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My reading challenges were helped significantly by the fact I was "snowed in" twice in Feb, missing 7 full work days. I live in South Carolina, so it does not take much for a day to be declared a snow day. My two favorite books of the month hit both ends of the spectrum: the highly intellectual The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and the extremely pulpy Sea Kings of Mars by Leigh Bracket.

FEBRUARY

Pick and Mix

This Month: 7/12; Total: 9/12

Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson (Lots)

The Telling Le Guin (Books by Women)

The Giver Lois Lowry (Banned; Most Read)

The Swords of Rhiannon Leigh Brackett (SF Mistressworks)

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov (Banned; Guardian)

Vathek William Beckford (Guardian)

The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury (Classics; NPR)

12 Awards/12 Months

This Month: 3/12; Total: 3/12

Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson (BFSA)

The Telling Le Guin (Locus F)

A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson (Mythopoeic)

Short Fiction

This Month: 3/12; Total: 5/12

Sea Kings of Mars Leigh Brackett (collection)

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (novella)

The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury (short stories)

Authors of Color

0/12

The End of the World

This Month: 1/12; Total: 2/12

The Giver Lois Lowry

Marxists, etc

This Month: 3/12; Total: 4/12

Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson

The Telling Le Guin

The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury

The 35

This Month: 7/35; Total: 10/35

Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson

The Telling Le Guin

The Giver Lois Lowry

A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov

Vathek William Beckford

Guardian

This Month: 3/7; Total: 3/7

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov

Vathek William Beckford

The Second Best

This Month: 0/12; Total: 1/12

NEWLY JOINED (in February)

LGBT

This Month: 1/12; Total: 1/12

The Telling Le Guin (Lesbian Protagonist)

Fantasia

This Month: 4/12; Total: 4/12

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov

A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson

Vathek William Beckford

10 books read in February