February 2015 - To Be Read (TBR)

[ke-sha]

Hello. Have you guys decided on which books to read for February?

Im going to read one of the Winners The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and after that Im not sure.

Are you guys going to read one of the books we voted on?

[The Book Moo]

I'll be reading Fairest by Marissa Meyer when it arrives, there is a diverse range of characters from a different culture than me! And then Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman as I've heard great things about this! :)

[Alex]

[Ana Luisa]

My TBR list is:

1. 20 Mil Léguas Submarinas (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) by Jules Verne - 504 pages (I'm currently on page 62). This book is a classic and was written by a French author.
2. As Memórias de Sherlock Holmes (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 405 pages (I'm currently on page 46). This book is also a classic and was written by a Scottish author.
3. Doze Anos de Escravidão (Twelve Years a Slave) by Solomon Northup - 280 pages. This book was written a person of colour and is non-fiction, which I want to read more.
4. O Jantar (The Dinner) by Herman Koch - 256 pages. This book was written by a Dutch author.
5. A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver - 96 pages. This book was written by an American author and it's poetry, which I hardly ever read.

Total number of pages: 1,433

It's a long list for me but I'm always trying to branch out in my reading (especially with books written by authors with diverse nationalities, as you can see by my list), so I hope to at least start reading all of these.

[Jennie]

I plan on trying to read , , as well as a few different plays from

[Amber (bookstacksamber)]

I'm planning on these three:

[Kristina]

So excited to see everyone participating in this topic! Unfortunately I won't be because school is gonna be hectic this week, and obvious that is my priority! Can't wait to see what you all will be reading!

[Kristina]

Lula wrote: "I kind of picked among my tbr pile, given there are some who have been collecting dust for so long and fit the theme! For this month I picked up: The Diary of Anne Frank, Eat, Pray, Love and a book..."

I have been wanting to read Eat, Pray, Love for a long time! I can't wait to hear your thoughts on it! Good luck this week :)

[Kristina]

The Book wrote: "I'll be reading Fairest by Marissa Meyer when it arrives, there is a diverse range of characters from a different culture than me! And then Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman as I've heard great..."

Noughts and Crosses is supposed to be amazing! I am dying to get my hands on it, so I hope you enjoy it!

[Kristina]

Alex wrote: ""

George Orwell!!! Please tell me what you think of that when you finish it!

[Kristina]

Ana Luisa wrote: "My TBR list is:

1. 20 Mil Léguas Submarinas (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) by Jules Verne - 504 pages (I'm currently on page 62). This book is a classic and was written by..."

Wow that is an ambitious goal! Good luck and keep us posted on your progress throughout the week!

[Kristina]

Jennie wrote: "I plan on trying to read , , as well as a few diff..."

The only one of those I've heard of is Life of Pi, but I hope you enjoy all of them! Good luck this week!

[Kristina]

Amber wrote: "I'm planning on these three:
"

I have been wanting to read all three of those books! Let us know what you think of them! Have a great week and good luck!

[Yasmin]

I'm planning on reading To All the Boys I've Loved Before and keep listening to the audiobook of Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah

[Kristina Marie]

I plan on reading Julie of the a Wolves and Sounder and listening to Roll of Thunder, Here Me Cry.

[Melissa]

I wasn't planning to participate in this month's theme because I didn't get the diversity part. I thought it had to be a literary fiction contemporary about refugees or dark themes about different cultures. I was happy to find out that is not the case and the fact that I own loads of "diverse" books already on my shelves lol. So I choose 4 for this week and I hope I can get to all of them.

African American authors (2) with African American culture or interracial romance :)

An Andalusian Man/Spainard gravedigger

A GLBT Odyssey re-telling:

[[deleted user]]

Here's what I'm planning on reading I think:

[Madi]

I'm reading Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly, Cinder by Marisa Meyer, and The Bane Cronicles by Cassandra Clare.

[Amanda]

It's going to be a very busy week so I'll just set my goal to reading this book.

[Hazuki]

I'm planning on reading Stargirl and Love Stargirl by Jenny Spinelli, The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time and I'm going to try and find and read Wonder by R. C. Palacio (my school library has it) :)

[Souhaila]

I'll be reading

[Sophie]

I'm planning on reading the novels by Ahmadou Kourouma, who is an African writer.

[Charlie]

I'm planing on reading The Book Thief. I doubt I'll finish it in the week, so I don't know what I would read after it if I do :)

[[deleted user]]

I'm going to be reading

[Charlotte]

I'm hoping to get to In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman. I have a pretty big TBR and if I finish everything I may try to pick up some more diverse books from my shelves =)

[Megan]

[Xaviera]

I'm reading all three winners

I'll finish the road which i'm already half way through, and then i'll try to read charlie and the chocolate factory and it's sequel but in spanish cuz i found the copies my mom got for me when i was on primary school and i got nostalgic hahaahha



Maybe i'll add something else if i have time... since i'm on vacations i probably will... :) !

[[deleted user]]

I was planning on reading To All the Boys I've Loved Before when I first found out that February was diversity, and then I bought Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and it's kind of perfect for this theme so I'll be reading those two books :)

[Brianna]

My TBR for this month's read a thon is:

1. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2. To All The Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

I was excited that To All The Boys and Anya's Ghost won because I just bought them recently. I think four is a good number of books for me to read this week :)

[Xaviera]

Brianna wrote: "My TBR for this month's read a thon is:

1. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2. To All The Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

I was excited tha..."

I looooove cinder! <3 I hope you like it ! (unless is a reread, in which case just ignore me hahahhaha)

[Kayla Rayne]

I am going to have a couple of books on hand so I can have a little variety with my diversity. :D

1. Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
2. Middle Sex by Jeffrey Eugneides
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
5. Cinder by Merissa Meyer

[Raciel]

here's my tbr video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubg3...

[Sahiba]

I'm going to be reading the Book Thief. I got it in December and this is the perfect opportunity to read it

[Fatima]

I'll read The Book Thief

[monta]

I'll try to read , and

[[deleted user]]

I`ll be Reading the diversety here is asbergers.

[Jana]

I'll be reading the following books:

1. Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern
4. One + One = Blue by M.J. Auch
5. Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
6. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
7. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

And if I get through all of these or want to switch things up a little I have as back up Seven Novels by Jules Verne which I could choose from or Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

[Lordofandoms]

I´m reading
The rest of the infernal devices series.

[Onka]

I'm going to start with The Help and hopefully by the end of the week I'll get also to Flesh And Blood. I think this theme is great and I'm sooo looking foward to it but it's also quite dense so if I finish these 2 books I'll be more than happy!

[Jeshika]

I've picked 4 books that I'm going to choose from, I definitely won't get to them all but I'm hoping to get at least 2 read. I tried to pick shorter books because of work.

1. Red Dust Road - Jackie Kay
2. Popular Hits of the Showa Era - Ryu Murakami
3. The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind - Meg Medina
4. Wonder - R J Palacio

Also, I might try to get hold of Anya's Ghost and join in with that or reread The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time if I feel like it (which right now I kinda do).

[Brianna]

Xaviera wrote: "Brianna wrote: "My TBR for this month's read a thon is:

1. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2. To All The Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

I..." It's a new read for me so I'm pretty excited :D

[Lily]

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A Little in Love
The Book Thief

[Madi]

anyone know what time zone we start in?

[Ana Luisa]

Madison wrote: "anyone know what time zone we start in?"

I believe you start whenever it's Monday to you.

[Jayne]

I will read "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins (psycho-thriller)... as well as "The Diary of Anne Frank" (non-fiction) and "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel (romance).

[Amber (bookstacksamber)]

Ana Luisa wrote: "Madison wrote: "anyone know what time zone we start in?"

I believe you start whenever it's Monday to you."

Yep, that's right :) I know some of us tend to start the evening of the day before though, so start whenever you want!

[Stephanie]

Love_thg_tvd wrote: "I´m reading
The rest of the infernal devices series."

Those are great books. I recently finished and it was amazing. How do you like it so far?

[Claire]

I am going to finish (I'm about 1/2 way through), and then read

[Lorien]

So the book I really wanted to read I can't get a hold of yet, so for my TBR I'm reading Boxers as the MC is Chinese, Elfquest #3: captives of blue mountain where Cutter's wife is a dark skinned elf of the Sunfolk and the humans are all dark skinnned, Melting Stones as the MC is the world's equivalent of Asian, and maybe Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist, Vol. 7: Heavy Metal Raiders.

[Alice]

For now I'm going to start with , well I will start with that after I finish the last 30 pages of . I also pulled together a pretty big stack of possibilities, which includes and because this week is starting off with a snow day and I'm feeling ambitious.