While January seemed to never end February has seemed to pass by quite quickly.

What I read

I read a lot of titles, though several were fairly short. In total I’ve read 33, which is 8 ahead of schedule. I did badly on the not reading so many books about bookshops and libraries (BABALs?) as I read six… Though I have managed not to borrow anything physical from the library, so I got through three books from my to-read pile. As the pile has over 70 books in it, that barely made a dent. Swings and roundabouts!

• The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac – JK Rowling
• What You Are Looking For Is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama
• In Bloom (Sweetpea #2) – CJ Skuse
• A Better Tomorrow for the East End Library Girls (Library Girls #4) – Patricia McBride
• The Book of Witching – CJ Cook
• Death of a Gossip (Hamish McBeth #1) – MC Beaton
• Enchantment in the Garden – Shirley Hughes
• Public Library and Other Stories – Ali Smith
• The Secret of Killimooin
• The Servant in the House: A Brief History of the Sewing Machine – Frederick Lewton
• The Little Venice Bookshop – Rebecca Raisin
• The Library of Lost Love – Norie Clarke
• Five Have a Puzzling Time and other Stories
• Red, White and Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston
• The Angel of Nitshill Road – Anne Fine
• Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) ) – Travis Baldree
• Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes #0.5) – Travis Baldree
• Saving Miss Mirabelle (AKA The Country Pancake) – Anne Fine
• A Murder at the Church (The Bookshop Mysteries #2)) – SA Reeves

I ended the month still working through:

• Unlikeable Female Characters – Anne Bogutskaya
• The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (The Ministry… #1) – Robin Stevens
• The Seven Year Slip – Ashley Poston
• The Secret of Moon Castle

Five Have a Puzzling Time and Other Stories, Red Fox, 1997

What I watched

• We continued with Only Connect, House of Games and we finished Ghosts. We might try the US version at some point but not straight after finishing the original, so instead we watched Sweetpea, which was nowhere near as brilliant as the books. It ended on a cliffhanger though, so we will be watching series 2 to see what happens.
• I’ve been watching Call the Midwife and also Victoria which I am really enjoying. I do have to pause it quite a lot though to look things up including the royal family trees which are incredibly confusing!
• I think the only movie we watched with Brodie was Moana, which he said was boring despite having watched it all avidly! Ewan and I watched Barbie (finally) which I enjoyed more than he did, not surprisingly.
• My sister and I went back to Ten Years Younger but then took a break to watch the first episode of the Boyzone documentary No Matter What.

What I did

• The fairly miserable weather meant we didn’t get out much at the weekends though Brodie went swimming and to a comic con.
• We did make a trip to the aquarium at St Andrews where for the first time we made use of the fact their tickets are all day tickets. We spent an hour looking at all the creatures then went off for lunch (at Nandos as it’s Brodie’s favourite) then back to the aquarium before having a quick explore of the beach. The beach was very cold and the tide was chasing us in so it really was a quick explore.
• I built my new Lego orchids.
• We had a crafternoon – Brodie made an infinity gauntlet using one of my old gloves and I worked on my mini bookshop scene.
• I made a few more mini books at home and also some at work as I’ve turned it into a craft our customers can do as well.

How was your February?