February 2024 – What Are You Reading?

Shauna

February 29

I started this month off by finishing one of the books I was reading last month, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. It's a big, fairly dense nonfiction book, so it took me most of January to read. But overall I thought it was well worth it! I learned some very interesting facts about how good exercise is for us.

Here's the list of what I read this month:

Nonfiction

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel E. Lieberman
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr

Fiction

The Cat from the Kimono by Nancy Peña (graphic novel)
As Old as Time: a Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell

Outside of Exercised, I really enjoyed As Old as Time. That one was Disney's Beauty and the Beast told with a twist: what if Belle's mother was the Enchantress who cursed the Beast? But along with the twisr came some very interesting worldbuilding, telling tales of les charmantes, the faerie people the Enchantress was part of and trying to protect. While a tad predictable (I knew who the bad guy was fairly early on in the story), it was still a lot of fun to see how everything would unfold.

Besides the books I listed, I also attempted to read The Sky Vault, the third book in Benjamin Percy's Comet Cycle. But I wasn't able to finish it (in no small part because part of the story dealt with a father passing away).

So how about you? Have you read anything interesting this month? 🙂