Books Bought, Books Read: February 2021 (Black History Month)

Books Purchased February 2021 

1. The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett. (audible audiobook). 2 February
2. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears. (kindle). 3 February
3. Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn. (kindle). 10 February
4. The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor. (kindle). 10 February.
5. Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt. (audible audiobook). 22 February.
6. Pink Me Up by Charise Mericle Harper. (hardcover from amazon). 21 February.
7. Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig. (audible audiobook). 23 February.

 

Books Read February 2021

1. The Dead Are Arising:The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne. (kindle and overdrive audiobook). 640 pgs. 640 running pgs. 1 February.
2. Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey. (kindle and overdrive audiobook). 224 pgs. 864 running pgs. 2 February. VERY INTENSE.
3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. (kindle and audible audiobook). 350 pgs. 1214 running pgs. 5 February.
4. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. (kindle, library hardcover, and overdrive audiobook). 207 pgs. 1421 running pgs. 6 February.
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. (libro.fm audiobook). 223 pgs. 1644 running pgs. 7 February.
6. Democracy in Black: How race still enslaves the American soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (audible audiobook). 306 pgs. 1950 running pgs. 10 February.
7. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. (kindle). 226 pgs. 2176 running pgs. 10 February.
8. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia. (kindle and audible audiobook). 224 pgs. 2400 running pgs. 11 February.
9. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds. library hardcover and overdrive audiobook). 316 pgs. 2716 running pgs. 13 February.
10. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. (kindle and audible audiobook). 272 pgs. 2988 running pgs. 14 running pgs. 14 February.
11. Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley. (library hardcover). 168 pgs. 3156 running pgs. 15 February.
12. The Watsons Go To Birmingham — 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. (kindle and overdrive audiobook). 224 pgs. 3380 running pgs. 16 February.
13. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. (overdrive audiobook). 306 pgs. 3686 running pgs. 17 February. A novel in verse.
14. Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander. A book mostly in verse. (kindle). 320 pgs. 4006 running pgs. 18 February.
15. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. (kindle). 240 pgs. 4246 running pgs. 19 February.
16. Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess. (library hardcover). 464 pgs. 4710 running pgs. 19 February. A novel in verse.
17. The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka. (library paperback). 128 pgs. 4838 running pgs. 21 February.
18. Silver Screen Fiend: Learning about life from an addiction to film by Patton Oswalt. (audible audiobook). 222 pgs. 5060 running pgs. 23 February.
19. A Promised Land by Barack Obama. (Kindle). 768 pgs 5828 running pgs. 28 February.