Catching Up and Checking In

Happy President's Day!

And on this celebratory day, (where it should be mandatory that the government give us free cake) I am thrilled to say I've completed my challenge list. No, I haven't completed my challenges, well not all of them at least, but I've finished the list for Popsugar and Read Harder so that I'll stop getting distracted with other books and then hope I can fit them in somewhere. Book distraction is a real thing, and it is a real issue for me. I'm a hopper, so at any given time I'm reading/listening to about four or five books. Truly, this is madness.

Since I've been off the last few days this has been my only goal. Now that I've reached said goal I can go through the process of crossing off the books I've read, updating my Goodreads page (which I suck at on a good day sometimes) and tallying up reading challenges. This will also let me move forward with written reviews of the book, more in-depth blog posts about reading, and hopefully I won't lose my damn mind along the way. February is almost over and I feel that in the shortest month of the year I've truly come up short on my reading goals, mainly due to life and reading distractions.

If you're interested, below is the master list I've come up with. I'm not posting what challenge they fit since I don't want complete and utter spoilers haha, but I think I've come up with a pretty impressive list. (NO REPEATS! That deserves a cake on merit alone!)

XoXo
BrainyHeroine

Title of Book	Author	Page Count
A Moment on the Edge	Elizabeth George	560
Accidental Empress	Alison Pataki	512
All The Bright Places	Jennifer Niven	378
All The Ugly and Wonderful Things	Bryn Greenwood	352
Almost a Woman	Esmeralda Santiago	336
Americanah	Chimamanda Mgozi Adichie	477
Antarctica	Claire Keegan	224
Bad Monkey	Matt Ruff	241
Bear, Otter & The Kid	T.J Klune	350
Behold the Dreamers	Imbolo Mbue	400
Bird Box	Josh Malerman	262
Boy Meets Boy	David Leviathan	226
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War	Giles Whittell	303
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes	464
Caraval	Stephanie Garber	416
Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	288
City of Light City of Poison	Holly Tucker	336
Count of Monte Cristo (mentioned in Butterfly Garden)	Alexander Dumas	1276
Dark Matter	Blake Crouch	354
Eligible	Curtis Sittenfeld	512
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr	Nancy Isenberg	560
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	166
Getting an Academic Job in History	Dana Polanichka	112
Hard Luck: Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost	Lew Freedman	210
Hidden Figures	Margot Lee Shetterly	373
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents	Julia Alvarez	304
How to fight presidents	Daniel O'Brien	272
I Let You Go	Clare Mackintosh	384
January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month that Changed America Forever	James Robenalt	420
Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norell	Susannah Clarke	1006
Julie & Julia	Julie Powell	310
Katherine	Anya Seton	500
Life After Life	Kate Atkinson	531
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk	Kathleen Rooney	287
Margaret The First	Danielle Dutton	176
Matilda	Roald Dahl	240
Missing, Presumed	Susie Steiner	369
Monstress	Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda, Rus Wooton	202
Moongirl and Devil Dinosaur #1	Brandon Monclare, Amy Reeder, Natacha Bustos (illustrator)	24
My Lady Jane	Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows	512
My Name is Red	Orhan Pamuk & Erdag M. Goknar	417
Norwegian Wood	Haruki Murakami	296
Orange is the New Black	Piper Kerman	298
Passengar/Wayfarer	Alexandra Bracken	1018
Personal History	Katherine Grahm	642
Pleasantville	Attica Locke	433
Queen of the Night	Alexander Chee	576
Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	374
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	393
Rise of the Rocket Girls	Nathalia Holt	352
Saffron Skies	Lesley Loko	613
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils	Lynda Pryne	288
Sisi: Empress On Her Own	Alison Pataki	464
Sisters In Law	Linda Hirshman	390
Swing Time	Zadie Smith	453
Tales of a Severed Head	Rachida Madani, Marilyn Hacker	176
The 19th Wife	David Ebershoff	530
The Bear and the Nightegale	Katherine Arden	336
The Book Jumper	Mechthild Glaser	384
The Case of Jack the Nipper	H.L. Stephens	328
The Couple Next Door	Shari Lapena	313
The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next #1	Jasper Fforde	374
The Geek Feminist Revolution	Kameron Hurley	288
The Ghost Bride	Yangsze Choo	368
The Girls	Emma Cline	368
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	156
The History of Wolves	Emily Fridlund	288
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared	Jonas Jonasson & Rod Bradbury	396
The Inheritance Trilogy	N. K. Jemsin	1453
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution	Walter Issacson	528
The Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	610
The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow	206
The Lonely Hearts Hotel	Heather O'Neill	400
The Lost Sisterhood	Anne Fortier	608
The Luckiest Girl Alive	Jessica Knoll	352
The Mercer Girls	Libbie Hawker	430
The Mermaids Daughter	Ann Claycomb	448
The Miniaturist	Jessie Burton	416
The Mists of Avalon	Marion Zimmer Bradley	1737
The Muse	Jessie Burton	416
The Nest	Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney	368
The Ocean at the End of the Lane	Neil Gaiman	256
The Possessions	Sarah Flannery Murphy	368
The Private Letters of Countess Erzesbet Bathory	Kimberly Craft	142
The Rooms	Lauren Oliver	320
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific	J. Maarten Troost	272
The Shining Girls	Lauren Beukes	375
The Silent WIfe	A.S.A Harrison	326
The Star Touched Queen	Roshani Chokshi	342
THe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet	David Mitchell	479
The Trespasser	Tana French	449
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis	Keija Parssinen	336
The Verdict	Nick Stone	512
The Virgin Cure	Ami McKay	356
Tulip Fever	Deborah Moggach	288
Under Different Stars	Amy A Bartol	297
Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead	306
Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula	Enid A. Goldber & Norman Itzkowitz	128
What She Knew	Gilly McMillian	699
Xanadu	John Man	352
You Will Know Me	Meg Abbot	352
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald	Therese Anne Fowler	384