February Wrap-Up, March TBR & Challenge Update

Is it just me or did February just fly by? For some reason my month started off really slow (reading wise) but ended up being super busy. I finished 7 books in my week-long vacation alone, which is a lot! I’m a little late with my wrap-up and tbr so some of the books on my TBR I have already read and finished, and it seems like this month will be an amazing reading month.

What I read in February

• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ★★★★
• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli (ARC, review will be up soon!) ★★★★
• SeQuence by M.L.M. Lorraine (ARC, review here) ★☆
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ★★★★
• Dreadnought by April Daniels (ARC, review here) ★★★★
• Serpent by Sarah Fay Olson (ARC, review here) ★★★★
• The Restaurant at the End of The Universe by Douglas Adams ★★★★
• The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace (poetry) ★★★★
• Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo ★★★★
• An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (buddy read) ★★★★

Look at all those 4 star books! Almost all of the books I read were great! I’m thinking of maybe doing mini-reviews for the non-ARC books, if so these will be up soon.

March TBR

• A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Bernard (finished) ★★★★★
• Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (finished) ★★★★★
• A List of Cages by Robin Roe (finished) ★★★★★
• The Baker Street Peculiars by Roger Langridge (finished, ARC, graphic novel, not yet reviewed) ★★★★
• Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner (finished) ★★★☆
• Geekerella by Ashly Poston
• Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
• Fuse by Julianna Baggott
• (maybe) Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (buddy read)

Some other books maybe? I just don’t know yet. If I will finally buy We Are The Ants, I’ll probably read that one too. Since it’s only the 7th day of the month and I’ve already read over half the books on my montly tbr, I will probably read some more.

My vacation in 7 bullet points

I had a wonderful time in Austria, and I think you can summarise it like this:

• Snowboarding horribly (I didn’t dare to go beyond the baby slope), I fell a lot and couldn’t make decent curves so I gave up after a day. Maybe next time I should take classes and not be stubborn and think I can figure it out by myself haha.
• Skiing a lot. We went skiing about 4 days I think and I love skiing! I’m currently at the level that even black slopes are doable, but blue ones are the most fun (you can go super-fast and you basically have to try to avoid all the slow skiers but so much fun). We went to a glacier, which was fun and super cold (it was about 15 degrees below zero (Celsius)).
• A lot of hot choco.
• READING READING READING. I have been reading so much and I loved it. With barely any internet and only four tv channels to watch, there was not much distraction.
• Some Gilmore Girls (my latest obsession) and this Swedish-Danish show called The Bridge (Bron/Broen). My dad had a dvd of the third season so we watched some of it. And I have to say, although I thought it was boring in the beginning, it has started to grow on me. It’s about a detective Saga (isn’t that an awesome name?!?!) who has autism and she solves murders. It’s not like the usual detective series because it’s one case for 10 episodes. Ooh and I love the intro tune, it’s so calming: Hollow Talk by Choir of Young Believers
• Sledding! This was by far the most fun activity we’ve done. My mom didn’t dare to go any further after like 10 meters, so me , my siblings and dad went all the way down the mountain, which is about 7 kilometers (that’s like 1.5 hours to walk). And then we went back up to do it all over again. I had the best time, but it was so tiring and I still have bruises from trying to brake.
• Food! The food is so good. Toast and kaiserschmarren are the best things for lunch. Kaiserschmarren are sooooo good, seriously. They’re like pancakes but then shredded, with jam and often applesauce.

Challenge update

Title	Author	Pages	Reviewed
All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	530	No
SeQuence	Lorraine M.L.M	291	Yes
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy	Douglas Adams	216	No
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	Douglas Adams	250	No
The Princess Saves Herself in this One	Amanda Lovelace	156	No
Siege and Storm	Leigh Bardugo	435	No
An Ember in the Ashes	Sabaa Tahir	446	No

Which brings me to 282 points! Even more than last month 🙂

I had a great month! Both for reading and personally (especially the ending was great). How was your month? Any great books you’ve read?

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