Taking Stock - February

Total Posts: 20
Total Books Read this Month: 39
Total Books Read this Year: 74

Challenges: 
Audio Books: 5/ 9 ytd
Debut Author: 0/2 ytd
Mount TBR Challenge: 5/5 ytd
Picture Books: 6/15 ytd

The Good: According to Goodreads, I am right on track for my 2013 Reading Challenge.

The Bad:  I did not read a debut this month. My posts fell way off (9) from last month and the number of books I got around to reviewing also fell. I read 39 but reviewed only 8. Yikes! There was a time when I reviewed every book I read and I'm still making my peace with not being able to do so.

The list:
36. Nic Bishop Snakes by Nic Bishop (2/1)
37. Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renée Watson (2/1)
38. The Skull in the Rock: how a scientist, a boy and Google Earth opened a new window on human origins by Marc Aronson and Lee Berger (2/1)
39. Awesome Dawson by Chris Gall (2/3)
40. Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld (2/3)
41. Pathways to the Common Core by Lucy Calkins (2/4)
42. The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Neilsen (2/5)
43. Like Bug Juice on a Burger by Julie Sternberg (2/6)
44. Choosing to Read by Joan S. Kindig (2/6)
45. The Midnight Charter by David Whitley (2/6)
46. Electric Ben: the amazing life and times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd (2/7)
47. Iva Honeysuckle Meets Her Match by Candice Ransom (2/9)
48. Zom-B by Darren Shan (2/10)
49. Desmond and the Very Mean Word by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2/11)
50. Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald by Roxanne Orgill (2/11)
51. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner (2/11)
52. Eternal: Zachary's Story by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2/11)
53. Middle School: My Brother is a Big, Fat Liar by James Patterson (2/15)
54. In the Line of Fire: presidential lives at stake by Judith St. George (2/15)
55. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (2/16)
56. A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff (2/16)
57. Loki's Wolves by K.L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr (2/19)
58.  Ungifted by Gordon Korman (2/19)
59. Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel by Diana Lopez (2/19)
60. How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor (2/20)
61. The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester by Barbara O'Connor (2/20)
62. Polar Bear Night by Lauren Thompson (2/22)
63. Polar Bear Morning by Lauren Thompson (2/22)
64. Lucky Ducklings by Eva Moore (2/22)
65. Aces Wild by Erica Perl (2/23)
66. True...Sort of by Katherine Hannigan (2/23)
67. After: nineteen stories of apocalypse and dystopia edited by Ellen Datlow (2/24)
68. Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the dawn of liberty by Tonya Bolden (2/25)
69. America the Beautiful: together we stand by Katharine Lee Bates (2/25)
70. The Granddaughter Necklace by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (2/25)
71. Dogs on Duty: soldier's best friends on the battlefield and beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent (2/27)
72. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen (2/27)
73. The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech (2/28)
74. Free-Fire Zone (Vietnam #3) by Chris Lynch (2/28)