The Books I Read - February 2025

February was the month I was really focused on recovering from my health stuff in January. I didn't sit down a read as consistently as I'd have liked, but I always had an eBook and an audiobook on the go.

If you look at this month's author cloud, it's very funny how tiny Victoria Goddard is because "The Tower at the Edge of the World" and "Aurelius (to be called) Magnus" were probably the two most memorable books, for all they were only a few pages long. Victoria Goddard has definitely grown to be one of my favourite authors over the last few months.

The mysteries were alright. I continue to struggle with Louise Penny, just from the mix of Canadiana, warm comfort, and gritty murder. The Daisy mysteries by Carola Dunn are definitely giving me the "I ate too much of that" feeling you get if you eat too much popcorn and I didn't really find much to love in "The Case of the Murdered Muckraker" (although the audiobook narrator really didn't make the American accents fun listening).

I revisited "Altered Carbon" for the first time since 2019. The world is very interesting and provides a natural environment for a Noir mystery to unfold. On this read through I found that the plot didn't really engage me and the use of Noir tropes didn't flow well into the plot and the world building. Having started on its sequel "Broken Angels" I also feel like there's just some first-time author in "Altered Carbon" which grated for me.

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Stats for February (Year To Date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 12 (23)

Pages Read - 3117 (6650)

The Books

A Brush with Shadows by Anna Lee Huber	Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below by Martha Wells
The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman	Komi Can't Communicate (Volume 30) by Tomohito Oda
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers	Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
The Hangman by Louise Penny	The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Carola Dunn
Komi Can't Communicate (Volume 31) by Tomohito Oda	Aurelius (to be called) Magnus by Victoria Goddard
The Tower at the Edge of the World by Victoria Goddard	Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

February 2025 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 9 (11)

Author - books read - pages read

Anna Lee Huber - 1 - 431 (4 - 1571)	Becky Chambers - 1 - 336 (4 - 1492)
Carola Dunn - 1 - 273 (1 - 273)	Iona Whishaw (1 - 409)
Katharine Schellman - 1 - 327 (1 - 327)	Louise Penny - 2 - 497 (2 - 497)
Martha Wells - 1 - 234 (1 - 234)	Richard K. Morgan - 1 - 544 (1 - 544)
Susan Cooper (1 - 363)	Tomohito Oda - 2 - 402 (2 - 402)
Victoria Goddard - 2 - 73 (5 - 538)

February 2025 Author Cloud

Publication Decade

1970s - (1)	2000s - 4 (4)
2010s - 4 (10)	2020s - 4 (8)

Source

Audible - 1 (4)	Kobo - 5 (8)
Libby - 5 (9)	Libro.fm - 1 (2)

Formats

Audiobook - 3 (8)	eBook - 7 (13)
eBook Comic - 2 (2)