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Just a couple things, off the top of my head🧐, that I plan on taking part in during February. Likely there will be other activities/challenges - I look forward to them all.

Thanks &🥂to all the fantastic hosts! You all do a wonderful job🥳🥳

All the Feb wrap-ups I‘ve missed. For the month I read 18 books/4188 pages (not including ongoing reads), 6 NF and 3 books by Black authors (short on that goal). In #FabulousFebruary I read my four planned plus two more books, and in #20in4 I beat my 20-chapter goal by (finishing a book with long chapters and starting one with teeny ones) reading 52!

#ReadMyRoom #20in4 #BookNookBuddies2022 #FabulousFebruary #Swoonathon #KickTheSlump #SeriesRead2022

Slow reading month for February however, I‘m desperately hoping🤞🏻🙏🏻 that March makes up for it.

Thanks to all the wonderful Readathon & Challenge hosts! I apologize in advance to anyone I forgot to tag. Long week & my 🧠only seems to be partially functional. ♥️♥️♥️

I am so behind on posting everything during febuary. Depression has hit a little harder than I can handle right now.

Thank you @Andrew65 for letting me join #FabulousFebruary
I finished David Attenborough and made a good dent in wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman

Not posting a TBR this time@since I‘m mostly still working through the TBR I posted for #FabulousFebruary. I am going for 20 hours though! #20in4

Renato is murdered and officer Imanol Petafunte will be in charge to investigate the case. In these 148 pages we will see a decadence of a community and in the characters that knew Renato: political corruption, decadence in values and moral, prostitution, racism, prejudice,..I liked the writing style but is some parts, (like chunks of good expressions) but for me as a whole, was sometimes confused because some parts were disconnected😬3⭐️

Mixed feelings. I liked the story, how the author, inspired by a song, create a story about what happened to some pregnant African slave women who were thrown overboard by their owners due to sickness or overboard. You will feel how painful is to remember through Yetu‘s voice, responsible to remember to transmit the history, to maintain their identity, pertinence in the community but so hard😢Some parts for me were isolated from the story. 3.7⭐️

Mix feelings with this novel. There are three different stories that are interconnected as a way to explain the creation of Liberia. I loved the story and the beautiful writing style narrated by the author who has a pleasant, soft voice and was amazing to understand each character. Love Gbessa, the witch. But the use of magical realism in the story in my opinion took some beauty away from the story, was like reading a superhero story😬3.75/3.8⭐️

Inspired by a true event, the author will recreate a story of how would be the life of Mary Lumpkin, a mixed race woman, who had 5 children with Robert Lumpkin, known for his cruelty during his period in that jail between 1844 to 1865. The author provides references of these events and explains what motivated her to write this story. So sad and I know it was worse in the real time. Love the story and the writing style. 4⭐️

Starting this month‘s #20in4 #readathon by continuing to read this month‘s #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead . I‘m entranced by this and absolutely hate having to put it down for IRL distractions (work, chores…you get the idea!).

I‘m hoping to hit 20 hours over the next several days, ticking more off of my tbr stack. Incidentally, I read over 17 hours out of the 20 hours I had hoped to read for #FabulousFebruary , which I forgot the post earlier!