrator): A First Day at a Great School
• Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, Isabelle Follath (Illustrator): A Tale of Vengeance and Do-Goodery
• Ban This Book (Audiobook) by Alan Gratz, Bahni Turpin (Narrator): A Young Reader is Pushed into Action
• Go Back to Where You Came From by Wajahat Ali: An All American Story
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (Audiobook) by T. Kingfisher, Patricia Santomasso: If You’ve Ever Wondered How to Weaponize a Sourdough Starter, I’ve Got Just the Book for You
• The Lost Discipline of Conversation by Joanne J. Jung: Seemed to Lose the Thread
• FIRST IMPRESSIONS: The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide: A Phillip Marlowe for Today
• The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster: A Gripping Sequel, Stronger than its Predecessor
• Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics by Gareth Carrol: Adding Some Flavor to Our Speech
• All At Sea by Chris McDonald: Adam and Colin on a Cruise with an Inevitable Bother
• The Imputation of Adam’s Sin by John Murray: There’s a Good Deal of Theologizing in a Small Number of Pages Here.
• The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide: A Phillip Marlowe for Today (a follow-up to last week’s post)
• Dead Man in a Ditch (Audiobook) by Luke Arnold: A Murdered Elf, An Old Friend, and a Hint of Magic
• Light Years from Home by Mike Chen: A Tale of Three Siblings
• Under Color of Law (Audiobook) by Aaron Philip Clark, Preston Butler III: A Murder Investigation that’s Darker than Most
• Man Down by Mark Pepper: The Wrong Man in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
• Why bother with church? by Sam Allberry: A Too-Brief (for me) but Solid Introduction to The Church

Other Things I Wrote
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th), I also wrote:

• Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Character Names In the Titles
• Highlights from January: Lines Worth Repeating
• Spelling the month: February
• Ohh, right…Peter Jackson Knew What He Was Doing (thoughts inspired by The Fellowship of the Rings Audiobook)
• Bodacious Creed and the San Francisco Syndicate Kickstarter
• I Was On a Thing: Barbican Station – Episode 13
• WWW Wednesday for February 2, February 9, February 16, and February 23, 2028.
• The Friday 56 for 2/4/22 (MASH by Richard Hooker), 2/11/22 (Life, The Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams), and 2/23/22: (The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide).

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?