February.

This might be the most books I have ever read in a month.
The total came to eight.

• Pride and Prejudice     (Jane Austen)     -     I actively avoided this book for year, I avoided anything by Jane Austen really. But I decided to finally give it a chance. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.   

• Sweet Thursday     (John Steinbeck)     -     This is a sequel to Cannery Row, which I read a few years ago. It picks back up with the same characters after the war. John Steinbeck is great. Everyone should read more of his books.

• After the Wind     (Lou Kasischke)     -     Another Everest book. I wrote about it here.

• Legends of the Fall     (Jim Harrison)     -     I had seen this movie, so when I saw the book at a thrift store I thought, why not. However it was a bit confusing. The book was titled Legends of the Fall, and the back of the book had a summary of the story and it was a movie tie-in cover (blaarg). The book was in three parts. I started to read and got very confused, since I already knew the story, that I was reading about a guy getting beat up and left for dead in Mexico. Turns out the book was three novellas that were entirely separate. It was only one of the stories that was Legends of the Fall. Very confusing.

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers     (Katherine Boo)     -     I read this one as a part of a sort of book club thing. I probably wouldn't have picked it on my own. But it was a very good book. It is a non-fiction story about families living in a slum in Mumbai. 

• Walden     (Henry David Thoreau)     -     This one took me almost two months to get through, but I am so glad I finally read it. It has been sitting on my shelf for a couple years now. I have been posting a whole bunch of excerpts from it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Basically, Henry David Thoreau decided in 1845 that he was going to go and live in a house he built in the wilderness. He was a few miles from town and on the edge of Walden pond. The book contains everything from the philosophical reasons he went out into the woods to a description of the squirrels that live in his woodpile. Some of it is a bit hard to get through, unless reading about specifications and prices of cabin building materials is your thing. But he interjects enough of his thoughts and philosophies on life into most of his descriptions to make you glad that you read it. 

• Tender is the Night     (F Scott Fitzgerald)     -     This book was great. It was a bit of a depressing book. But not it an infuriating way like The Great Gatsby. More of a soft sadness that just leaves you a bit depressed when you finish. I sort of very briefly talked about it here.

• A Wrinkle in Time     (Madeleine L'Engle)     -     This is a childhood book I somehow missed during my childhood. Which is weird cause it is the genre I was all about as a child. 

I can already feel that March is not going to be as good of a month reading-wise.

But thats okay. I have been reading like crazy the last two months, so perhaps a bit of a break isn't such a bad thing.